Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1881, Page 4

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C. 11, CRANE, Sucrotury, _ TUESDAY, F IBRUALRY 23, 1881, A nunar correspondent desires authority for the statement which i Trinuse made a few days ngo that “u sleoping-ear com- pany f8 not a common earrler,” It ought 1iot to require argument to show that a com- pany whieh earries nothing 18 not “a com- mon earvier,” ‘Transporting persons or gools lano part of the business of o sleep- Ing-car company, Bouvier defines commion carrlors to by * such ns carry goods for hire indimerently for all persons,” and common currlers of passengers to be “such s earry persons for blra and ure bound to carry all who offer.” Hpw can the renting of bunks and the granting of a temporary Interest m soap und towels bo defined ns the act of n common carrler 2 In practice the Conrts have not 40 held, "Mt Winniax D, Howknns has restgned tho editorship of the sAtleutie Monthly, and itis currently reported that he I8 to be yp- vointed Ministor and Chargé at Berne, Swit- zorland, T'he salary nttached to the position 18 85,000 per annuu, That Mr, Ilowells s competent to disehargo the dutles of thoe of- fleco no one will galnsay, Dut the felicity of the President’s choles I3 warred by the fuct that it falls onone of his blograph- crs, who by nnnevelous eolncidence happens to'be another Ohio man, The disposition of the Presldent to puy off old political debts in tho elosing hours of his Adminlstration las searcely a purallel in the history of the conn- try sineo the thuo of John Adams, who sig- nalized his retiroment from oftice by filling with hls favorits o number of huportant vacuncles In the Federal Judiclary, ‘The midnjght appointments of Adums wero the pretext for Jelforsow’s Invasion of the prece- dents wder which up to that time the ten- ure of the Clvil-Service luul been during good behavior. It would seem that the only pro- fessedly Civil-Servieo Reform Adwuinistra- tion known to Awmerlean polities might have colobrated its demlse more worthily than by imitating the blunders of the elder Adams, Tug phraso **constitutionnl adviser” when applied to one of the heads of department, called by courtersy In thelr colleetlve en- vacity the “Cublnaty” 1s au abuke of lun- gunge. That is just what tho hends of de- partment are not, ‘The Constitution has nothing to sny about' “advisers” to the Prestdent, 1t refers to heads of department asto certaln executive oftieers who were to hecreated, and whose dutles wera to be de- fined by lnw; but the framers of the Counstl- tutlon were not guilly of the absirdity of preseriblng what wdvics the Chlef Exeeutive should tuke or not twke, or to whom he should apply for such enlightenment os he might desire; neither did i¢ stipulnte that the heads of depurtment whed appoluted should give the Prestdent milvico if he asked for it, nor that they shoukl be rewarded for good ndvice, or punished for bud wdvice, or havo an netion for dimnges against the Presle dent If he should deellne to draw on thelr stores of wisdom, ‘The so-called * Cabinet” I3 In fact un extraconstitutional fenture of our politienl systemy and it was only needed to cap the ellmax of its curfous growth that the membors of It shonll bo termed In lonse conversatlon thy Presldent's constitutionnl advigers,” ONE of the New York emmmercial nows- papers compluing bitterly of tha operation of the school tax, under whivh New York ity contribtites more tan twleo 03 much to the State School Fund us comes back from It In tho pra-rats distribution. ‘Ihe figures uro as follows: . Tho distribution of the school tax—of which New York puld SLE0K, or nedrly one-tuf, In 18—is u wonstrus wrong. 1L is 8o comtrived thut only ¥50,000 of the school tux ralsed from tho oity’ vowes buek for the nuwmrt of her pub- 1ly schools. L The remutnimg &2000 gous to C turuugus, Chuntauqie, Oieldu, Onondug, St. Lawrence, Ulster, uid other coulities whose voge ru xlmlufumu Wonelves i the Legs h tholr hurib treatiment of ! which edutates their Ciildron, o0 OF 18 €ty The oxporience of New York In this ree spect §s not peeu Chlengo, and we have reason to beliove most other lurge elties, hus Leen subjected to precisely the same treatment, 1n 1875, Chicago und Cook Couns ty paid State school taxes wmountlug to S526, and recelved buek but §122,45, showlug that the State took from the county Ih uxeess 0f what was returned for sehook purposes $10,431, In 1670 the winount was notso large, beeause as much was ot col- legted, but tho excess was sthll S, Tho eause of the diserimination agalnst large cltles and prosperous towns 14 simply that they pay a larger share of taxes than the rural distrlets. The assessed valuntion of ety property is higher; and the State tax is distributed among the countles, not aceord- Ing to contributions, bt in proportion to the number of fuhabitants of school age in each, There 1s ueither equity nor sense in the presentrule, Chieazo onght, it anything, to receive eontributions from the outside coun- {les to nssist In the education of the city puor Instead of bolng lovied on for the benefit of the rural distriets, “I'he ity will be dolng uncommonly well when it takes proper enre of all its own ehildron. Without referenco to real-estate “values, Cook County has a Inrger school population proportionntely, and a far Invger number of forclgners and VOOr pre rata, than any other Incorperated community In the State. e Soxr days ago Tne Tunuse dirceted at- {entlon to the eurious litigation In which the Standard Ol Company nad beeome Involved. The Compnny, it will beremembered, sought toenforce In the Courts ncontract with a firm of Clevelnnd refiners, ‘The turms of the con- tract were that the refiners shoull not pro- duce more than 85,000 barrels of ofl per annvm, and that they should recelve from the Standard an honorarlum of 835,000 per aunum, The Cleveland flem ovorran tho 1lmits preseribed by theconttact. ‘Che monop- oly thereupon filed a bl for an Injunction to restraln them from oxceeding the produc- tion agreed upott. 