Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1881, Page 4

~ " Conkling will ceaso his opposition to Stanley * Matthews for the Supreme Court and nllow vette.” _entertainmont. 4 e Tribme, TERMR OF SUNSCRIPTION Y MAU—IN ADVANCE—I'OSTAAF PREPATD, intly edition, one sear. . 19,00 'Rt of n year, por mont! Tinily and HBundav, one Puesqag, Vhirsiny, and SAtirinY, por ven Mondny, Wedhe n{. and Frifdny, por yea tunday, 3bepnue eddition, peryon: . WEEKLY EDITION—POY’ One enpr, per {lub ol hive, Twentyeon o fecimen e ont o8, 3 Uiyt Fusi-0fied nddeoss I full, teiuding County and Stata, Hemittaneas ma_ he madn althor e drast, 6ERLOSY Foat-0flico opor Or in rogietarad [ntter, st our Fiss. TO CITY HURACHINERS, Dafiv.dniivered, Bunday oxenpted, @3 can'aprr wont. il dolivored, bunddy incindod. 0 ooty or weok. Addrens TR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Lornor Madisnn and Denrborn-sts.. Liticazo, (1t d et e TPONTAGE, Eviered at the Post-Oficent Uhicagoy, fity as Stcods Glass Matler. oAt ot our pairons who desiro to sond nh!’r?n’-‘:“»"fi“m"rfin "PRNUSE thrpuah th math o &ivo hotawith tho transion’ Fate O pustaie: Domestie. Fipht And Twelve Pago Pupar, Bixtesu 'age Papor., Furetgn, Fightand Tweive Page aper., Bixteon I'age Faper. TRIBUNE Is1t) reAGn PRINUSE hae catablishol branch ofvaen fon th pacotit 0. subsoripfions aud advortiso- ments as follnwa: NivlY YOUK—Noom 8 Tribune Buliding, F.T-Mo FADDEN, Manager. v GLAKGOW, Scotand—Allan's American Nows Agener, 81 Rentiold-st LONDON, Eng.—Amorican Bxchange, ¥ Btrand, UENIY . GILLIG, Aol W ABULNLION, D. L, il OFFICES, Footey's Randolph atréat, botwoon Clark and Lin @alle, En- gazemont of the Comioy-Barton Company, *Uil- MeVieker's Thentre, Maditon sreot, Letween Siate and Doarborn, ment of Do Hdauplan's Fronch Opera Cowme Carmen.” @rand Opera-Ilouse, Clork street, oppaste now Conrt-House, ment of Fredoriok PPaulding. * Hamlot! Engage- Tenveriy's Thentea, Fedrporn streot, coener of Monros, ** Widow Dae dote." Otpwote Thentre, 8 clare strdep. hefween Lake and Randofuh. - gagement of'1tyde & Behman's Comody Company. “Muiaoon's Plenle” Acndems of Musle, Talstod strect, near Madison, WestBida. Varloty e MONDAY, MARCHL 28, 188L Ixtho report of Friday's leglsiative pro- ceedings appears this somewhat Liind sen- tence: ** Among the measures advanced to a third reading in tho afternoon was one to pay Richard Sifunlek 855,625 alleged dam- .nges sutfered by the State's fallure to per- forin o contraot,” Fallure of whatcontraet? What contract hnd Shinmiek with the State whereby he expeeted to pocket $7 _clunn profit out of it? When was thls contract made, and by whom, on belinlf of the State, and when and why was it rescinded, nbro- gated, or violated, or whatever the act was? It must hinve been a protty large con- | tract to have afforded na certalnty of 885035 met .profit, Who I push- Ing this clalm against the Stato "Lronsury inthe Ifouse ? And why has 1t been sild alung to a third reading so gently nsto at- tract no publle notlee,—and nonotlee beyond a foursline, eareless, bllud ramark on venching its thlid reudlng® ‘Tue TmnusNe wants light. Thesum invelved Is as mueh ns an average county contributes to tho State Treasury in two years, Tue report which hna come two or three times Jutely from Washington that Judge Ttobertson’s name will be withdrawn as Col- lector of the Port of Now York if Mr, him to:be confirmad 1a too nbsurd for betlef, It would be disgrageful and reprehiensible, and-hence It 13 entirely Improbable that Pres- ident Garfleld desires to make any bargalu of the sort, or that Lo has been tritting with Judge Robertson.and his friends by sendlug his namo to the Senate In order to provoke n confliet with Mr, Conkling so s to make eap- ital for the nomination to thoSupreme Bench of a professinnal ralirond Iawyer, the nttor- ney of Jay Gould, and a Judge who would assist ln roversing the Thurman law requir- ing the Paclfic Railroads to pay n part of what they owe to tho Govern- ment. 1t would place the President In n po- sition that he could never ufford to vccuny, and would put hlin ot the merey of Conkling thereafter, If he has simply used Judge TRobertson as a folt, and intends to withdraw hlm to secure Conkllng’s support of Stanley Matthews’ contirmation, he would find that such o trade wonld Jose him friends a hun- dred tinies foster than ho made them. ‘The atory I8 too absurd for bellef, nud mny bo credited to the idle gossip and seusational Imuginiogs of the Bohemian tribe lu Wash- ington, Tur Cuicaco TminusNg of yesterday, of which 55,000 coples wero sold, wis o marvel In the matter of advertising patronage. 