Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1881, Page 4

= 'y . | of Washington was lteclf a great mistake. It y fl '11 _ .| confers no valuable privileges npon our flah- b 2 g 73 ermen, especlally sines the mackerel have P o deserted the Gulfof St. Lawrence and moved QUM OT SUBSCRIFTION, furtlmr'{umlh. opposit the New England * const. "The remission of duties on Canndian Y MAM—1N¥ ADVANCE—POSTAAE PREPATD, | fiah will amount in wwelve yemis to 84,000, Jantty eultiam, ane een 000, which, belng added to the 25500, ity hid KRy an e 1 00 awarded at Talifax, makes the g i E e, Rt yon sum of 80,500,000 prld by the people of the Bundny,’ 18-pake editlor , por yea 4 ® [ United Statos In compensation for a worth- W PITTON=TOSTPAID. o | less concesslon. 'The object of the frauds YL S o 5.00 | discoverad by Urof. THnd wns to diminish "“;“‘“‘""""""\"“’- b the apparent amount and value of Canndinn eeimen coples sent frev. R Uivw Tost-OMico uddress In fall, inctuding County | OXPOTIA to the United States, and conse- and Stuto. R e :muntlyluhlcrcnms the n\m;‘ey lmlemnlzl}::o Jtemittances mnv ba madn either by dral - b paid by the Iatter to the former. The o 3 i Ton:0ipee "':;:';:;;:'::';:fzfl‘::f;m neourtsie { orroneons statlstles thus cut both ways, and Palir.ariivored, Sunday oxceptod. 28 contanerwook. | Iad n double-vdged effect, Prof. Baird In 'J:!Ir-'lflllvmd-flunldlng'lnvll'lfllag_-l_'}‘c_a‘!ll-\vgl;_"flll the samo Interviow mave tho interesting ddrens LTIBUNE CosT Ty v that Mr. Ford, the person dircet] ¥ @ hontborn-ta. Chlcagoy, | NOWS that Mr. y pers y cormorMadin Sto At charged by Prof, ind with faldfying tho POSTAGE, statistics nsed at Halifax, {s lkely to bo the s new Drlush Mintster at Waghlngton, to sue- Entered at the Post-Oficeat Cileago, Tty a2 Seconds | goed Sl Edward ‘Thornton, 1€ the Britlsh =y o dndiis g aEAd Governmont should have the impudence and Forthe henet of our patrons who do e e af e TINK througts tho matl, wo bad tasto to make such an n))uohmnunt, it wive hierewith the transient rato of postago: is to be hoped that our Government will Hlamedios TerCorv | promptly demand that it be rescinded. Fight and Twolve Page Papor.. Bixtecn I'ago P'apor... « . Forelgn. Fight nnd Twelvo ago T'nper. Elxtoom!’ngo M'avs TRIBUN, b ik alleged ' paradox * ereated by the di- vision of the State into new Senntorial dls- tricts whils one-lalf the Senate holds over fs cleared awny by tho applieation of the stmpla rule that each holid-over Senator rep- P CUICAGO TRINUNE hns estatilshod branch | yogentg thadistrict trom whichi ho was elocted, scalpt v subscriptions und advertises Oflicenar oo s amd In which is residence may be placed, N 0om 2 Tribune Bullding. F.T Me- | 1t 13 concelvable, hut it Is hardly probable, FADDEN, Manasor. 9 that two hold-over Seunturs might be put HY 5 —-Allnn’ tean Nows A‘;(f"fl 5 “N,,:‘:,‘,’,‘,‘,":‘“ AU (MRS tnto the some distrlet, but the Legislature A,u:m(m.l Tng~Ameriean Exchange, 49 8trand. | ciun avoldl this casily In drafting the new sys- URNLEE. G LG Ascnts tem of npportionment. No Senatorinl olec WASHLNUT! 1IN ateoets tlon will Lo held In 1883, ns Tuk TnuNe hag already stated, in any distriet including PR e the humediate torvitory (ward or county) in BMeVieker's entre. vl vor Sq ] Madison street botwoen Stats and Dearborn which a hold-ov bcn:\}ur reslded when Fnangoment of Annle Pixiey. “Mliss, tho Child of | eleeted, or now restdes. The working of the he Slorrus Afternoon und evening, rule willbe seen In the simplest form fn Cook County. 1n 1860, the county was on- titled to one Senntor, and W, B, Ogden was clected from the First Distriet, or Cook County, for four years. In 1881, the Legis- Iaturc apportioned the Stute anew, diviling Cook County into two Senatorfal districts, nwmbered 24 and 25, Mr. Ogden resided fn tho new Twenty-tifth Distriet, and no elec- tlon was held in that district in 1862, But there was an election In tho Twenty-fourth Distriet, and Mr, Ward was chosen to repre- sent It in tho Sennte. A similar case n the country is thus deseribed by tho Galesburg Reglster: In 180, under the nct of 183, wo presume, ‘Thotnns I, Piekett, of Kook [sland, wns eleeted State Sonator from tho distrlot vomposed of tho Counties of Knox, Stark. Henry, ftock Islaud, and Meveer. In 1862, under tho det of 1651, A, C. Masan, of Knox, wus clected State Senator from tho distriot composed of tho Countles of Kiox, Fulton, avd Masan. Then, ench hold-over Sen- ntor represented tho distrlet {n which the coun. 1y wid placed fn which he huppeued to live. Weo fhave thought that the clootions under tho new apportionment would bu governod by this rule, ‘There Is no confllet between tho rule lnid down by the Register and that originally given by Tik TrinuNe. It evidently mis- coneeived tho meaning of the words **im- mediate territory,” which were used to des- ignate either the ‘ward or the county In whieh o holding-over Senator might reside, and which determines what districts shall bo represented Ly such Senators and what ones shall elect new Senaturs. Grand OpcrneIouse, Clark strect, opposit new Court-llouse. Engage- ment of Mr. aud Mra, Goo. 8. Knight. “Goverament Bonds” Afternoun and evening, Taverly's Thentre. Perrborn street, corner of Monroo, Engagemont of Her Majosty's Opera Company. Afternoon, * Linda di Chamounl.” Evening, * Rtigolotto,” | Ilnoley*s Theatre, inndolph sircot, hotween Clark and La Salle. My Goraldine.” Afternoon and ovening. Olympie Thentre, Clork street,between Lake and ltandolph, Varloty entertalpment. Afternoon and ovening. Aeaidemy of Musio, Tlalsted street, near Madinon, Wost Sida, Varloty ontertninment. Afternoon and evenlng. Centrnl Muste Finll. Corner of Rtandolph and State strocts, Musical one tertalnment by Bdounrd Hemenyl Afternoon snd uvening, STINGS. THE BEE TEE CLUR DOMING PARTY AN- naunced for Wedneadny Bvo. und postponed on A Count of atarm, will Bow bu Hold &% & Valentino Party On Monday Eventg, e, T, at Uwsloy's Uail, - Mome L und griends will pleire ot furgot 1t ‘Muslc by 1’FOF. Carr 8 Orchenten, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, IssL Mn, Cox, of New York, will carry off the honors of this Congress on the Democratle side unless he shall makesome fata! blunder in the few remalning days of the session, 1{o s distinguished himself by his persistent efforts to sccure an inyestigation of the 1ial- ifax frauds, by moving a reasonable and non- purtisan apportionment bill, and by oppos- fng the Infamous River-and-ITarbor grab. 1ils speechés have been both wiso and witty, In many respeets Mr, Cox I8 the best equipped Demoeratio menmber of the Uouse, 1o hus had long exnerionce, his record 13 clean, and Tiis mind Is one of the clearest