'T'wvo of the quast-defend- ants, being really In colluslun with the Standard, asked by n counter-petition that the contract bg enforced. Judge Barber, in chancery, refused a temporary Injunctionon the ground that the contract of the petition- ing company with the defondant was Hiegal, a3 agalnst publie policy and in’ restraint of trande. Judge Caldwell, of the Com- non Pleas Court, has now dismissed the petition and the eross-potition with which the two seulor members of the firm sup- vorted tha contract. The caso Is to be ap- vealed, but, whatever the utiimate declsion mny be, the Standard has recelved a sovere blow in the oxposure of its methods of doing business. It is, fndecd, surprising that the Company should ever have permitted the mntter to get into the Courts, 'I'he pre- stnption fs that it hns grown bolder and moreavaricious with success, 50 that It now has the hardihood to ask protectlon for Its monopoly from the Courts estblished for the Lenetit of the people. VE observe that the Natlonal Republican, which professes to bo In polities o *full- Dbreed " of Jiumbletonian stoek, Is opposed to any present declslon of the question of dis- trlet representation by the Natlonal Repub- lican Committee. ‘Che Commlttee s to meet In Washington on the ih prox. to consider the subject. The occaston scems to the Re- puhllean *most mopportune, being the very thne when the least attention ean be s cured.” But the truth of the postulate daes not so obviously appear. Why is 1t the oc- easlon when “tho lenst attention can bo se- eured”? 'The new Presidont will then hava been innugnrated. Washington wiill have taken off Its holiday garments nnd gotten ready for sorious business, It s .not to be disguised that tho declsion of this auestion of distrlet representation 1y such buslness, The Washmgton Re- prhtlcan wants to * postpons the considera- tion of the subject until the tmonth of De- cembor, 1853, six months before the tine for the wmueting of n convention.” That surely wonld be an *inopportane time.” Tho can- didntes might thon be announcad, nd the canvass partially shaped;.and whatover ne- tion the Committes should take wonld bo un- dlerstood un hnving a personal bearing. Noj it would be better on all accounts to have this grent and fundamental prinelple of the Republican party detinitly promulgated. No time can be so good for 1t as the first week of o Republican President who was chosen by virtie of it, and whose vigorous champlon- ship of 1t was the cause of his nomination and electlon. It is idle for anybody opposed to it to seck any longer to postpone the (for tuemy) evil hour, g THE BANKS AND THE NEW LOAN, Both Jlouses of Congress have concurrod in that portion of the Funding bill which fixes the rate of Interest on the new Nu- tional lonn at 3 per cent. That feature of tha bill will, therefore, bo the law, there being no probabliity of an Ixecutive veto, Any discussion, one way or the other, to Influcneo an Incrense of this rato of interestis now idle. Wemust tako the law as It is, Tue TrmuNe shares in none of tho unjust - prejudiees which unfortunately exist agninst the Nattonal banks, “This paper has opposed, 13 wholly unjust, muny of thoe coerclve and vindietlvo clauses fnserted in this b by the Democrats, nnd intended to punish the banks and If possible drive them to withdraw thelr cireulation, ‘Theso .very clauses, haw- ever, huve been approved by o mujority of both Iouses of Congress, and In all probnbility will become part of the law, So fur as thoso clauses stand, ‘1I'ue I'mvuse thinks the banks have just cnuss of com- plaint, and that the vindietive leglslation was unworthy of Congress, 1f the objeetions to the Jnw were contined to this part of the bilt we should couslter them well founded, but a3 the Inw will stand 1t I8 & question whether the loan should bo defeated solely becanse the terms are oppressive on the banks, The difference to the Government between tha suceess of this lonn and its failure wiil he about $12,000,000 0 year, and, as the loun 1s open to the wholo country, It does not follow 1t must full gven 1f the banks retuso to tako auy part of it In this light of the case, the thrents nnd predietions of some of the managers of the Natlonal bauks to withdraw their bank-noto clreulation amd thus defeat the lvan alto- gether ure extremsly absurd. Four or five banks in Now York City have, it Is said, glven notice that they will, I this bill pass, retire thelr noto eirculation, and it Is stuted that at lenst ono bank in this elty hus glven u Hke notice, Should this blll become s lnw and a portion of thesy banks shoukl withdraw thelr circulntion, the effect of such n pro- ceeding upon the busluess of the country, il upon publis oplnlon, nnd upon thoe welfare of tho Government, may not bo as sweoping 1y some persons antieipate, The country, fortunately, doessot dopend exclusively on the Natlons] banks for o con- Ununnee of Ity prospority, Every Notioual bank may retire lts cuvrency and still tho comntry could manage to get nlong, ‘'he country has now o respectable volume of gokd coln, und of silver, and of greonbacks, All this gold "and slivey oan bo utllized as ‘eurrency In the form of Treasury cevtilentes, In Itko mpnner the present bill provides for the lssue of §300,000,000 of “Treasury cortitl- cates bearlng 8 per vent interest, and which witl answer sufticlently well for currency, In polnt of fact, with the ndvantage vf gold and silver cestiicates and gold and sliyer coln, nnd the greenbacks and tha Interest- bearing certlficates to be lssued under this bill, the country will have & supply of cur- rency us great us it hoas had at any thoe durlng the Inst ten years, andas it has now, even I tho Natfonul- bank notos be rettred, W do not think thers need bo any fear of & contraction of the currency amounting to apoanle, Al provhecles of that klud are uothing more than tdle wind, Nor need tho banks dread the consequences npon Natlonal credlt resniting from a faflnre to have this Toan taken. With 4 per coent bonds selllng at 112 it 13 not likely that & per cent National Do nds will go begging at- par. Like predie- tlons were made with respeed to the 4 per cents, buty when the Government opened the hooks 1o nrivato subseription, the péople took the loan direet, without the interven- tlon of sytulleates, So now, if the Sveretary of the Treasury will open fl\o books for this new loan, offering.it at par to everybody who will take It, 1t 18 Just as lkely that the whole sum wiil be prompily taken, without the akd ofany of the half-lozen New York Clty banks which inslat that they are the hub of the world's finanelal syatem, ‘The Natlonal banks outside of New York City have hitherto, when required to change thelr bonds nt the Treasury for new issues, been compelled to purchase the new bowds front tho banks in New York City, paylng a liberal pereentage for the privilege. Under the LIl now pending In Congress, every N tiona! bank in the couniry may eseape this exnction; It will ave the opportunity of subseribing for the new bonds directly at tha Treasury, and of recelving them at par. 1t is mora than likely that all National bauks in tho country, save those who may surrender their cirealation, will provide thomselves with 8 per cent bonds, and in this way go on with thelr business, Many banks may go out of business, but it will be for some other reason than beenuse of the differenco be- tweenn 3 per