1t was & paper of twenly pages, containing 140 col wmns, and of these ahnost one-half were de- voted to ndvertisements, "o stato the cnss absolutely, there were by exnet measurement 10 less than slotyfour colwmns of advertis- dng announcements, obtauhned without drums ming, giving away circulation, rebato of half or two-thirds on regular rates, aunlversary dodges, or any other effort to make o special demonstration, Tho thonsands of ndver- tisers who sought “Lue Twisusg columus wero a natural lutlow attracted to the best advertlsing medium, Of this enormous amount, nbout twenty-soven columng con- tained displayed sdvertlsements, und thirty- seven columms were fillad with *want” advertisements, represonting overy coneoly= able want of the sociul, polltieal, religlous, oand business classes of this community, On Aprll 28, -1878, ‘Pur T'nmuxe had slxty-two culumns, This wis considered at the thno n great achlovement, and it was commonted on far and wido by other pupers as an eloquent Index of the business eunergy of Chicago, and Tue TIBUNE recelved many compli- ments upon Its valug as an wdvertlaing me- ditm. The sixty-twp columus of 1878, how- ever, appear almost jnconsiderable us com- pared with the atxty-four columns of yester- day, when the fucts inthe case are cousld- ered. As is well known, the Sunday before the 13t of May is the heaviest ndvertising doy of the whole year, and [n 187 the maximum was reached on that duy, Phis year that to- tal s surpassed by twe columna on the 27th of Mareh, and thero yet remain five weoks before wa resch May-duy, the 1st day of Sluy coming un Suhday, Of these flve days the heaviest advertlsing may be expooted upon the fourth,ethough we should not be surprisod If the fitth orowded It closoly, fies fore May moving beging, we are prepared to sue our advertlsing department run up to seventy-tive columna. Tne svectacls of a *“contest of physieal endyrance” In the Uulted Stetes Sunate Qver s fow trifling ofitees is nehier edifying nor dlgudied, und 1t §s very nearly ridicnlons, ‘S uere ure bu the Seato o numbur of venos- able gentlemon honors, wearing thelr gray locks in seanty bowed with yoars and fringes aboul thelr enrs, and coddling thelr health with patient nsslduity, whilo at the samo time they are Indulglng in the most terribly threats of eontinious nll-nkght ses- slons and trials of strongth, to say nothing of feats of arms, whieh would require for their fulillnent the vigor mid stnming of o Rowan gladintor, that up to this time the contest hna been wholly In the pages of the Itecord. 'The Senntors have not yet ewbuvad, *fit, bled, and died” for that Infinliesimal portion of their conntry which s comprised In tho paltry any overweening anxiely to begin, Some- how the Sennte s always adjourned, elther by the accommaodating earolesness of an absentee, or to oblige some vallant roul who wishes to speak but does not happen to have his digestive nrgans in perfeot condlitlon, Weo ate unnble to see the need of keeping np the hollow pretense of n trial of strength or of threatening to begln one, nothing, Tho Duemoeratle minority 1s not obliged to filibuster, It can stop vrocecdings ataty thne by deciining to vote. ‘The Re- publienns eannot posalbly muster o guorum for many days at least, Senator Edmundsts away for 18 heatth i Florkdng Cameron, of Pennsylvanly, Is Junketihe nt Yorklown; Dintt Is in New York bargniniug avout of- fleesy and there are soversl other ubsentees, 1t wilt hinve beon observed nate ofices, Nor do they exhibit It eat nmount to Until the Republican Senators are all back, which probably will not be during this ses- slon, 1t Is idle for the Republicany o Insist upon thelr motlon or for tho Demoerats to take the trouble to fllibuster ngalust it The Intter inay at any thne _hie away to the ves- tanrants and the clonk-romns and bring the Sennte to o complete standstill, or they mny sit in thoir seats and, by refusing to answer to thielr naneg, necomplish tiio same results, THE LIBRARY AKD ART