and most net- ivo in Congress. If he had, with all his other good quatities, hablts of,close avplleation to public business he might easily be tho Ieader of his party in the Hou THE FLORIDA BISBEE CABE. . The cfforts of Mr. Disbee, contestant for thy Congressional seat of the Second Ilorida District, to taketestimony in lils case |s result- ing in developments of a most seandalouschars neter, 118 agents are nrrested on trumpod- up eharges, and run out of the State, and in- thnldated, and threatened with denth in tho event of thelr return to conduct the ense of their olfent. Every means famillar to the bulldozer i resorted to by Blsbee’s oppo- nents to prevent him from securing the nee- essary testimony to prove that the sitting member wus elected (?) by fraud and *counted in* by rseals, Mr. Bisbee asserls that he can produce overwhelmingly con- clusive proof of theso fnets, but when he offers to do 8o he is met at the outset by such meflw}ln of opposition as would bo resorted 1o only by thieyes and scoundrels, While these shamoful outrages were being perpetrated In Floridn, the Southern Demio- eratle members of Cougress were engnged, on Thursdny, in o tremendous strugklo to securo vast National appropriations for the Improvement of the rivers and harbors of the South, ‘The point was' well made by Mr. Tobeson, that such ayproprintions should be made conditional upon “q recognition of the National Constitution and an observance of Natlonal lnw.” Of courso this point was met by the confident assertion of o Southern firc-cater that * the people of his section were Inw-ablding, law-loving, and peace-loving.” 1low I3 such duplicity to be dealt with? Ilow are Southern Congressmen to *be cured of tho vice of lylng? 'Fhere Is lttle hope of puttlng n stop to hull- dozing, murder, ‘und election frauds in tho South, so long as with one voles tho South- orn poopls and thelr political representa- tives, in and out of Congress, porsist in deny- ing that such outrnges exlst. ILivery news- paper in the land yesterday told the story of the outrage on Bisbee's nttornoys in Florida; and, side by side with the story, was the ln- pudent, lying statement of Shoestring-Dis- triot Chalmers to the offcet that **the South- e peoplo are ns gentle as lambs™! This ls tho wmisery of the Southern situation: that the slnvory réglme, which macde Hars of those hold In servitude, made lurs also of those who so held thom fn bonds, It has been proven n hundred-—nay, a thousand—ilmes that political erimes abound, and that the vlee- tions In the South aro all tainted with fraud, but no Southern Congressman over rises to speak that he does not, either in exordlum or peroration, solemnly assure the Ilouse or Senate, as the cuse muy be, that the storles about erime and fraud among * my people are falso and slanderous, And, gonerally, ho wishes to swear * “fors God ™ to the truth of hisdenial, After having sol * my poo- ple” right, tho speaker urges upon his Northern brethren the proprlety—uay, the Justico—of “ coneiliuting * the South with un approprintion! Reunlly, somo of tho SBoutliern peopls are playlng the rola of the red mun, They re- wind onvof the Indians. After n massuere of white settlers hns ocourred on the plalns, the “ big ” Chiefs go to Washinston with n “ good henrt” to see the * Great Father,™ "They promise not to allew the * young bravea” to kil uny more palefuces, recelve an appropriation,—consisting of money, blankets, guns, beads, and things,—and go back to their * people” and huve & great powwow, with plenty of firc-water, ‘I'his i3 precisoly what the Confederates have been dolng lo these dozen years! ‘Thelr hands aro red with the blood of innocent men,—~black and white Republicans,—mur- dered for daring to nssert themselves us the politieal equals of thelr savage oppressors. And as they have nover for a moment censed to commit murder, so they have never ceased to lle about it, ¢ Under thase clrcumstances it is idle to look for reform In the near future, It requires o certaln sort of brutal courago to comnit murder; but the vice of iylng leaves to Its :’h.'llm not uio redeoying quality of head or ienrt, " No wonder Northern Congressmen despalr of sefuriumg the South, when thuy constunt- Mrcir has been sald in somo of the news- papers of Senator Conkling’s excessive de- mands on the new President; but thoy do not compnro unfavorably with Mr. Jay Gould's nttempts to confrol the Government, Mr. Gould fnsists upon his right to fill the vacancles on the Supremo Iench, to appolnt the new Secretary of the “I'ronsury, and to pack the United States Sennte with his ereat- urés, Senator Conlkiing is o public man and presumably makes iy interests subordinate to Lhose of the people, and Jay Gould only mixes in politles to serve his own private ends, and promotes them by the questionable, It not corrupt, use of money, It might bo well In the future for the people to pay n lit- e more attention to what My, Jay Gould is dping and less to the vival mmbltlons of Senns tors, who, whatever thelr politieal nspira- tlons may be, are not suspected of dighonor- uble motlve: Auvour five squaro miles of the City of New Orlennsars ab tho present writing undor water, and 50,000 people hnve been driven out of thelr dwelllugs, like s0 muny wharf-rats, by tho overflow, The flooding of the city at this unusual season 18 in part, If not wholly, due to the closing of the Donnet Carrb crevasse, und tha partial damming of the opening into Lake Pontchinrtraln. It this openime hiad been left, as it was, o mile wide, and snotlier outlot had been made Into Luke Borune, ns recommended by Capt, Cowden, It is probable that tho whole clty would now be fres from water, "Iic Now Orlénns Pleayune virtually admits as much when it charges the overflow upon the building of the Jetties, Tt suys on this point: Thero hos beon & great strain upon tho lovees of tho lower delta sinco tho vonstruction of tho etties ut the mouth of tho Misslssippl River, ust year domonstrited that the purishea south of New Orlyans bavo hud tho huzards of inunda- ton lnrgely! Inerensed by tho great work which haw made Now Orloans the decpest port on the American continent, In other words, every vffort to bunk up the great river hus resulted in nerensing tho chanees of overflow, and making the pro tectionof the ulluvial lands more difieult, The iden of confiniug tho enormous power of tho Misslssippt betweon two mud walls, and elovating the mightiest’ streum on this continent on u yvldge of lund many feet nbove the' surrounding country, i3 simply prepostorous. It may transform New Or- lenns, us the Pleayune says, iute “tho decp- ©st port on the Amerlean Continent,” but it will inovitadly produce this