cent mwl a 354 per cont rate of interest on the bonds, For every bank which may retire its cur- rency beeause the bonds bear 3 per cent in- terest Ingtead of 84 per cent, there will bo other banks established to nmieet whatever necessity there mny be for such institutions. The question presented by the passnge of this bill will be whether the country will lend tho Governnient §300,000,000 ut 8 per cent in- terest, tnking therefor 520 bonds or Interests bearlng Trensury notes. The banks concede that the conntry i3 positively hungry for thls lonn, and would voraciously devour it if the interest was 33 per cent. It {s n question, therefore, how far the people who have tho money to tend amd who eantiot get 4 percents nt less than 112, and ennnot get 314 per conts atatl, will lock up thelr meney and go with- out any luterest sooner than tako 3 per cent nt par. ‘The UL ns it now stands provides for a Natlonal loan at 3 per cent, muld so far is un- objectlonable; but the Democrats In Con- gress chooso to Include In its provisions to compel tho banks to taken pgrtion of this loanon the most liliberal terms or go out of business, e can understund how some of the banks may yrefer to retirg their cir- culation rather than comply with these arbitrary terms, but that does not afTeet the taking of the loan by the country generally, The loan will bo offered at prr and fa small sums, and we have no questlon that it will be taken, even if o portion of the National- buniks refuse to tnke any part of it, — e s WASHINGTON CABINET GOSSIP, It Is not untikely that Gun, Garlield hns regretted more than onee that ho resnlved after his cleetion toplay the part.ola listener., It has been o more trying role than he could have anticlpated. The counsel he has In- vited hns been go multitudinous and so diverso that the President-elect must have dwelt In asortof ‘Tower of Bubel duriug the past two or thres months. There nre re- ports that the constaunt badgering of poli- ticinng hng been wenrlng upon hiu, and they mny readily be credited, 3 It may be safely nsswmed that tho most which Gen. Garfield hns accomylished to- ward making up a Cablnet Is the narrowing of the elrelo from which. his selection shall be made. Thero 1s no doubt that e s o strong deslre to restore o greater degreo of harmony among the factions of the Repub- ltean party than has prevailted during the past four yenrs, and it I8 noticeable thnt nll the lending pollticiang who have visited him ot Mentor have come away In very good lumor, which could only have been brought nbout by o feeling that the clulmg of thelr partieular ellques and thelr own individual ufiuenco will be recog- nizgll. Gou. Garfleld is canellistory by nat- urs and by habit, e isabelioverta u cortain extent in the latssezfalre poliey, and jhenco will postpone the finnl arrangewent of his Cabinot till the Iatest moment. Even then it may be that ho will regrot haviug come to a determination when 1t ean be no longor post- ponod, 10 ho shall fall to satlsfy all the leaders from the vurlous scetions, which seems to be inevitable, it wiil be beenuso thelr demands were unreasonable, for Gen, Usrfickd desires to avert.factional stelfu dur- g his Administration. The late visit of Senator Conkling to Montor s the best evi- dencu of this fact. Alinost everybody in Washington public life, outside the very fow men who under- stand tho renl difficulties nf the sltuntlon, are ready to announce a Cablnet, Gen, Garfleld probably wishes he had progressed as far as this. Iut the voluntesr Cablnet-makers aro compelled to change their slutes from day to day. 'Tho only appointment thut ean e predicted with wnything like core tuinty Is that of Senutor Bluine ns Sec- retary of State. It 1s also probable that Gen. Gorfield will adhere to his determination that the Treasury Depnrtment shallnft go to New York, rumors to the contrnry notwithstyuding; and in that caso Senator Adllson certsluly hins tho preference in bis mind, Within u week or so there hos been some speclal opposition (o Allison. It hus como purtly from the representatives of Wall streot, Journalistio and otherwlse, who class Ailison among the sott-money men, for no better renson than beeauss he hins rofused 1o subseribe to the viclous effort to reducs the legal-tendor woney to gold - alone, This unreasonnble oppositlon I8 not enlenlated to have much influence over Garfleld, A more speclous plen urged uggalnst Allison's appolutuent 1s that hhe 1 too strongly attached to Blaine's inter- ests, ‘Ihls Is doliberate Injustles, for It is known to by Senator Allson's convietion that 1o man ean honorably go Into Garlleld’s Cabinet without preferriing the lntter's elnlms to relilection over the Presidentinl ambition of overy other mun, 8o faras o Cabinet ofl cor may properly inlluence the result, It Is alsa deelared by Mr, Blabno's friends that he wili go Inta the Cabluct thoroughly dovoted to Gon, Guutiold's Interests, ud with the PUrpose to galn a3 much renown as possible for the Administration he I8 to serve, In that event Alllson’s friondship to Blntne s ot an objection, but an additional reason for hig appolutmont. In Washington yestorday there were full ad graphlo accounts of the result of Mr, Conkling’s recent pllgrimuge to Mentor, which was followed shortly nfter by tha visit of Judge Folger to the President-cleet, It does not appear that these reports were based on authority, but 1t seoms to be coneladed that, becauso the Now York Senntor wis treated courtoously and the New York Judgae not klcked out of the hospitable man. slon at Luwulield, the ‘Treasury has been awarded to the new combination, ‘This may Lo true, but 1€ 1t 1s {t I8 o very reéont change of opiniou on thoe part of Gen, Gurtlold, for hehus mulntatined sl nlong und up to within nvedy fow doys (e thio Secretary of the ‘Treasury ought not to Ln, and would not be, seleeted from New York. For obvlous rea- suny this declurod conviction was so general thnt 1t would apply to Judge Folger as well ns to Mr. Morton, There aro several Impor- tant considerations whieh, when care- fully welghed, onght to bar the 'U'reasury against Judge Folger for tho present: (1) 1t is mot lkely that any Now-Yorker can Le seleetedd with tho approval of the rul- ing clique in that State who would not heat varinnes with thegreat imnss of tho Amorienn neople, who are In favor of malntaining the double standard and the present satisfactory system of specio-payments and legal-tender, ) Juwdge Folger, by his long earcer on tho Deneh, lias neceysarily been excluded from a close and sorlous sindy’ of Government finance, wherens the Seerelary of tho I'rens- ‘ury should first of all. have an intimate knowledgo of the history of Amerlean finance during tho past fow years which have