MEMORIAL MEETIN Q. Tho speeches at the Musle-1Iall meeting Saturday night were remarkuble for two things, Flrst, for thelr cordlal nppreciation of the merlts of the Iublie Library; and, secotndly, Tor tho confesslon they made of the backwardness of Chicago Dy a1l kinds of esthietic works, On the first head It was hardly necessary to enlarge. Chlengo never knew what o publle JibMry was until the fire, by 0 curious parodox, created one, Yot tn nlne years the Library hus become so fnt- portant o loeal Institution that the marvel Iy how the city was abte to get on without it before, 1t Is held b such affectionatoregard by the people of all classes, conditlons, and bellefs that 16 nuty bo sald to have no en mles. Catholles nnd Protestants, Jews nid Gentiles, Itepublicans, Democrats, and Com- munisty take egual pride {n it and all are now or have béen represented i tho Board of Management ‘The vatue of the Public Library may be measured nmany different ways. My, Asny was unguestionnbly right in saying that, on the lowest standurd of peeuninry value, it was n good luvestmont, Mr. Storrs wns equally right In mabatainink that it had o wlsslon the nobility and worth of which could not bo estimated in dollars and cents, DBut us the latter relation of tho Library to the publis Is the mora obvious one, o thers was speeial proprlety in dwelling on the former. "Tho money value of sueh an Instl- tution conslsts i the lmpulse 1t gives to the study of tho mechanienl arts, the education it Indirectly and most economienlly confers, and the effect It has In purifylng the tastes and stimulating the ambitions of the people, and 5o Inerensing the efiicioncy of thelr lubor. “And if tho Publle Library Is a good thing, it Is worthy of a sultable home, ‘That is the toglenl deductlon. Why should our light be hid undor o bushel? or, In o less orthdox way, be concealed fu nthrge-story buck apart- ment? Since the Library 18 apuroved by all men, It deserves to be made convenlent and necessible. 1t is Impossible to havelt whatit ought to be while It remanins wheve it . Its usefniness can by more easily und Inrgely in- crensed by bringing it down to a ground lght and ventlintion, and securlty ngalnst fira than in any other manner whntover, But the nlluslons of some of tho spenkers to the deflelencies of Chicako Inall the menns of culture wers uven more noteworthy than tho pralses of the Library. Confesslon Is sald {0 b good for the soul, but it has not hither- to been good for the soul of Chicago, becruse she has stubbornty refused to confess, Whon fnguired about concorning her museums and art gulleries, her cltizens have turned tho conversntion In the diree- tlon of pork and lumber, grain, provisions, land, rallromds, manufactures, mid, in short, to anythlngz and everything but books or pletures, The truth is, that thera Is not a ¢ity in the elvilized world of the size of Chi- cago which i3 8o grossly material, so bound up in money-getting, tradiug, buying and sell- Iniz, and discussing the consequences there- of. Cincinnatl hins vastly superior advan- tages In art, musle, and literature, and hor socloty, painful ns it may be to say it, Is far woro cultivated, Lven St Louls, which is slow and unenterprising in most other re- speets, hus better colleetions of pletures and mare of them, o more widoly dlifused taste for such things, and better eritical judgment than Chicago hus or can hopu to have for many years, ‘These fucts wero recognized and publiely admitted for tho first time by several of the speakors Saturday night. M, Stores snid: ‘I'e time bus pussed when the City of Chivago enn plend Intanoy, business pursults, or pross of othor engagenionts us o doufenso for 1o total nugloct ot unything that jooks {a tha dis reotion of hntelluctial oulture. 