result by making the strects of the city navigable at certain seasons of the yesr. ‘Iho common-senso ‘plan is to let the surplus water run uil the quickest way, through Lake Pontehartrain and Lake Borgue, instend of damming It up . through another 100 miles and scttlng back the wuter us fnr uorth ns Calre Prov, SPENCER F, lainw, the Secretary of the Smlthsontun Institutlon, has been often referred to by the Canndlan otllclals as deny~ ing the truth of 'rof. Hind's sllegutions that there wero frauds Inthe fishery-statistics pre- sonted at Halifax. But it appesrs that he has done nothing of the kind, On the con- trary, he hus aflirmed the substantial cor- rectness of Prof. Hind's statements, Prof, Baird was himself among thosp who were docelved by the erroucous tigures used In tho Cenadlan *“case.” Lo now explaing that they were sworn to, and on that account overpow- ered the Amerlean statlstics, which wero ap- proximately correct, but wero not supported “ by amdayits, Trof. Buird further sald, in eonversation with a eorréspondent of the World, thut the fishery cluuse ot the Treaty / THE Cavawvw TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FUBRUARY 12, 1881—SIXTEEN PAGES. ly witnesa exhibitlons of Southern lmpu- tlence of demand for appropriationa, eonnled with tho utterance of the most glaringly ap- )mrcut‘mlfiuluimls.—mlsuhoods a8 palpable v In an unclouded sky. respectablo practics of tho law as tho prac- tlee of ahortlon does to the practice of medi- eine; and yet o committen of the Lepislature ~ull lnwyers—throw around It their protect- Ing nrnie, and nsist that this miserativ mock- ery of even the forms of Inw and justice shall continye undisturbed. Wo undoratand that thera have proceeded from this county cortain protests ngalnst any reform In this peaetlce, mul that theso pro- tests huve oven romdered some of the repre- sentatives of this county cfiorts to obtain relief, thut some of the memborsof this county have openly taken shles In the defensvof tho present raseally condition of things. these members elaim to be lawyers? Do thoy claim that tho forms of faw may be used to nbuse, haraas, and oppress the general public without redre —y GOMPULSORY EDUCATION, The nction of the State Logislature is such a3 gives promise that o Inw will be ehneted at this sesslon providing for the compulsoery | educatlon of children in this State. Marshull's bill §s clearly free of all objection, Its requiremonts arg certalnly within the de- mands of the intelligence, civilization, nnd humanity of the nge, and no person ean offer any rational objection to it, the parents, gnardiang, or other persons lay- Ing control of children between the nges of 8 nnd 14 yoars shall bo required to send such children to some public school for at twelve weeks in each school-year, the school- yenr beglnnlng In September. At least six weeks of thig attendance shall be conseeu- ‘I'his attendanco is to bo enforced under penaltles, unless sueh ehildren are excusald by reason that theirbodily or mental conditlon i3 suclins to prevent their attend- ance or applicatlon to sttdy; such attend- bo excused in easo such elilliren are taught at private schools or ot home such branches ns are ordinarily tought in primary schools, or have aiready acqulred such knowledge as fs obtninable In Where no public school is taught threo months during the year within oneand a half mites, then such attendance shall not be compulsory. . The bl provides also that where tho school nuthoritles aro satisfied that the parents have not the means with whieh to purehnsg necessary school-hooks, suclh au- thoritjes shall furnlsh such books free of coust to such children, Ilere, thon, is the presentation of the ques- tlon entirely free of every arbitrary rule, save the singlo one that the ehila physically and mentally ablo to nttend school shall at- tend some school, publie or private, or be taught at home, for at least threa months in When the parent profers {o teach the ehildren tho ordinary branches of primary educationt at home or at private school, he ean do 8o, or he ean send Lthem to the public school, aml If he bo not able to purchnse books they shall be furnished him free of All that the luw demands s thut the children in the State between 8 ond 14 years of nge shall not bo denfed thoe privilege of instructlon and education at least equal to that obtainable in the public schools, Any mnn not & barbartan, nnd fit to have the eon- trol of children, who will refuse this much to those In his chargo Is not o fitthne guard- Such n denial I3 but another form of cruelty, tho effects of which witl follow the ehild through life. Consldoring the facllitles of avtalning iustruction at this day, it is erlminal for nuy parent o compel children to grow up In lgnorance of the contmon branehes of eduention, and whore this re- fusal to send thom to school s willful and deliberato 1t should Le punished like any other act of oppression or cruelty, drop hor sitly think that the Western noblest tyne of a heathen man on the earth, The twaddle of these Magsnchusntta philan- thropliats, headed by the wealk-minded Sena- tor Dawes, Is getfing to Lo diszusting ns well ns tuelr nssaults npon Secretary Sehurz, If nny criticlsm 13 to be made upon the lat- ter, Itisthut ho hns been too lenlent and philaithropleal In his troatment of them. ‘rha way to treat Indians Istotakeaway thelr ponies, thelr powder, and thelr guns, and com- pel them to settle down and work and be- have themselves, a8 other people do. - It they have the quick intolleots, and elear minds, and passtonate love of hone attributed to them by *“It, IL," thoy can enstly do 8o, they won't da It let thom be punlshpd. they won't work, lot them starve, I wWon't oboy the Inws, let thom suiler the pen- alty. Ontho other hand, If they conseit to &0 to work and behave themselves and lend peaceful nd Industrious lives, and white men interfere with thew, then punish the white men to the extremest degree aflowed by nw, 1tis thne for the usept scnse in- stead of sontiment In deallng with the In- dinns, and that waudiin philunthropists shall not bo allowed to interfero with the Govern- ntiimentality® and egnse to Indian was tho ag the sun at nonnd MORE TROUBLE FOR ENGLAND. There seems to bo noend of trouble for the English Government, growing ont of the possession of go many colonies seatteroid abl over Christendom and Inhablted by nll sorts of peoplo from savages up to the civilized, No sooner Isshe out of trouble with one colony than another Is in n rompus, nnd sometlmes two or threo of them et nto trouble all at once, so that the lot of the Brltish soldier [s not a happy one. Now he 18 in Indin, and then m Afghanistan, By ho time he