beon so eveatful, and bo thoroughly in ac- cord with the system whieh has proved so successful. (1) Onoaf the oxcellent res sonsaceredited to Gen, Garfleld why the retary of tho Freasury shonld not be seleeted from Now York is the close reladon between that Department aud the New York Custom- Ionse, and the consequent necessity fi)r pro- teethig the I'veasnry from New YorR dicta- tion ns to tho management of the Custom- Ilonse. (4) The' concesslon of the Treasury Department to a Now-Yorker, after tho clique of politicians from that State, headed by Senator Conkling, have persistently de- clared they would be satlsfied with nothing less, und after tho prolonged resistance Gen, Cartield hns made to such a demand, woulil look to the country too much Itke a recogni- tion of tho *boss ™ system to meet with gen- eral approval, 1t is not likely that CGen, Gar- field wlll setastdotheseconslderations lightly or lmpulsively, After the State and Treasury Departments tho position of Postmaster-General I3 the most Important from n political pointof view, nnd it is probably the place to which the New York influence will be turned It it shall prove that the ‘Treasury is beyond its reach. In that event Mr. James, the present Post- master at New York City, would be tho most obvlous selection. There i3 a general disposition to concede o Mr. James peculinr ability for the man- agenient of this oflice, and as James has alwnys been a Grant man and a strong friend of Mr. Conkling's, It Is coneluded that hls appointment would be aceeptable to the New York “Stalwart” Senator In - the event of his fallure to obtaln the one thing he wants. Tho selectlon of Mr. James would exclude Mr. Morton from any position in the Cabinat, but this turn of aifairs would not be so offensive to Mr. Conkling ns generally supposed. It I8 'the Treasury which Mr. Conkling hns nimed at, rather than Mr. Morton’s preferment. This beenms evident when the New York Senator Indieated Judge Folger ns an aceeptable candldate. 16 the, rensons for not appuinting Morton to that position were personal, or of n business charaeter, Mr, Morton’s nmbitlon weuld bo abundantly satistled If he could be appointed Sceretary of the Nauvy; but that would not sult Mr, Conkliz, As ngninst the probable appointment of Mr, James to the Post-Oflico Department it Is urged that Gen, Garfield, ng an aspirant for retlection, will desiro to huva tho vast patronige of this branch of the sorvice under the control of some one who Is strongly attnched to DbIs own Interest, and that lience the selection of Gov, Foster for that place Is among the probabill- ties; but, ns Gen, Garfleld is really anxlons to propitiate Mr, Conkllng, It is not likely that ho will bar the Stute, the L'reasury, and the DPost-Office Departmonts against tho special protection of that gentleman. "The Interlor Department ranks next In in- terest, and the name of Mr. Itobert Lincoln has been urged with constderable force, It muy bo neeepted that Gen. Garfield 1s favora- bly disposed toward the appoiniment of Mr. Lincoln, and is fully hmpressed with the welght aud prestige that attaches to his nume, as woll as his respeetable charactor and attalnments. It way be that if the Inte- rlor Depurtment goes to some one eclse, Mr, Tincoln will still be appointed to o Cabinet position, and it i3 nlnost cartain that I£ any [tlinois man be seloeted for the Cabinet Mr, Liucoln will bo the eholee. The same muy bo suld of ex-Senntor Iowe, verhaps, if n Cublnet position govs to Wisconsin, For the South, Gen. Morgan, of Louisiana, now Minlster to Moxleo, scems to have the led, and ns o Iawyer, and possesslng grent Tamilinrity with Spanish and French grants, ho ks said to bo woll fitted for the position of Attorney-General. Mr. Surgent Is sald to have the most promising prospeets from tho Taetfic Coast. But nelther the South nor the Pacitie Const 1s an essentlal element In the constitution of the Cabinet, The personal amd factlonnt Influences ure much wore Im- portant and perploxing than the geographical canslderations, Inany case, while the probue bilitles fn resurd to the Cabinet may beeomo more manifest as the day of Inauguration appronches, the situation will continue to bo more or less uncertaln until the Cnbinet shall he ofticially announced. President Ilayes made o change fn his Cubinet-llst after heavrlved In Washington, and only o day befors ho was fnaugurated, and the final shinplng of Gen, Gartleld’s Cabinet presents more cmbarrassments thau Hayes found, . —e THE LAKE-FRONT IN CONGRESS. A persistent and apparently senseless op- position to what is known as the Lake-Front Lill has been doveloped In the lobby of the 1louse of Representntives, - It purports to bo based on tho npprehension that the pnssuge of the bill may In some ovceult way convey to tho rallrond companles, to which it is pre- vosed to sell tho Fort Denrborn Addl- tion, certaln ripnrinn rights which they would not otherwise enjoy, or cone firm to them such rights to tho submerged Innds as thoy may now elal, Coples of a recent number of aChlcago news- vapar elaborating this view of the ease wero asslduously distributed on the desks of Con- gressmen yesterdny normng, wnd renewed cifort was made to fmpress upon them the viaw thut some great wrong would be pruc- tieed by the vassage of the bill These efforts ngalnst the bl are either founded wpon Ignorance of what the bill contalng, or thoy avo suggested by an Inter- ested lobby, ‘F'ho bHLslmply conveys to the City ot Chi- eago any clalm which the Government may huve to the title of what is known ny Fort Dearborn Addition to Chlengo, and ussents 10 tha sitlo by the elty of some 800 fectof the property under certain conditions, One ot the conditions 18 that the proporty shall not be used for any purpese inconsistent with the health and convenlenco of the city; nnother Is that the property-owners repre- sonting at lenst three-fourths of the lineny frontago on this public ground shall give thelr consent to such snle fn writing, Any question of ripurian rights is noeessarily loft for the City of Chlengo, whigh Is to muko the proposed sule, € §t be made, to settle, as tho United States simply” relinguishes to the city its rlght and title. Nevevtheless, In order to re- move this objection, which appears to bo busclens, the frionds of the Dbill have not merely consented, bub proposed, that un ameiidment shall bo offered which shall re- serva to the United States Government all rights It may have ju the submerged grounds; hunce, if the alleged basis of opposition to the measure be honestly conceived, such an amendment will yemiove the objectlon, Moreover, it I3 understood thot the repro- | sntatives of the city on the oue part, and af the rallroads on tho othor, have