1 oam thred of tho uniformity of its brag, [(.mmuwr‘)] 1am tired of buurlig tho enme thiug bruggud wbout alltha thae, 1 wm tired of bowng continunlly mbuded of tho viatnuss of rhy Btocks Yards n’uuumvr] of the oxtent of the gradn trudo, of tho _mugiltite of oue [nbor intervsts, and of tho enormous developinent of the pork trudo In this great comiaorelinl metvonolly, fLoud lnugh- ter] 1 want less of stuors and s of pork, and mure of culture, M. Chinirmun. Lo i vor of Lho pteers and the pork, but 1 bellove that out 1 thom Loth, und uut of thut raw, sruds woergy whlol has bulided upon the sharos of this splunie did inland son w olty tho marvel of tho worlil thura Alull grow o eultire a8 grand, a madills coent na thut great malerinl und pbysical prode purity hus berotofare beot. ¢ Prof, Swing went oyon further, and ob- served: There 18 perbnps only one cfty in tho world hnviug n populudon of u bult-miition wlong whosu Bfroets 1o tinvelor or eitizen ean find u #ingio atructuro buiit by luenl benvvolonce, Chicuyo bus tho bonor of belng that eity. Witl out a rival in tho graln trade, And lumbor trado, und imeat markot, (618 without a rival {n its con- tewpt of tho urts, Othior spuukers gave thelr testimony to the samo etfeet. Weare glad this was done, 1t had to be done bofore the peopds coulid be aroused to any realizing sunse of thelr needy. For the first step ju the direetion of supply- ing n want Is tho ndmlssion of fts oxistonce. 1t 1s & good slgn that lending cltizens of Chl- cago—luwyers, merchants, and divines—aro willing to get up und suy that the city needs somu things badly, for untlt the peoplo ate consclous of that fuct, and mortified and hu. milisted on nceount of it, us thoy ought to e, tho reproach will never be removed, Wo rogret that thers was not & moro prao- tieal tone nbout the spevches of Saturduy night, Many of them wors by long odds too talky. There should huve boen sumegenius ready with plans of organtzation, with meth- ods of subseriptioh, md withat feast a definit’ notlon of what kind of wbuilding was needs ed, how much money would be requlred to buitd Ity und wheve and how that money can bo rubsed, ‘Pheso questlons will come up at anen o the Execntive Comulites, 'I'o pube de will be ut least disposed o Insist that e floor and givinmit commodious rooms, ample ., THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1881 oppottunity for sutiseription shall be ad wide as possiblag that tho canvass af tho wholo clty shll be gonoral, and that the doltarg atid poennies of the boys and girly miul tho mite of the widow shnli be ns freely weleome ny the rleh man's eheek for # thousand dotlarg, (irent things may rveasonably be oxpeeted of the Committes that has been apgolnted, but It will bo well for them and all others to remember that the serfons work hing but just begun, From this thue ot everything will depend on organtzation, and on prompt and energetic action, Iho yesponsibility rests With then, THE EXNA‘I‘ORIM’. BQI;ASBLE. Tt 15 n disgracefut dquablle, ‘The Benato of the United States vecupying dny aftor dny “In & wenangle ovor the question who shall bo Dootkeepor presents a queer spectacle to the country and tlie world. It typifies tho fbsorbing greed of the Awmorican poll- tleinns for oflice,~oflico that nelther en- riches nor honots tho recipients, 1t ex- hibits the politieal maehine In its most ixno- blo aspeet. 1t dllustrates the eahkerons charaeter of the spolls system, showling at the smme thne the appropriatuness and the repulsiveness of Juckson's wphorlsm, *l'o the victors belong the spolls.” I'he disgusting nature of the spectaclo is Bbut slightly mitigated by tho fact that the Tiepublican Senators possessing n “constitu- tounl majorlty* haye the legal right to oust the Demoeratic Senatorfal servants and re- place tham with henchinen from thelr own ranks, ‘Tho Republlean Senstors say, through My, Hoar, that the attitwde of Dum- ocratie Senntors Is of a treasounble chur- ned fiee, 1 carrled to its extreme limits, it would resuit in the nbsolute defeat of atl leglslation, ant so parnlyze a department of the Government. But this does hot alter the fact that thero 1s no principle, no polley, nt stake at this thaes It Is o more strugglo for spoils of ofilee. Tho Demoeratle protoxt for thoubstruetlve course pursiud ks extremoly viclous fn this: 1t Is an Insistance of tho right of a political party (v control the vota of an assumed member of It nunint his avewed pirpose to nctindependently, Itisan effort to make the party machine supremo il so to stifle tho tast vestige of Individual opinfon. But this I8, after all, & mere pretext, not tho real ronson of the Democratle obstruetlve attitude, The brenk of Mahone from the Bourbon party is an accomplished faet. No Demoeratle Senntor belioves, for a moment, thut thy vote of Malione will ever bo glven in favor of n Bourbon orgunization