has whipped the Afghnns he Is sont for In hol hnsteto go Lo Capo Town to thrash the Zulus or the Boers, and by the tinie ho hns arrived thore hie s wanted way up under the Lquator to fight the King of As soon nshe nrrlvea there n lowl call comes from Burmal, and so he 1s kept Jumping from one place to another, 1t wns only o short time ngo that the Zulus Ikept I busy. No sooner wns Cetywayo capt- ured than Secocent broks loose. o was driven away the lasutos roso ngalnst him, and 88 soon ns they were fairly in the field the DBours were on tho rampage, demanding thelr pro-slavery independsnes. T'he dual uprising has beeome so formidable thnt troops have been dispatehed there from all quarters, - In this cheorful situntion the Ashuntee King, one Koellee, who has before this led the Mritish some merry dances through his hot amt fever-breeding jungles, dectures war against the English beeauso the Governor of Cape Const will not surrender aenptive who 1s elnimed to be an Ashantee Chlef. KingKoffeo will probably be brought to his senses and lose his mud towns, as ho dld In 1874, but he Is no fool, and will probn- bly make 03 strongn (lghtas he did In that year. After his subjection by Sir Garnet Wolseley ho made great show of admiration ek so that until ho had weak in thelr 1t Tenmtres that DrNNiNa, of Raclne, Wis,, propounds thig questlon: 1. 1ins mipority roprosentntion scoured a falr roprosentation of tho minority In Iilinols? Ang, =1t has, The minority {s now fully and falrly represented. Southern Illinols now hotd the following Under the ofd principle of majority monopoly they would ba totally unrepresented, although casting mors than one-third of sl the Republiean votes In the The Rtevublicans ot seats In tho House. T MeCune, Fulton County District, ryer, Peovin District, ance i3 further to "Tazowoll Distrlct. aloy 13, Harvey, Sigeno B, ok, Coles Co Gearge . Ghaleo, Shelby Distriet, Rovert MeWilltams, Litehlleld District, Junes M, Garlund, Bungamon Distriot. Linue C. Chundtor, CnssCounty Distriot Josuph N, Carter, Quiney Distrlot, John L. Underwont, Pike Distriote “‘Omind Plerson, Greene County, Huitour Cowan, Macoupin, Jdusaen M, Littlo, Fayetto Diatrict, P Jieob C, Otwlin, Crawlord County District. Churles T Btrittan, Jefferson County Distriet, Mito Erwin, Williumson County Districl, laane M, Kelly, Perry County District. Homor il Blnek; Calro Distriot. Thus, there are elighteen Republicans now sitting In the Leglslaturo ns representatives of Central and Southern Illlnols districts which formerly were solidly Democratles An equal or larger number of Demoetats represent the minority in the northern part The person who says that tho miunority Is not fairly represented eithor does not know what he Is writlog about or is eare- less of the truth to a degree that must as- tonish hlmaelf when he refleets upon his statements, M, Claronce Dennlog further onnty 1istrlot, for Lnglish pubtic schools. he was not satisfied live there nnd : male and female, fortho Ashantee Amazons aure nearly as flerce and warllke s the wales, Drliled In Xuropean fashion, his next move was to get TSuropenn breech-londing rifles for them ot lmproved deseriptions, and they were taught tho use of thom. This ac- complished, King Coffee, or Koflee, walted his opportunity to use them, and the op- portunity has now come, and his dusky war- rlory, male and femalo, are on the marelh, and we shanll probubly soon hear the Governor of Cape Const Justlly erying ments, nlthougn some British gunbouts are ernising off the const. As gunboats nre of little account In reaching King Coffee, or Koffeo's, henclinen, miles distant In equa- for reinforce- 2, Has minority representation glven tho Stato A bottor average cluss of legistutove? Aus. 2—The minority Representatives at Tenst are fully tho equals of tho majority Rep- resentatives m Intelllgence, eapaclty, and In- tegrity, Somumen of unnsual ability have been elecled by minority votes. It whil bo admitted In Springtield by everybody who knows anything about the facts that the Re- publicans sitting from Egyptlan distrlcts comparo very favorably with thelr Demo- cratle colleagues, awd compensato for any losses In northern districts, nssert on tho floor of the fouse that the mi- nority members were Inferlor In intellectual abllity withont challenglng an answer that would prove them nble to defend thomselves against uny nssatlants, 4. Doed the cumulative plan of voting work well fn pruvtice? Any, J—Emphatieally yes, Whoovor says that inority representatlon does not work well in practico In THinols, or that It glves an undue advauntage to *“bummers,” shnply ex- hibits his own blind hnd nerrow prejudices aud begs the whole question fu dispute. 'There Is o difference in kind or effect bobweun “plumping " ond **scratehimz” Both operate ugnally to defoat unpopular candiantes, In any close district, under the oldmnjorlty sys- tem, Legisiativo candidates of the majorlty party were often defented by voters serateh- g thom and votlng for their opponout. Mr. Clarenco Dennlug does not ask what aro tho positive bLenofits of minority repre- sentatlon, but we volunteer the Infornntion. It makes parties in Illinols less sectionnl, stops tho jealousy of Southern Iilinols against Chleago and Northorn1llinols, brings nll parta of the State into legislatve har- mony, tends fo provent extromo partisan nction by tho Legislature, and holds both parties to a stricter nccount to the people for thelr conduct. Besldes, 1t is an act of stmple Justleo to the body of tho people, and as such would bo defonsible oven 1f it should pro- duce some partlsan Inconvenlence, as it will not when it 1s properly guarded and refn- forced by a clenn record In the mnjority for tho trovps malarin will lend very eftielent nid to tho Ashantees In sweeping off muny galiant fetlows who are kept busy Jumping from one English coleny to another, ‘The Guvernment will come off victorious, of coursg, In the end, but what avalls it when some other colony will bo up inanns even before King Coffee, or Koflee, Inys down his arms and disbands his Amnzons? 