ngreed that a satisfactory ndjustment of tho question of submerged lands shall bo made hefore tho snle shall be conchuded, ‘I'liere Is renson to believe, however, that the opposition to this b Is lnspired by the Valentine-seriv ecrowd for purposes of thelr own, and no Covigressman famlilar with the purpose of the mensuro can joli in the oppo- sition without subjeeting himself to tho sus- plcion that he hns heen influenced by theso peovle. Itis cortaln that tho wmost active agents employed to disseminate the Impres- slon of opposition are elosely ldou- fifll with the Valentineserlp clique. I'e’ real purposo of this cllque is believed by many to by n de sire to compel tho rallrond peopla to buy off their spurfous clalm In order to avert their opposition. The proposed wmendiment wiil deprive them of tho capital upon which they hnve been working, and leave them freo to nssert in tho Courts any slindow of elatm they may have, either ns ngninst the United States (iovernment, or the City of Chieago, or the future purchasers ot the land, It was hoped that the bill might be taken up under n call of Committees yesterday, but the Conumittes on Public Lands was not renched in the enll. The samo bill which has passed the Senato lies on the Spegker's table in the House, and may be ronched during the closing days of Congress and passed. Such will be the result unless enough Congress- men ean be bamboozled by the shallow mis- representations that seem to come from people who aro ranked as swindlers In Chi- cngo. Goorgo Washington, Each yenr a3 the 221 day of February ap- pronches wo nre reminded that tho Father of his Country was orfuinully born In a smatl way and ns a common infunt. Waiving his po- cullar right to bo born on tho Fourth of July, ho modestly apveared in the most insignificant month of the yeur, and ut once dovoted himselt to tho eerlous business of life. So far as history nforms us, he had no gkreat naturnl ndvantuges over othor mato chilitron, and atarted ou his earcor with no specinl facllitios for becoming T'restdent. 3 o was at that timo of medinm hight, loose- Jointad, bnld-hended, nnd fncxperienced. e was carcless nbout his dress, and natural In munuor, lmpuisive and anotlonal, easily moved to tears, but doficiont in humor: foud of rest Ly day and exeitement by night; sunplo in his tastes; monotonously severe fn his dlet; free from Intemperanco, profanity, pride, vainglory, and hypoerlsy. In short, hehud no bad habits which he could not reasonably hopo to outgrow and no remarkable development of chnraetor or Intelleet. Indeed, it Is roported by somo of his nurses, who still live, that at this period of his life the Father of his Country had n soft sput In bis head, Heo evinced at au early ugo thoso democratio Instincts which In later Uite mado him the idol of the poovle. Mo ussocinted freely with tho Juvenilo produee of his fattor's slaves, sharing with thom the glory of mud-ples and other primitive forms of keramle art, and winning thelr murbles a8 cheerfully and unafteotedly us ifthe lttlo plokaninnles had been germs of Royaity or the oltspring of nrehangols. IHis prido was In his game and nav in his. Caucaslan Dlood. As a boy ho lovel his follow<bolngs without distinction of color, nnd when he grew upand owned o good muny of thom, he valued tho blackest mau 03 highly as i€ ho had been yellow or of some Intermedinto shado —tho market prico boing the same, That nat- urnl feeling which ‘prompted some proprictors to think moro of the lighter tints was merged In the grand catholieity of g love for mankind, We now turn tonn fneldont of his curly lifo which hus beon strangoly ovorlonked by tho his- torinns, but'which descryves to be regarded ns n most signiticant ovent: Whon he was unbout 0 Years olil ho beenino tho posseasor of A hatchet, Il saw In this not the emblom of erucity,—the tomuhawk of tho savago,~but the linplement of Industry; and strafghtway applied himself to tinstudy of its uses, In his fathor's garden wns o eberry-tree which bure no ligs; and he heard a voles erying, “Cut it down! Why cum- boroth 1t the ground?" and another volco, *Woodman, spare that tree!” Ho thought it might bo spured, and he cutdt down. Ashowusabout finighing bis task ke abserved his fathor appronching and trimming n long switch inaqulet and thougbttul mannor. Tho latter playfully neked Georgo If he was fond of chop- ping, nnd whether ho Intended to do much more thut duy, and nbout how lung bo thought it wouid tako hitn to finlsh tho orcbard If ho wore exe ‘eused from morning prayers, and had his mouls ecnt out to him; aud then recurring to the fallen treo, ho Inquired, with considerablo directnens, who cut it down. George percelvoed tho chongo Inshls fathor's manner, but kept on trimming tho butt with his hatchot, and observed in bis chlldish way that the curcullo was a sore de- stroyer of eherey-trees; that tho frost sume- timed cut off vogetation with neatness and dis- patels; and thut only the duy buforo he had hourd a nelghbor's boy bragglog about now hntehet. At’ lnst, findlog hls futher unimaginative and little given tospoculutive philosophy, bho romnrked that, inasmuch us he found himselt unablo to tell a lie suceessfully, ho was cou- vinced thut hunesty, under the clreumstances, wns tho best policy, and he would trankly ad- mit that the performnnce which his father had Just witnossed wus not an optienl Hluelon; and, tuking tho puternal hand,—~or, vice versd,—ho en- terod tho house. s In tho parlor-concort which followed, tho Tathor of bis Country, promptod by the Grand- father of his Country, executed the recitativo stacento and erescendo In admirable style, and, withont waiting for un cncore, retired early to the seclusion of his littlo bed, musing ou tha past, and trusting that in this cnse bistory would 1ot ropent itsolf, T'hus, for u trifling tmpeditsent In his epecch, our hero wus switohod oft the lino of hortioult- ural industry Into tho oxamplo businesy, Imter in lifo ho wus married to ono Martha, tho Mothor of her Country, nn excmplary and stately mutron who doubted that it was moro blussed to glvo thun to recelve, and compro- mléed tho matter by giving receptions, His wife, howover, with his farewoll nddress amcd fulap teoth, belong to the Iater years of his lito, nnd it {8 not proposed at this time to traco tho vomoter canscquences of his birth, Returniog thon to his childbood, are there not somp lessons o be drawn from it Inpldeuts which are worthy ot ourstudy? When oxam- ned i tho light of this history how trunspuront are Bome of tho popular dolusions of to-duy! 1l coutd not toll u lie,—we have hls own word for thiat,—and yet ho succeeded fn pohtics. Can wo longor ndhcro to tho modern duetrino of politieal necesaities? Wo learn, too, thitt