of the Sen- ate. It follows that the attitude of the Demoerntic obstructionlsts has but a single motive: tho retention In ofllee of the em- ployés of the Sennte ngainst tho willof n constitutional majority of that body. And this course I8 entirely wanting In the rather poor element of cohsistency, The Democeratic party has nover falled to put n praetics Jackson's aphorism. When it secured o constliutional majority of the Sennte, it hastened to depose the Republican servants of the body and to replaco thewn with Democrats, Now it has lost its consti- tutional majority, but it deelines to permit the Republican party to put the Democratle theory in practice, ad to necomplish its pur- puge resorts to n measure which, it persisted into the end, In the mntter of legisintion would result In the destruction of the Uov- eriment, And all this has no higher motive than o desire to retain possession of certaln apolls of ofllee, The position of Democratie Seuators s wholly Indefensiblo. As well mlght they fustify thomselves in the refusal,In the ease of a Prestdentlal election, to take part I the connting and deelaration of the Ble oral vote, and s become responsible for an effort to defeat thepeaceruland constitutionnt successlon to tho Presidential oftles, The philosophy of the attltude of Demoeratle Senators 18 contalued in a single word— Bourbonism! Democrats learn nothing and forgot nothing, In 1861, when the Govern- ment passell from thoir control by strictly constitutional methods, they choso ¢lvil war rather than bo dispossessed of the oftices, Tn 1881, whon nn sdvorse mnjorlty appears in the Senute, they oppose to that’ majority brute foree. ‘The astonishing, incomprehen- sible thing sbout the Demoeratie party Is the fact that, notwithstanding Its shortcomings and follies, 1t still holds to Its standard near- Iy one-half the voling population of the coun- try. THE NEW CHINESE TREATY. The Commltteo on Foreign Relatfons hav- Ing fuvorably reported on the recont res Justmont of the treaties with Chinn, which muy be regurdedas the foreruuner of flunl confirmation, It will bo of Intercst to recall the substance of tho new refations which are to exlist between the two countries, espechally nsit Is now somo threo months since tho treaty was printed, and It may not Lo fresh in the reeoltections of our veaders, 1t s very brict,—containfug but fonr scetions. The firat provides that,whenever Chinese inmigr. tion nilects, or threatens to affect, the Inter- ests of this conntry disnstrously, the Govern- ment may regulato, hmlt, or suspend such Lnmigration or vesidence, but may not nbso- lutely prohibit; that such regulation shall be veasonnble, and apply only to Chinese who mny conie to the United States as taborers, meaning, of course, the coolles, other elassus not belug Included, The second section pro- vides that Chinese subjects, whether thoy come to the Unlted States ns toachers, stu- dents, morehants, or from curloslty, together with body or heusehold servants and Chinese Inborers now resident here, shall be allowed to go and eotno of thelr own free will, and shalt be accorded all rights, privileges, In- munitles, und exemptions which are accord- wd to citleens and subjeets of the wmost fa- vored natlons, The third provides that the United States Govermment shall proteet all Chinnman cither permanently or tomporarl- Iy vesiding here from maltreatment. And tho Inst provides that whun our Government shull have adopted legislative mossures In necordanco with the treaty they shall bo com- wunleated to the Chinvse Government, and It thoy work any bardship upon the Chinese then such hourdship shatl be considored by the fepresvntatives of tho two Governments, with tho view to Its removal, All the provisions of this treaty appear to Lo just, and oven deslrable tor this country, While this Government cannot absolutely prohibit Chineso immigration, it can regulute 1t o that it shall not unfuyorably affeet our Interosts, and this i3 w1l that could bo asked with justice; and this right of regulation covors tha class—that s, tho coolies—who have glven the most dissatisfactlon. 