1n the end 1t Is o losing business, but a Goevernment that will Indulge in a colo- ninl danco nust pay the plper, and atone for its greed in selzing nll sorts of heterogeneous possessions thronghout the world by lavish expenditure of life and woney. The English people are a patlent race or they would long ngo have notified the aristocratie Gov- ernnient to dispose of its colonles, even at o sncrifiee, nud go out of the bustness. them where No man could JUSTICE-OF-THE-PEACE COURT3, Tho Stato Senate Committee of the Judielary has by nuarly o unanimous vote reported un- favorably the bill intended to break-up the practlce of country Justices trying actions of debtugainst persons reslding fn thiy eity, The law having to be geaernl, the members of the Legislature who resido In towns other thoun the county-seats, and who are elther Justices of the Peaco or practitloners in vil- Ingey, object to this blll becanse it may in- torfere with their loeal practieo or trade and their present power to drag Itigants and wit- nesses from all over n county to be and ap- pear before them ip their village, - Any leglslation which will dlminish the cost of litlgatlon, reduce fees, or cut off scandntous and dishonest shyster practices cun hope for littlo. favor at the hands of com- mittees of selfisk lnwyors, who don’t caren button for the rights ot the people. n clty whera there are 00,000 men who live by their dally toil and earnings, .are thousands of other housckeepers, many of themn womon, who hava to practice strict cconomy, and to whom every minute of thno Against theso are arrayed n gong of professional sealnwags, composed of disbarred attorneys, mousing shystors, and reprobate Constables, up tho names of real or supposed debtors, and fn stitute gulfs nzainst them before Jus- tices living twenty to thirty miles from Chi- engo, -The subpenasare served roturnable at tho distant oflless. st most. wnrensonable o answer theso domands re- quires that the defendants and thelr wit- nesses shall leave the clty at anearly hour by rall, attend the Justico Courts, and walt for some nfternoon truln to return to tho eity. A fallure to nppear on time results in a judy- ment. An appoarance, on motlon of tho shyster, most frequent!y guds In contlnuance, with another day’s attondunce ot defendant nnd witnesses, to be repented untll by de- fault tho plaintift obinins o judgmment, Then follow In due time cxceutlons and solzures of property, under circumstances so often described in this and other papers, and often of the most brutal and cowardly ehutnoter, Forall thls hurassing and costly litlgation —tha mpst of it being of o false and fraudu- fent mature—thoro 1s no redress, harvest for o cluss of scamplsh Inwyors, Cons stables, and Justices, who openly bonst that thoy nro protected by the laws of Illinals,and areIn no danger of bewng disturbod by the members of any Leglsinture elected by ruml towny, whore tho Justice of the I’eaco s vigiluut aud consclous of his rights nud dig- MAUDLIN INDIAN BERTIMENT. The miserable squabble over the 1’encas, which ought to have been settled long ngo by prompt and decislve netion, instead of balug allowed to drag over months of tlme with no result, seems to have developed a remnrkable amount of maudiin sentiment and absurd sympnthy for Sloux and savages in general, especlally In the State of Massn- clingetts, which in its carllest history was notatatl squenmish In orzunizing expedi- tlons to hunt down the * red devils* with or without eause, and more thun once treated them not only perfidiously, but cruelly, Chlef wmong these phitwithroplsts Is Mrs. Jackson, better known in Jiternture as “II IL”, who has weltten u book to show that the Government has been dishonorablo to the Indinns for o full century, and that tho red man js a noblo typo of manhood. Inone of the chnptors sho sayys Tha North American Indinn 18 the noblest typo ot u heuthon nizes o Great Bplr ho baan quick inteliot ho ts bravo and fearle 18 true to bla plighted 1 on the enrth! 0 belloves It limmortulity he ls u clenr thinkery nd, until beteayod, ho Lith; ho hua o prsstonnte love for his chiliiren, and counts it Joy to die for hld people. ONF most torsiblo wars bave been with tho neblost typesof tho Indinns snd with men who bnd boen the white man's fricuds. 1t {8 a little reinnrkabls that * 1L I, being A wowan, In summing up the virtues of her brutal friends, should have omitted nll ref- orence to their horrible trentmentof thelr What is the relution the squaw bears _to the “noblest typo of ahenthen man on earth”? She Is his abject slave, his beast of burden, & thing: which ho treats Infinitly his dog, tho constant re- cipient of his selfishness, his passion, his cruelty, and his hate. Tho Inzlest object ever created among heathen or Chrlstinn uien, ho compels her to do all the hard work, to carry all the burdens, to endure all the fatigues, and ho Hes around, when not hunting or sealplng whito men, and gorges hhuself upon the food sho prepares, but must nnt tasto untll her nobly lord and master is full. When slie falls from fatlgue to do hls bid- When sho [s old and un- able to do more, he lenves her on the rond- sldo to die, or dispatehes hor by o rap on the head with hig tomahnawk to the happy hunting-grounds, ‘I'nls Is the nobleat type of heathon man on earth, who belloves in a future stato of oxistence. o hngn pagslon- ate luve for his children, says * 110, H.,” Yes, If they nre males, If they aro females they are ot onee devoted to the most tyrannieal servitude ever known among humnn belngs. Unquestionably, mueh injustico has been done to the Indlans In some -cases, and thesy “noble types” have taken thelr re- vengo by scalplng lnnocent white men, rav- Ishitng wiite women, and burning and dis- ombowellng whito chlidren, noblo types the United States Govornment has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the way of subsldies und payients for lands ugon which they have established by use no strongoer claim than the builalo or the- wolf that romin over thew, and for which they have nover dono anything, using them only us huntingand fishlug grounds, or convenlent positions from which to sally forth on sealp- Ing oxpeditions, Thoy have not only been In constant trouble with tho whites, but with themselves, and for every Indlan killed by o white man twn Indlaus have beon killed by other Indians, Itis tlme that this driveling, sentimental nonsenso and high-tlownswash phllanthropy about Indinn savages wore stopped, If “1L 11's"" child, provided sho has one, had Its bralns dushed out ngoiust a treo or stone ns other people’s children have had; it her husband had been scalpod as other men have been; It her house had been burned down over her heud and sha had been subjected to every ludignity and held In servilo captivity &4 athar wonan hava baon, ’ha would soon Theso vermin hunt Cor. CoLLy, at last accounts, was sur- rounded by the Hoérs, his retrout out off, hls losfes 8o heavy that ho deos not ventura to mako Any wioro assaults, and wus stanolug on tho defensive waiting auxiously for helo, Tho roluforcoments thut e uxpeoted wore to como by rail to Pletermuritzburg, The Socond Rute tallon, numbering 600 men of the Bixtloth Ritles, tho Fifteenth Hussars of 630 men, and o battery of arttllery were nlroady on thelr way. Tho reat, who wore ainco