notwithstandiug occasiunnl oxcoptions to the rule, virtue hath its own roward, Georgo told tha truth uboutthe chorry-troo und sutferud for s thmo In consequence; but to-duy w great clty bears bls namo a4 a tributo to his truthful- ness, und <lings to tho truth with u fmthfulness wortliy of [t nume. It s caslor to toar thobave trom its mnther thun to gut tho truth from that clty. Ho told tho truth and sulfered; but a wrateful pople periedically. tulnks of rulsing o wonnmont to bis memory, und ho has bequonthed his numo very generally to the posterity of othor patriots, Of courso It 18 not Intended by roterenco to this grand oxamplp to indlcute thut Washington might not huve achieved finmortality by othor menus, or tbat no Americun youth can hupe to reallzo s district-school sanbition auvo by coms monviug un chorry-trcos, Wo buve moralized in valu If this beourconcluslon, Worathorchioosa 10 bellgve that tho mothod 18 unlmportunt I the prineivle Lo folowed; that it would probably uswop the purposo us woll to rob u hen-roost gy steul o watermolon, provided, nlways, the doed bo confessed IF nocessary, Lot tho bovs of to- duy dtudy the oxample of this noblo youth, who tuld tho truth bocause ho could not toll u lie,and wo shalt not luck matoriat for Presldents. ———— ‘Tue elause attaclhied to the will of Judge Fopes begqueything $200000 to tho Town of Northumpton, Muss, for 4 publle libsury, by wlch tho clorgy are excludud fromn avy share fu its unogemont, 4 oxciting much adverso commnent. Tho Judge's viows on the subject are thus recordur Historles of differont religions may find an ap- propriuto place in thia dopurtiuent,” It bus boen uscertained that thore aio butweon S0W and 40w ditferent systems ot religlon i oxistepcy, But, us u yoneral rule, theso uro tho luvontlony of citnniug men or the vagaries of semi-lunutics Ulunklux oldly aud tmpudently in the huwe of od, of wbogy deciuos wid purposey they know us littloas tholr moat Ignorant victims. 3t is woulth and powor on tho part of the pm‘rhu, ‘igaorance and poverty un tho past of the discls " this elegant and roflned passion." ples, [t has been my alm to_ place within reach uf the Inhabitants of a town i vhioh | hnvitlong 1tved, and plvnmmlle’, tho means of learaing, If thay are 8o disposed to lenrn, tho marvelons de- velopment of modern thotght, and 1o onnble them tojudge of the daatiny of tho race on sci- entilio evidence rathor thnu metaphysienl e deneo alone, The Iniportanea of tho educition of tho peoplo cannot be ovorrated. 1t will be foand tha moest efliclent if not the only protec- tion ngainat the jucreasc of n forclgn supersti- tion, whoso swarma of pricats, Jeauite, mottka, ministers, and agents nro let loose upon us unid cnuaged iy the unhaly work of enslaving the minds of tho muititude, and molkding thom o nateaments of priestly power, s power baiit upon the remnbus of wnclent Paganiam and sus- tatne d fn ono partlcular at least by gross Fotl- chism, 1 power growlig out of o MoNsirous per- vorsion of the procepts and exampio of the Founder of Christianity by which poverty, Jowli— ness, nnd self-nbnegation ere foreed to mean worldly grandeur, ohormous wm\lm\n alnes absolution, and nu enrthly crown, A8 theeou 1rnst, 80 the stntagonizm miist aiwnys remain b tween enlightened frecmen and the progeny the lnlr’lu nnd searlet-elnd mother, Let it ho tteaply dhgrven In the miud that no strictly Ttamnn Catholle over wes or ever can be a frea coutrs. Tii Philadelphin Thnes says amusingly of tho controversy betweon the Natlon and Tae CiteAno TRINUNE 88 to Mr. Blaino's qualiffen- tlons for tha post of Sccrotary of Stato: ‘Thoe Natton holda that Mr. Blaine Is dlsqunli- flod for tho poat aasiguied him in Gnrfleld's Ad« niinistration beeauso ho is not w luwyer, and beenuse ho has never been identitied with any considerabl re, and beeutse ho hus never boen abrond. THE TRIBUNE hus casy onough work in brushing the Inwyer plen aside,~a rliliculous quibble at best,—nand then reminds tho Natfon that trom 161 until 180 Binine's handie wark 13 visibleonall tho legisintion that passed,— Adoubtful complimont, rooitiing the extenordl~ ary ennetments that emerged from those heats cd'and hateful sesslons. But It nlso recalls, what wus to tnine’s credit, tho defent of tho Injquls tous force laws, due almost wholly to Blaine's hostility. Ho far ns quidliications go, Blafno will ‘be ono of the best-equipued stuternen that have held the post llmpuncnl sluce Danlel Webster, Mo thimilton Diey swis n renpectibio. Seoratars of State by genernl agreenent, but be woutd nat be conafdored In aptitudes the equal of tho admirnbly-cquipped Benator from Maino, Mr. Bluino will not shirk tho responsibility for the * extraordinary cnnctments’ referred to, Such ns they nre, tho Republican party long ago shouldered then: Ix nfiswering a correspondent who objeets to tho memborship of the present Hougo of Rop- resoutatives as too Jurge, tho Now Yurk Tribune Anys: . ‘Tho populntion of tho Unitcd States s now ovar 000000, and i llnuse of 201 Representu- tives Is not too lurge, Witha popuiation greator than that of any Buropenn Stuto thut has n rep- resentative Assémbly, this country hus u smaller number of leglsintors than any of the wrent Powera, The following table ahows the numbor of Iteprosentatives ln the popular Chawbers of tho princlpnl Stntes: gruu: Britaln, Huly. Wgnry. Prnsghl‘y B Gornnny Austriu, Canada,.. . Iy the Massachusetts 1louso of Repre- sentatives the bill for eallsthonle, gymnastic, and militury ariil fn publie schools, whick was rejected on Monday, was rescued from its futo Ly Col, Higginson and ordered to a third read- ing, Wendell Pnlllips opposcs it ina letter, in which ho suys: Exerclso {8 ono thing. Tralning cvery chilil for military servico and inoculating him with mmulr{ tuste and longlngs is ontlrely nnothor; and 18, beslde, very Ynlpcrly and gravely objee- tionablo to u lurge cluss of right-thinking men. 1t 18 tho worat form of tyranny to compel such porenta to forego tho ndvantagos ot the publle schivols, or nllow such mischicvous futerferenco with their clldron, —————— “THE author of ‘Solld for Mulhooly’ Is Mr, Rufus ¥, Shaploy, a well-known nttorney and politician of this city, and the boldest und ablest of the chumplons of Mayor Stokloy In tho contest just closed.” The Philadelphin ZYmes mnkea this announcement, and snys further: * What Mrs, Stowo's * Uncle Tom’s Uabin' was to slavery und what Judge Tourgée's *Fool's Er- raud’ Is to Bouthern reconstruction, Mr, Shup- loy's *Solid for Multooly’ 18 to municipal mis- rulo, It s the keenest and most pollehed polit- {cal satiro of tho ugo, and (¢ wag ono of tho most potent of all the many factors in tho reyolution ‘wrought fu thig oity," ——— A Loxnon corrcshondent, writing of tho abominnble tomperature of the thoatres, and especlally tho one in which Mr. Bootk hus heon acting, writes: The ley ntmosphere of tho thentre, especlally behfud the Accngu. bas so affected .MrFIluum. moreover, that ho often unconsclously rubs hiy heuds to keep thom warm while he 18 beforo the nudlence,—and o the cold ho lnruol{ attributes what ho declires to bon faot, that ho hus not yet noted Othello horo to his own satisfaction, 1y neting of this part, ho says, i8 ouriously de- pundent upon his physical conditlon and tho moud ho ehances to bel e — e Ex-S8uNAToR S1ymox CAMERON, having trav- cled by rall to Fgrnandina, Fla,, salled from thiero for Cuba Inst Wednesduy. Of hisobserva~ tions In tho South ho suys: Tho plantation systein I3 brokon up all ovor tho Bouth, though somo of theso people hold on to the fden that tho old duys are to roturn when A nan cun cultivate great scetions of land by broxy, and livo upou the lsbor of elaves. 