'The Government hna the rogulition of that elnss of laborers absolutely within Its power. Withsueh a power reaiding in ita hands, thero 18 no-danger that tho coolles will bo shivped over here in such numbers ns they have been In the paat, beeauso that would be un- reasonuble in the meaning of the lirst scction of tha treaty, Nor does logrant the vight of cltizenship, though it accords to the Chinese “ the rights, privileges, Inmunities, and ex- emptlons which are accorded to cltizens and subjects of the most fuvered nations,” evie dently meanbng thut a Chinese subject hero can have Just tho sumo rlxhts as o British or French subjoct. Lven If it hud uccorded the right of citlzenship, it would have been In contravention of law, the Courts lave Ing two or threv thmes lately declded that cltizonship can only appertzin to whites, or members of the Caucaslan race, ‘I'he resi- dence of thoss now with us Is not affected, sn that lttle Immediato rellet can domo to | thethowling pack uf the Kearney sort, But when the sourcs of supply Is eut off the nitmber hers must diminlsh by death, and In 18:0 thero d return, and natural ca were G3,954 Cinwmen In this conntr now there are 103,019, but slueo ! have coms hete, Under this hew regulution there I3 no danger that tho supply of Chinn- men {n this country enn ever serlously nifeet our labor interests, sud the prasent supply ean hardly b gonsidered dangerons so long ns tho Guvernment Is ab Hberty to regulate the fresh necosslons, Thoremalning partsof the treaty are In necordanco with ordinary humanity and justlee, dnd thero does not seenti to bo ahy good ressot why the Sonnte ahiould not promptiy eonficm the now treaty, TR TREASURY AND THE MATURING DEBT. "The I'resident las glven formal announce- ment that an extra session uf Congress will not be ealled,~cettatuly will not e ealled to meet beforo November next. Tho country will tejolee thiut the Presiilent has been able to reach thls dpterminatlon, and that the pertls and peunliles of u six months' session hoye been averted, - I'he only ronson why thero snould bo an uxtrasession wits the suppoyed energeney cansed by the fallure of Congress 1o puss the bill authorizing the funding of the hearly £700,000,000 of 6 and 5 por eent bonds which fall due in May and July of this your, und betore the meeting of the regular seasion of Congress. At the worst, this could unly sub- Jeet the country to the loss of tho differenco between the present rate of Interest and that nt which the new bonds might be tssued, Thotper cent bonds whl be netuatly dug, white In the ease of the 5 per conts the privilege of the CGovernmment to pay them attuehes, No onels domunding payment of elthor cluss of bonds, It now seems that the ‘Lrens- ury Depactment I8 clothed with power to make such arrangumonts as will onable the Government Lo pay off the ¢ per cents, and even o part of the 8 per cents, The total debt falling due in May and July, 1851, aumounts to §6i 5507 of this sum only $203,60,000 nre kn 6 per cohts, while the raininder—S4000,050—are In the 5 per cents, ‘Thers Is In the T'reasury niwnys n largo sum of money held as a reserve to meet current Jiabilltles, and the sum so re- served 18 equal o the sum of tho Habilities, ‘Tho Treasury finds that it Is only necessary to Jeew 40 por cont of this fund instond of 100 per cent, and under this discovery there are $40,000,000 retensed and subject to use by the Seeretary, At tho sume time there are $105,000,000 of nuthorized 4 per cent bonds yot unissued, und which the Scerotary may sell at 11, thoroby realizing nearly $118,000, 000, of which 13,000,000 will be clenr galn; Lut these+ por cents It issued will not be ro- deemable untll 1097,—a torm of twenty-six years henee, It further appenrs that under the nets of Congress In 1863 and 1504, passed during the Wat, and nutil now forgotten, the Seere- tary of tho 'Treasury may borrow for such term as he inny s $160,000,000 aud {ssue cer- titicates therefor ot a rate of fnterest not ox- ceeding 5 por cont. It Is further supposed thut the surpius revenue of 1881 will equal $100,000,000, ‘L'akine ull theso itoms together, the T'reasury Department finds Itself anthor- fzed and supplied with resourees by which it cananeet the whols sum of the outstanding ¢ per cent bosids, and nlso ncet o large portion of the 6 per cents, The resources ure as fol- lows: Custi In Tronsury nvaituble. 000,00 Lonu oo sortitioates 0,00 Surplus rovenus.... 