Jauded at Durban, wore tho Ninoty-sceond Highlunders, the Elghtyethlrd the Ninoty-soventh Dragoons, o speclal forco of wmounted In- two batterles with proportlonnte euginoor Inuc® oquipmont, moking about 3000 o Thoy could searcely ‘he expected to arrive quickly, Thodistance from Pletormaritzburg to Nowenstio §a° ovor 200 miles, und ox-wagons ‘afforded tho rondlost means of transport, More- over, the olemonta were unfavorable to the British, Thore bave been heavy downepours of rain aml dense mbsts, Durlng the Natnlsnme mier, though the mornings nvo gencrally fine, tho nfternoons are, on ot lenst four duys out of five, marked by thunder-storns, frequently of grout violence, accompnnled by suoh rain nals only experienced in tropienl or soml-troplenl Under theso couditions drifts which woro. n fow hours buforo cuslly urossed becows totally impassable, 1t being no uncommon thing 1o find i ordinary times: the truflioof two or three days coltected on vither bank of a usunlly insignitionnt stream, walting for tho water to worse than ding ho buats her, e ——— Tuw followhig from the Cluclnatl Com mcercial 18 good enough to be trues and yory inexperienced reporter ontor Duvid Davis u few ovonings gton, and, after stating his tnels *Jdudge, [enmo to usk you afew nehing your politienl course In tho' Wo hnvo the Sennto theured down ihne, and it all depemls wpon your vote,~tho wholo loglslative branch ‘The fact that theso suits are not brought tn the city, whero both tho plalutitls and the defendants reside, ls of itself a confesslon ot the sascality und dishonesty of the litigation, ‘I'hiere Is no member of the Leglslature who cun huvo any other ophion of ¢l Ing, and yet a committeo of tho Sennta near- ly unantwously dechdo that this seandunlous abuse of the forms of law and oppression of the poor shall not bo disturbed. There was & time when the legal profese slon hnd thyt much respoct for I charneter that 1t would bu foreinost In nll mensures to Jbreuk up evory dishonest abuse of the luw wu\ch might be attempted or practiced. Tleneo the old statutes agulust barratry and maintenance, under which men who would instignte litigation or nssumo the costs and expenses to induce persons to annoy, harnss, und Injure othersby sultsatlaw wore punished and wero consfdored Infamous, Wo sup- nosa the same connmittee which rejectod this bill to correct the abuses of the jurisdiction ot Justlces of the Peace would ulso favorsn ropenl of the stututes of thls State against barratry and malntenance, The kind of Justice which Is carrled on In, this county, and which this biit proposed to correct and reforuy, bears about the samo relatlon to tha Gavornment de- your vote—you cail throw It lo ono party or the' athor. 1o usk whathior you would not with tho cratic ur Republicun pa on the fence as herctoforc, und green cnaugh to stute | tersoly thut bo duubtlees fultillod tho old aduge, “Culldeon aud fools tedl the truth, =but bo il not remuln long cnough to place the litinoig Bunutor's answers on revord PR G- Soxp persons of ke female persunsion, und soine of tha inale, ure trylng topessundo the JUlluols Leglslatury thut 3f the saloons puid no Heense nobody would want any cakes or ale, They have mado Youngblood pretend 1o bellove that tho Jermuns wonld refratn’ from tholr bevr unloss the Meenso. tux.waa rolmposodou tho sollor of tho fohming swmibur, Theso peculine peoplo bave an ldea that men's uppetitos for nalt boverages depond upou the puymoent of w liconss tax Ly the vendor, 1y, o schetier Yol w e — A ugumuen of the Canadlan Parllament who biad 4ls cout stolon frowm him in Oltawas onoe day fast weuok, borrowed ono of a frioud, and, ¥ It was much too small, wus arcestod by tho polico whilo on his way homo on suspiclon of having stolon It and taken to the police-station. While he was tharo, tito thior who hait atolen hls cont was brought fn, Exolanations wero mada, the menber was relensed, wikd tho thief was the next tay sentenced to privon for one yesr, e —i GRANT was educated ut the expenga of the overnmont, hnd deawn a Govornmont snlary nonrly half hin fite, ina had # Bouse and horacs given him, and now $250,000 {n- eash hay boen ralsod for him. 1s 1t too much to nek him to r{l\'o tho Amerlean M"Pl" 1 recelpt in full forall domands to dute?—Horton Glabe, Wicn the Amerlenn peoplo give him n recelpt in full for Vickstniey and Appomattox perhaps he will roturn tho compllmont, e —— ‘Tius itent Is now golng the rounds of the vross: Tho Hon.John C. Smith, who Intely rotired from tho ollico of Ktate "T'reasuror of Tlinols, midle up In fuil to the Btate rrom his mengre pusacsdlony tho sum of §15,000 which was stulon rom tho offigs during his incumbenoy, two ex- pert thioves having drawn over tha partition of ho depository with u wiro o packago of enr- rency contiining that maount, e et p— It 13 sald that somo vears ago Rabert Toombs told Joit Davie that If ho wanted to have nny peaen during tho remnindor of his life ho hud botter not publish his history of tho War until aftor his death. This, not heesttzo of Northorn criticlsm, but heeause of tho inovitgs blo rekindling of suppressed animositivs among the Southorn louders. etm——— Yousantoon and severnl others in the Legislature are unxions to got a “*loenl option ™ Inty passod that will stop thom from drinking Ingor-boor whenover thoy want it Can't thoy think of somo elbor wny of stopping them- setyea? Why not try Murphy's bluo ribbon? ‘T wifo of Willinm Banceroft, of Marys- Vlile, 0., obtiined a divoree from him on the 1st fnst. bovouso of his dtunkenncss and fallure to provide for his family, On Buniny nlght tnst, beguiled by his prowmlises of roforin and better conduct in the future, she remarried him, ———— Tue Viekshurg (Miss.) Ierald expresses Itasympatly for a local contompnrary that Is now “ublo toseratoh along withou tho aid of tho tolograph, which I8 consldered by first-class dallles indlspensable.” " e e — Crrrawy Individunls who part thelr long hatr in tho wmiddle aro fussing ubont tho lobbles of “tho Leglslature wanting n bill passed res quirmg thom to take thelr toddlos Iu ualiconsed drameshiops,” 'PERSOMALS. The Russian Minlster of Marine Is writing the story of bis fife. The flrst volume will be devoted to the gentleman's name. There was n wild roport from Washington yeaterdny, that Prof, Hind had stopped writing letters ubout tho fishery award, Unhappily it wits not truoe. There §s something wrong with the Du- bugue Times. 