'That ‘will fiover be ugnin, and these peoplo must dli- vido up their lunds. Tho prosperity of the Boutl wii depend very inrgely upon what the small planters do In rafslug cotton, growing rice, und Droduclog othor staples, ————— WiATEVER can the matter bo with the Now York Post? In an cditorial paragraph cors recting a stutomont of tho New York Tribune which attributed a wetl-worn ancedoto about Elllstou to Liston, tho ['ost snys: ° Rtebert Willinm Elliston was no more like Lis- ton than—well, than the chicf owner of u noted stuck-Jobbiug journal Is llko an honest man, ‘What had Liston and Elliston ta do withstock= Jobblng journals? pcie S . Lonp Caxrnstr foll in love for the first time at 41, and, though rejested, wrote to a friond: *“1I can ounly suy, with Gibbon, that [ feol dearcr to myself for huying been capablo of How 1fuch moro should tho Daroness DBurdett-Coutts by pleased with her romautio solf, usks the Torouto Utobe, —_— PERSONALS. When an old Dumfries man henrd that Thomas Carlyle was dead e romarkod: * Ay, ay, ho was u decent tman, Tumwmas; did ho leavo ony monoy, think yor' Michael Davitt I sald by n London pne por to be strikingly hondsomo, but 1t 18 n sfu- nificant facs thut this ftent waa not startod until Michuel was on tho opposition slde of u prisons door. » Kven mnrrlod life is not without Its troubles. Viunlo Roam Ifoxle 18 guing to muke a hust of her busband, §lo will not be the first mau that has gone on a bust beeause of lovely woma, *Unnumbered sumniors o within my hieart,"” choerily sings a Wisconsin young ludy In tho first lino of « poem sent to this oftice. This is iudeed good news. It tho younx lndy will only come down bere and lend us & sumier or 1wo, or aven a warm spring, her memory will always bo held In esteem by the residents of thig elty, - ‘Where tha rivor secks the cover Ot tho troes whose boughs bang over, And tho slopes aro greon with clovor, In the quiet muntb of May; Whero the eddies meot aud mingle, Lnbbling o'er the stuny shlugle, Thoro 1 angla, Thore [ dunvle, All tho duy, —Vico-Prestdent Wheder, “Thoe present winter has been agrand season for mutch-muking, Tucked under tho snmo robo with u pretty wirl and tho muslo of slelgh-bolls fn bis car, tho temptation is tao strong to reslat, A maun who would not make love undor auch clroumstancus does not deserve much happincss In thiy life, Thero bave beon moro wodudings this wingoer the countryovor than ovur ocourred in one senson. Guod times doubts less had somothing todo with it, but * tho beau. titul snow' and tho long elelgh-rides bavo donu more,"—Powerful Editurial by Charies A, Dana. 2 Taul Doyton, the celebrated swlnmer and fuventor of the rubber Jife-presevving sult, Is benieved to have fullen avietim fn tho war between Peru and Cbill, Last full ho entered into 4 coutruct with the Government pf Peru to superintend a torpedo gervice, for which be re- colved u munificent remuncrution. Nothing bus been heard from hita sioce Christmas, although previous to that time he wrote weekly to an fn- thmata frieud in Philadelphia, In bialast letter bo {nclosed bis will, and stated that the enemy ~ gy andd that e Hivye not wurvive tha finpending Tngpee 20 %o rilerer: i e bl Friends with g 0 one bedteved to have been kilod, e Moty ‘The ndvent of Me. wit Mrs, By, (Mh, Seovel, nds uuu.-.men..,rl;lal.}:.""' rove] Beon hallodd eith Jox by the Enetionany, 0 bts Nfer, Frauco, Ms. Seavot shrmp 7 of mnntinéos, rondered wo brillunt by s, o 0%l Incompurnblo Hyehd tenor vajee, a0 quiten thelll of pleasire thioughog, L s On the 24 0 Junuuey, 1o vary iy ppre o0 nents, an elegunt AGee partg of Qe Rond was given in honor of Mr, thmnl’l_" e of Now York. Tha mem, hiciuling n g 5% cardons whioh requires wrent cnra a peyn, 2 and the use of wnny Aleves of virions <‘I‘:- ) of noness to prepire, has furnisio g A Kastronomlo conversation for may days. S0 “eourse,” ideed, Was o mnsterplece af ey art. RULLONS OF every 1o, us sonvenir nrm"y ocenslon for tho Indles, wero tied whogt the), o Iy bouquets which Nico affordy, wity the ;'“' uamo, und *Nizen” printed o' silver. g, 1% dinner Mrs, Scovel was ntticed n Worth it L] of Fuby sntin, With Court trafu of siopty < bossed rubs volvet, dimond stars i thy o peudant and solitntres of dlmopds—gome ence New York Homo Journal, Wk, ‘The Now York Trihine of Sunda, “Crril Bearle, an nctor, applicd Yesterdy Judige MeAdarg in tho Marino Court rh«mlryw to open i Judgment Qe $230.15 taken by mer:,( nan notion brought sguinat hin by 4\10“)” Qustlan. Tho nppllcation wus hased on gy erouad that the defondant wns n forelgaes (08 Ignorant of Amerlean law and Itg form ot ;,:5 cedure. Mr. Searlo says in nix fccompanyf, aMmdavit, ' T was playing at the Stamlapy 1‘hcn\rll the part of n very intemperute may \rlmnm\ltl' died from tho offccts of tho usc of nlcopy, liquors, In the performanco of thiy pm'; porteayed tho deat of a man (n tho hortars op dellriui tremens, Tho offuet ipon wy noryou, Bystani was very depressing. and on thoday g ceeding each porformunce I was in i vory g citnble, nervons state, and was unit for the transuetlon of business. It wis under such, clrcumstances thint 1 was served with thg sum. mond In the ense, nnd, seelig 1o Judge' namy nor tho seal of nny cotirt nitached 1o 1 deemed It of no Importance and destroyedjor Judge MoAdant eaid thit bo would neriait thy defaule to bo opened und Mr. Bearle to Mt ing defcuso upon the payment of $15 COStS, In orler ta prevent the possibllity of injustice, Althoughy enso of rellef bad not been strivtly made gue ‘This Is George Washington's birthday, Georgo was tho Fatlior of hls Country, Lt of nothing elae, 8o farns known. He {8 well ang favorably known ns having had the extremo cheek npon oue ocension to stato thut he could not telt a lle, and n good deal hns been made of this faethy superficlal persons who have e tempted to write about Georze. 