000 e 100,000,000 Total.... . This fs without making any sale of the $105,000,000 4 por cents on hand, T'he Secretavy lins in this authorlty to make o temporary loan n falr opportunity to test the value of money in tho country, Ie may offer an Issne of 3 por cents, or 814 per cents; or lie wny offer tho certlticates at par tothose offuring to take thewn at the lowust rate of in- terest: or ho muy offer thon at not less than par nt 334 per centto the highest biadoer, the bidding to be open to all persons, Of course these certficates are to be redeemed by or convertible Into bonds at such rate of inter- est a8 Congress may n year hence establish for the perminnent loan. It 18 possible that this offer of these cortiflentes will ellelt such Information concerning the valng of money a8 will ennblo Congress to reach an Intelli- gent concluslon in fixing tho rate of Interest ot that permanent loan. The late Congress Inglsted on Mmiting the rate to 8 pereent, nnd this meroly ns guesswork, amd without any assurance that the loan nt such a rato could bu successtully made. At all ovents, the Treasury wiil ba ablo, with the means at Its dlsposal, to meet tho full amount of tho o per eents talling due, and may furthor by able during tho summer and fall to meut from §50,000,600 to $100,000,~ 000 of tho 5 por cents, The sle of tho $105,000,000 of 4 per cents ot the prgsent high _premlum hus been strongly ufzed ns o wlso polley, This sum of 4 per cents would produce In round figures $118,000,000, and wonld serve to pay off that mueh of the debt, theroby galuing 811,000,000 0f principal, and stopping Intorest on the same amount, But thers seems to by an obfection to this poliey at the ‘Tronsury, and on what ground the objection rests we donot know, It may by that the Treasury holds thut resurve of 4 por cents to. proe teet the l'veasury agalnst any flnene elal disturbance that might threaten tho purmanency of specls payments, or It may bo that the objection Is to tho bisug of 4 por cunt bonds hav- g twenty-six yours to run, whenu year heneo Congress may direet the issne of short bonds ut 8% por cent, In elthor cuse tho salp of 4 per cants does not seem probuble under existing elremmstances, ‘Cho country will rejuleo to know that no serious dittlenity Is Ikely to result from:the fallure of Congress to pass tho Funding bill Tus fiend who pursists In inquliring of the NOWBPUPERS Whit wis tho papular vole east for Presidont last November (s not yot oxtirpated. ‘Ihore is probubly not & nowspuaper editor by the country who bus notnuswered thisquestion, pube Holy und privatoly, 500 thnos since the lust elee. tlon. A great burdon of guilt for this sad stuto of aifaira rests upon the Clucinnatl Enquirer and tho Buitimore Sun, wiieh lately printed sinul- tancously an erroncous tablo omitting neurly 10,000 votes cant for Gartield [n Loulstung, and %0 reopenud the whole question, 1t §s propor, thou, tu say thut sfuce thoso Dumocratie Journats ®uve tholr faldo roturna to tho pubtio, Mr.* EBd- ward MePherson, editor of the Now York Tribune Almunue, has gone over ull hls Bgures patioutly wgdn, nud bus roportud the following lunl re- wult, which la lutor than that gtven in tho Al. manac: 4450421 4,410,150 Garilold's plurullty.. cevens . BEG Stilimore recontly—In fact, within tho last week—wo huve recolvod tho Amorican Almanie, edited by Alnaworth It 8palfued, tho Livrarian of Cungress, und it gives the following vote: QGurllvid, Huneouk. Weuver Qartleld's plurality,... Dut b, Bpotford, In & {00 o bo bas not included in rho total for Uurield tho wvotes cast Lor the Republivan Heatty Eiectors in Loulefunn, numbering U740, whilo bo has ored- fted to Huncock S1674 voted oust for Hoadjuster Elvotora {n Virgiuis, and all the Fuslun vate In Malne, Itfeubad rulv that doosu't work both ways. Mr. Bpoftord bus also omitted tho votws of soveral ouunties iu Tuxas uot ulliviully re- ported. 