11 printed un account of & prowm- inent citizen's doath tho othor day, but omitted to montion that the sad affalr hud cast o gloom over tho ontiro conumunity. Cineinnati 18 o great elty, mainly devoted to journatism, musie, and pork, A little girl of thnt ity had u spinal discase, o thnt hor bead huny on one side. Her mother gave sowo brend and coltee to u starviug tramp, and ho rubbod the child’s neele whilo be muttered some hiicote- ront words, The child was cured. The tramp disappeared, Mrs, Ilayes will return from the Whito Housa with n completo record of Ity social ovents during her oceupnney, ‘This has beonkept fna fine bluak buok by O, L. Prudon, tho President's assiatant seerctary, and 8 an elnborate plecn of ponmanghip, It 18 8o minute that It uot only In- chudes nll the guesty, but nlso u dingram of tho tablo at dinners and whero cach one sat. Ench page {3 followed by a faney monogram, fu which Is the date of the event commemarated, Iho interest of Mr. James Wilton Hrooks in tho Eventny K.rpress wns sold Thursduy by his legnl representatives, Winsou & Marsh, to an unknown prineipal through B, ¥ Cooke, n New York broker. Whother this prlocipal s Juy Gould, ns epmo suy, or Hoss Kelly bimself, u3 othors suy, ling not transpired. ut tho Noss 1s tuo modest to _hide himself, aud Qould I8 probn- biy tow shrowd to muko himself known at firat. ~Netw York Herald, When Gonld has seoured the Erpress ho will need but one more New York dnily to eontrol the Now York Assoclated Press organization. What will he do with it when ho bins it? Over the banister hends a face, -\ Darlingly swont nnd bequiiugs . | - Somubody stunds In careloss uruco And wuteligs tho pleture smtling, .+ . . Ovor tho banistar soft hnnds fale Brual his cheok ke u feuther: Iirihit Urowi trewses und dusky halr ¥ Moot und mingio togutber. Thoro's & question naked, thore's o awift caross,' * i hus Nown ko & bIrd from tho Laliwayy 1L 070F thio hanlAtor (rapa b Yed, (Pt shall beichten (o world £o7 bim nlwoy, —Uoticky T'uet. Over the gurden-gato bends o man, Qiving o maidon tutfy. Somebady's wettlng ns inud s he ean;’ "I'8 hor slro—Cornellus MahalTy, Ovor his buninnud feot ham-like hands Aro pulilng his boats on quickly. 8tlll at tho gardon goto Osear stands, Soan will his smilo be alokly, Thora's A whizzing sound and n smothored cry; Blio's ulong 11Ke i houso that ts baunted. Tut hap'ly for him there's a dodtor nigh Who wil! put arnlea just whoro it's wautod, A writer on humo toples In tho New York Post romarks In tho vonrso of a letter glving wi- vico to housckoepors, that * Sorenity—outward scronity at lenst—should be maintalned beforo your famlly. ‘Ioo muny women tulk of dowes- tio affalrs boforo tholy husbandsi «and o yery difficult thing it 18 not 10 do so whon, pors bups, you waken in tho wornlng to find your alnglo servant gono and no preparations nde tor Lreakfust, Of course,in these cases, tho disorganlzod state of tho houschold will ob~ trido 1taolf upon tho nttention of each menber of tho famlily, but stiil a good deal cun bo done by trytug to sce the - ludlerous side of things to make oven tho worst stato of matters becomo a Boureo of amuscment ruther than punoyance.” This 18 sweetly truc,und opens s broad and bitherto negleoted fleld for woman, Looked at jn lta triw light there Is notblog so drresist- ibly funny and slde-splitting to tho mverago man as tho autouncement on & cold morning that If ho wilt get up ana bulld the kitehen fire a brenkfast of lukawarm steak and nearly half- donu potatoes will be ready in tho cvurso of two hours. Of courso thero would bo o fow persons ot nioraso lsposition to whom tho ludicrons sidoof the situatlon would not preseut itself, but except In tho case of conlirmed misuns thropes the bilarity of the occusioa would bo self-ovidont. e e—— PUBLIC OPINION. Phfladciphia Press (Rep.): Sunset Cox Is the popular hero of tho bour. 1 Mr, Cox could only suceved fu huving a non-partlsun appor- tlonment bill passed at this sesslon ho would bo entitiedo vinlin most of the bonors of his party in this Congross, Cincinnatt Commerclal (Rep.): If thero waa s loud and unxlous call for reasons for tho trentinent of James G, Blaino with high con- shderatlon by President-eloct Gurlleld, the faot Is thut a large majority of the Ropresentatives of the Cungresdlona) distrlets that uve ltepub- lean wero for Bluino tor the Prealdoney at Cin- clunati in 187 und at Chicago In 10, Tho Uluine delegatus at Chlongo roprosouted over ER Republlenn eonstitucucios, ‘whils bolilnd tho fawous 30" for Grant there wore but thirty Ropublican coustituoncled, That ls u point, Tho Plilladelphla Fress adtnits thot the se- lection ot Btanley Matthows for the Bupreme 1ench has eatied forth ** n marked dissent from amony the Hepublican papers of tho country," and gays: “Knowlug bim ounly through his brief Sunatorial carcer und u fuw fitful public nvnenmnw they think thoy 8eu in bim U mmua of anything but d Judieinl tewpornmont, with a mind setningly uisevenly bulitnced and Tuclined tu crotehots, " Always firm fnu position taken, ho novortholess rmfluvmly left tha public won- dering how ho ot thure und how long ho wus wolng to winy. "Ioat be fulled us_a poliviciun by nu means cinllonges big fitness for the Benob, Hutifamun wants what s dtly sud tersely termed * o level houd,’ he wili | nplun hid de- tiolency more complétely and lumuntably on tho Kuproug flench thau even fn. tho Ynited tutvs uato. Springfiold Republtean (Ind.): Codgress- maon-olect J. Hyutt Swlth, the Brooklyn pustor, says ho could wentdon the nymber fa Hyoadway of & morchunt who nas been koown 1o recelve tbrough tho Custown-Houss packages of kid wloves on which he was willlug to pay storage, but would not puy duty, tho discovery that the rlovea wore all for tho right ha; the basts for tho declaration tha v singulnrty, this an hand, through tho custou oflicn dian border, bt on whioh ho duly for the snmu reason as that Now York Custom-Ilouso, fils tho right-hand glovy mateh tho left-hand Hrooklyn prstor showlil proach u s yrress from this toxt when ho takes p New Yotk Herald: The 8L, Togly are complninlog of an_annoyieo b, Jaurnntiam, which oxista 10 u greate perhaps, In ks elty thanIn the g, Capital—nnmely: tho practice of vupers for Hbol on the nost ubsupg ous vharges, Theso suits, us n e, gated by low, pottifogging ™ ahystorss nearly every instanco tho sole otje the oxtortlon of mnoney. No reapec wilt knowingly and willtully injur reputation, and whon porchanco will ilwnys be found ready to mnak cet veparation. There I8 n class of lawyers in this city, and wo infer f, Louls contumporarica thut that piace 1y fnfested, who mnke It thele busin tully road the nuwspnpers, and wh that et Lo bossibly tor, 1bol to fnduece the pretended poraon to employ ther, olding out 1he nrge nnd cortnln duniges, Tho wholy glinply blackmnll In the nams and y Theso so-called lnw, protossion, nover § wruce i Bonora e snits thoy Tnduce tho uustaneeting & e to Mk 