1t 18 no pare tieular credit to n mat to be unable to tell g ey —that {8 simply acquired grentness; hut n man who enn lle and doesn't deserves notice, Georgn was in command of the Amcriean army during the Warof the Revolution, and for a timg fy looked aa if wo should be clenned out by the pampered hirelings of an cffeto nonarchy; buy one cold winter, when the British army got 10 Valley Forgo nnd found George and the vest o the boys subsistiug malnly on snowballs gnd bright hopes of tho future, they concluded (v Wwus no use to keep up tho striyggle any longer, and went home. Washington's numehns always been mixedup in the hatehet nud cherry-trea eenndal, but his friends do not belleve hisintene tlons In the matter to bave been bad. After bringing tho Rovolution to n successful close, Georgo was twice eleeted Presidont, and sinco thon hus hud four trotting-horses named aftes Lim,—un Bonor belleved to huve Leen enjoyed Ly no othor mun. Georgo wae born on tho 24 n‘lul"nbrunry. 1332, and {8 conscquontly 149 years old, : Y Saysy ——— PUBLIC OPINION. Philndelphln Times (Ind.) Buch a position n§ wo are woulin' more than 2 por cent. Thiladelphin Dulletin (Rep.): Mr. How- clls cames to bis roward ns a blographer at the closo of tho lnyes Adminlstration, nnd he goes toan oflico the sninry of which Is only 5,00 a year, but its work fa light, and Ierne 13 o fine, centrul plnee for an American literary man, cupociully in summer, wnon all varioties of tho toirrist genus, Amorlean ns well ns l'}\lru[mlrly gathor in Bwitzortind, Mr. Howells will there find fresh materials for tho delieate, witty ro- wmances and littlo comedios In which he excels all Amerfean and Hurn‘mun contemporaries, It ali tho Oblo men appointed to ollice wero as worthy a8 Mr. Howolls, wonld object to them, Jowa State Reglster (Rep.): A privata fete ter from o gentlenun in Woshington to the editor of the Hcyisler snya: “Ir the Secretary of tho Treasury is taken from the Wost, Fenatcr Alllson will bo the wmnm. If the Treusury it filled with an Enstern wman, Senator Kirkwood will be tho Jowa membor of the Cabiuet, and wiil have the Post-Ottice or the Tuterior, | eans not quote my wuthority, but Inm suro of what I Huy, und you m% put It on record,” There 8 no doubt that Senutor Allison, If tic gocs Into the Cabinut Ut ull, will go In against nis oxn wiil, but at n bigh purty behest which ho would not feel willing to diseegurd. Ho will be colled upan, if at all, to go into the Treasury. Whitelaw Reid in an address at Xenin, Fob. 15: I'wo years ngo, boforo tho Convention of Uhlo editors, I ventured the prediction thaty whichever purty succoeded, the next President, too, would ba an Oblo tun, Oue party missed it opportunity by fulling to nominate the oos muu, clean, Incorruptible, able, patriotic, whom it bad a falrchunce to elect. So, of course whon Henry I, Puyne, of Clovelund, was uot numinated by tho Domoerats, thore was nothing for tha couniry to do it elect the distinguisael cltfzon of Mentor, who had been nominated by tho ltopublicans. Now., u httle furthor tn al+ viee, let us hizurd anothor non-prtisan pre- dictlan, and challengo tho horror of tho foclely for tho dutection aud expusury of Ohlons, by lloulul’lul{ that the Btate which b country Urant, und luyes, and once more furnish thoe President in Ji 'The London Saturday Revicw: ‘The save ago brutality of tue Ameriean Pucltuns truibe Tully tolil would afford one of the most signif: cant and profitabto lossons that history coubd teach, Champluns of liberty, but merclless ssd unprineiplod tyrunts; fugltives from persecds tlon, but tho most senseless und roekluss uf per- secutors; clulmunts of un enlightoned redglon but the lust upholders of the oruct nud luuorand creed of tho witeh dootors; whinlg aver forogity of thu Indlun, yet outdoiug that ferec ty a hutndredfold; complnining of his treacheesy yet, us thoir descendants hive buen to tbls &y trencherons with o deliborato lmlmurema(m plighted fulth such 1y tho [ndluns huve seldu Wi Tngland {n pay a penny 10 reasonablo person 8ho! ho anceatom of tha beros of tho levos Tutionnry i ot the Clvil War might be brld up exumples of tha a Calyloistie e e power e ligiou wnd u bikuted ltapublicantsi v dewof- dze fuly nvorage specimens of a ruco ‘; !v‘m under botter (ntluonces, hus shown “’“!I‘o( lonst eruel, lenst trencherous, least tyrannical thio muster races of the world. Now York Tribunc (Rep.): O. Tumet will llve forevor in the hearts of bis muun_’(r mew. O, Turner nobly voted agaiust tho n_uum and Harbor bill, though hels from tho bul‘l“_ und his Stata bad soveral promising l!fl brooks provided for in the blll, I Turner YO for tho blll~of course. Mr, Rewgun, 18 mx‘:: had charyed that 0. Turnur voted 'munsl o bitl from * parsimonions motives," usif it a1 uot of porsonul gencrozity 1o voto for 8o lel; propriation bill, whereas wo yenture '"‘,‘.‘n’wn that Mr. Rongan never pald an approhiby, LU out ot his own pocket fu ubl bls ulllfh:n lho O, Turnor dofended bimself yaslcrdy') tHiote Houae, and snid his voto wus dio to Imu‘ . ban und not 1o © purshuonlous ‘:[“:{‘ulld\‘d Butwodo _uot find thay T, Bureype G555 bimself, The man who yoted S0 Py proposition that Jumes A, Gurfeld uln ibis elected President must huvo known thil, 1151 cusy, wolf-dofenso was fmpossible. O THRCE had been retlected. 1 Tu T hns ~“muu The moral I8 olear.—a ‘m et clearer identity of the respeotive Turners. 5 oy wad Now York Natlon (Ind.): DUT:‘L:“, oneol thoinost disroputably of tho Ar! el curpot-bugeers of the reconstruction {M" and bls vonneotion with theState ",‘"""'Lm swindle wus {nvestiguted by & L"'f‘",,‘m.-m- Commltteo (u 1574, uud exposod, 1€ w0 WECCS ber rightly, fu the sumu yeur by Tue el PBUNE. Dorsoy vigorously lhreulmumuw ™ sult, but carefully rofralnod trom bF o aeatly though the proprictors of tho l““'“"f.,umuv- inyited Lim to {ome on. Lin wppEUE ey rotury of the Ropublioan Nuuional CHEG W0 thiught nt thu tine most uufurtunite, Gy could Lo galdof bim that ho wis DTG, g, worse thun Buroum, the mnmunnhl!‘: tho Pres* 18 porformunces with forwed curds It BE ovy Sdentinl cunvuss in thig city und Brosty G, alrewdy boen shown up in those cold foaerited D CAr Wetty, " iiis fronds snd contelsly of vight to huve beon content wih m-‘f'oz bim decent peopie during thy eatyuss, | T ey # publiv dinuer w honor of biswode oF 10 . ing ndtan 7 wnd of bis genoral careers B ys sult thew, The worst featuro of ‘t’m kind of tho freah’ Wiustration it ulfordd ol the KL g0 usos flun.Brunl:.nlluw;blgxl:'eullhm”'l‘;, “Wd s capeotablo mou n ot 'Fo dia with norsey iF Gon 0rant FA font hils naro ta sturt the enter TR thesa things will not be Jost on Giew