8 compromise BOUIO. NOWSPRPE thun hesubjected to tho annoya venlenoo ol golug lato court, protoction nitaiust theso hury u the libel b of Misaourt St Lowis Journnls, stotutes on the subj groat advantuge (o rospeotablo Jou Ctuclnnati Commerclal: that tho Irlsh peoplesuifer from nsystem 1notopoly that Is full of Injustico nud opp and wo sympathize stuceroly nud wirmly iy there cffortd to brank it up. The English, Seotet, and ‘Welsh aro nlao sufferers~not inas great urlmn fi8 tha 1rlshi—but tho peoplo of Grent iy huvo n common gricvance. tn order to Suceeed fu roformation, the questions must be magy British, und not nllowed to becoms exclug] Irlsh, Tho ngitntors In ireland have proce with 30 much recklosuess that thoy huve g ficed libernl Englisb sympathy, and with it thg, hopoof siceess, Thoy hnwo uttacked tho Fmpiry Of course that mouns thot they nre by tho urmy aud unvy of Great Iritn| 1iritish do not care meetings, They will meet pari struction with tho gng, and Insurre Wo ure oppused to ey that mukes n question uifecting all tho people of tho Britisn Irandsag ITrish auestion, und thut wonld {ntlime tho ex. uitublo people of Trelnad to mudies: them, nceordlug to the loglo of Mr. [ smussicrod by trained soldiers. Tho situtio feems to us to show tho Ineapaclty of the Jrig) po af help for Irelund i3 that i ot prevail among the Ly d that laws shull be respeeted; ang thou tho' Liherul statosmen of Englud n pledyed to 1 work of reform that may ben reaj Lenelit to the poor pensuatrs uf the world been Jong & ot slow to nuger, have b ! rovoeation, The true clew to the sulution off tho misernbio wystory of Ireland I8 to mako th Jtish questions—ta carry th Warring upon the foi 108 10 niiendmeny i rush for Atneriesn s, hut shoukd bo ong tush counsel shu Irieh questions agltation into Boginnd. perlnl intogrity of Great Tiritaiu tory oratory of Amerleg enn 4o (o good to sninug erenture, and, it influentiul ut all, wi make wlachiet, Now York correspondence Philadelohi Fedger: My Alllson, while on the Ways and' Means Committee, from 1803 to 1871, 1t is remenmd bered, had nbundans opportunlty to familiarize himselt with tho lnrge commercinl interests of thls port, and merehants who bnd frequent o caslon then to consult bim and to be consulted by bim with roferenco to tho tnelil and custozy matters, testify not onty to hisquick perecptiont in Intrleato onses, but nlso to his unitorm urbae isy lu versonnl intercowas, It need not boadid that, during tho administration of Mr, Rherman, thio hinporters have felt that, 1s a elgs, the! binve been under the hnrrow, nnd that any chany.| now mitst be a change for the better, us well {1 the publio futerests as for thelr own. This map) Dbe hursh If not undeserved erlticlsa, but with e without rensott, 1t 13 Indulged with great [reedem, Under Mr, Allisou they expeet espeelally th gt rid of the detectivo system and that rlgid cons) struction of tho enstoms Inws which bug 8o fre' d thewr to cono nto court iy ro not detrandin quently compell nrovo thut they ernmont by undervaluntions, cto. whul busls exists for tho expectations of ud: thut must bo teft to the future, 34 the Custom-House, 80 certuli §8 everybody th thatt tho Senntor from lowa 18 the that all bauds, hie {F with Instinet) putting thelr housn in order, friends whom Benntor Coulkling still rdtalns I wl Offles wad tho Warehouse Department are begliming to dwellwpon _tho tierits of 3l Alllion, nud to glve the new Prosldent cradit furl making tho seicotlon. Tolitically—as fur s caul bo deterinined at preaeut—tho effeot will proba iy bu to bottor unito the Repubile facthns | Now York thiun Would bo poas:bie if a Now 1wnn, with loeal Jonlousics to deal with, had 1t will, of conrse, bo dulicult, evont, todigside My, Conkltug from bls 1010 of would-bo dlotutor, but ho is 1o sorekd & pulitictan, at the sumg thue, to by in 4 hure make war upon . Cabluot tho parsonticl which promises to be popular. ———— TIPPECANOE COURT-HOUSE, Special Dispateh to The Chiraga Tridunt, LARAYETTE, Tk, Fob, 11.—Tho wranglo o} tha propused now Court-Houso for Tippecant, County bns come to an end for the preseal probnbly, 88 the Commisslonors have plccd i tha record an order ndopting the tay preseuted by Litins Max, of this olty, and have given bin sixty duys in which to present full and completo specifications and worklng plans For this service the Bonrd agree to yur cent upon the gost of said bulkding, butin no ovent 1 tho sum pald hin to exceed H 1t 1a estimated thit the steucturo will cost §20< It 1s to bo fro-proof, ntrahice on ouch A good deul of feellng dures over tho netion of the tho dully papurs, w) that thury wus w T It 13 also churs 553 has been engens oruinlslopers 42 ho hayo lutimat~ inge hidien sane whern fu tho job. “l o blan ndopted, although prosented by At the workinangtip of 3r. Pl ho ndoption of tho pli speelfientlons were propa) ol tho usual courso, 1d Tyke, one of m, ., dissents on this account s e —ep————— X, Jensey Ciry, N, J., Feb, 1.~ it appearance § Now tho diseuse hus assumed an epldol and In two tenomonts fu tho efty snd ook blocks upart thore ure twelye porsons sufferlnd with the contagior Apecia Prary, 1., Fe this clty n fow woeks 8% teh to The Chicago Tridunt b, 11.—Tna niarm folt presence of snlepox at Har ly 8ix milus [ron: hero, tho dlsuass, has been supplement that the disense fus beon discovered ol where €. Kumpp, u furniture deal selzed with it, Rotkfurd, and lurge numbers vacelunted Locauso of Its near Do far not u cuse has hoen discovered I ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Spectal Dispaten to The Chl TArAverTe, Ind, Fob. 11 wonian who eame hero® from 1nd eho cladme, to marry 4 man NNmc tempted auicide, nod made AIMOA it. Bho was conveyed to the Jult attonded by tho prison physiciun, 8 erat Lors of working with wag bronl Sho ulloies that Lllard and been corroaponding for somo Ll he wrote for bor to cote vit ah thoy Whon sha urrive ponling to Jus 1 Didtnrad to marry her, 850 despondent aud took polsen. 7 .+ BOSTON NEWS. Bpecla} Dirateh eb, 11.—Nuoarly subscribod towarda the now ton Youny Men's Christian soon us $175,000 {8 pledged work The late John AL Plnkorton, by his will $200,000 to ¢! 1., founded in 1815 by tl avafiable, befog 1 tho furm of are left in trugt to be paid by il the Avndoiny to severnl relatives the death tho.monvy govs dine! —Jenny Casth b o fatuer and uuck LIQUOR QUESTIO Br. I.()ouu, Mn(.). Fob, 1).—Quitv 8 mude wp principally of Qurmund, nlght (o protest axnlngt tho bill Taglislature, providing for un 8 Btaté Constitution prohibiting ¢ orsule of splrituous lquo Einllo Protorious, editor of {h by, wis nppoluted DU.) ’»PW denw up u pledgo to be subm dates for oltico at the spriog v