1f the votes for thu Boeatty Electors, ull of whom wure Gurtleld uon, wero added tu the % - — othors, and the Tdxad 1lemoctatle votos sub- tracted, Mr, BpoTord's table would agree sub- stantinlly with Mr. MoPherson'a, As Tnw Tnin- uNKwas the (irst Joneadl whioh collocton the Ataticties on this subjoet and publistied thom, it has lind apecint apportiniitios of Judgtng of the neeurney of the publiahed returns. from ench States und It belleves M, MePaerson's rovisad tible to bo ns nenrly correct us It 18 possiblo to nnke stteh n statoment, For nll pructieal pur- posod it is absolntely gruo and tinal, e —— Gov, Luw WALLAct, who (s about to os- changa his home iy New Mexico for ono tn Paras guny, hns Just given to o newspaper correspotid- unta tlatterlg deseription af the Tereltory which ho has lived for sdvernl years pnst. In spenking of the minettl vesoureos of Now Mexe fey, the Qavernor sakd: Smu)' repgut tho opinfon that this Territory el el ot murpass, o nelghbora In hor yleld of varlous proe Ir.nunlumn and ranges, g und mining bus wirend wo may taok for resuita, s metils within hur ho work of prospeot- “ Fuirly 8ot fu, und avon lerotofore & virioty of enuaea have contributed to prevent thoroiueh work i thia dirvetton, Asean be rullllllg Mder- Hd nutive uliand atid Megichng bive no Intereat in tho wintige work, Tho hindinne hke it i cupitul offense [or one of thotr number to alda prospector In the discovery ot w e while the native Moxionn could not be induved for uny 10 Joit o white man [ the work, 1L 18 Or 4y oho L0 aitempt the nrgument ! Toreitory 18 not rleh i preatous motal, We thid productive Aistricts In - Arizom Golo rindo, und Ot Mexteo, south, west, and north v, with geologienl Formntions hore identieally tho snihe, widnd the prospector s oume to stuy | with ua ho will mnko tho beat possibilo use of bis e, and develop the counts Neuithor hostilo Tudinng, nd gennts, nor wikl animats will n- tlinidnte the prospector or eapltallat froo tik- g tho gotd out of these mountains, comes the ern of proapecting, which 1s ol fitr selvinced; and noxt the ern of produttiu: whieh we Bave falely enteend upon, and to by developed for wl 1t {8 worth, Thou, ton, we bive conl i ubundance, bitumimons and wntitraeite, Next may be mendoned the articlo of gyps wihieh I8 &6 conma as to bo hardly o mor ble eomnodity. Inone part of “the ‘Tereltory thore fua continuous mura of gypsum some thirty wiles lung und alx whis, e —— “ GATILY who Is now in the South, thus writes of the Robel prison-pen ut Sulisbury (whiah was a8 Infamously and eruclly mannged ns Anderaonvilioy: The Ouited States Cw-moler‘i'.nnmm ng tho dumpug-gronml fur tho dend, I8 n sudded and terruced tetosure of sovernl neres, partly nn old srully - fn a ohee worn-out tield, now sightly cnougi,” A granit monument of consldoriblo slzo snumerites tho number of tho tead, bit tho numos b hone of thoim eab ba givon, With tho shiftless, slipshod way in which the business of Lhily Confederuey wins transnoted, the under- takeor of this ony kept no kitdiy record of nnmes or dute, Alarved tho prisancrs, gridged tho sur- viving thoir lives. und probably not o nan in Salisbury now fs Inlnuons gnough to suy n word of upology nbout thls prison-pai, All who spoke 1o e nbout ILaald 1t swas n horror und n ourso to thalr wholo 80, Tho Hug of the Unlon streamud from n tnll whity must In tho little green garden fields tho record Is with God: tho wicked who id it are dend or to die, and 1 felt, Inuking at tho plrce aod honving the story, o positivo convictiol of a nersoual Devil und “wn unexhausted Hell, Such grimes knock at tho door of murey, force buck the attornoy of the atonement, und exnct tho inved for cruelty, Even durlng e War Sultsbury wasa Uulon town: but tho grenter numbuor of 1ts malo In- habltants having been oxpelled, or having vol- antarily ‘loft for tho purposes of Juluing tho Union urmy, the place was selected as a site fur one of the prisou-pens, partly becsuscof itd sealusion, and partly for the purpose of vexing tho tamilies of the Unlon men. T London Spectator of March 15 speaks thus of the purtinily ratitiod trenty with Portu- sul which 18 s0 umyopulnr in that littlo na- ton 08 to have cuused riots In Lisbon and upsot tho Minlstry: ‘Tho Portuguese Govornment Liad slgned tho treuty ceding tho district of Lirenzo Murquos to Gront Deitaln, i eonslderation of cortain udvan- tuked to Goag and though the ratlilcation of tho Tortiguess Pariiament 18 oot compléte, the Lower House has uceepted tho tronty, Lorenzo Murques, which the Lnglish will probubly eall the Colung of Delugon, 18 1 provinee of ‘180w squure miles, ‘with w coast-tine of HO miles, stretehing from Zululand wl along tho vorthetn half of tho Trunsyiat, Itisto tho ‘Trausvual, tn foet, what Dalmnatin 13 to Dosnle, It cuntalns the mugniicent iurbor of Delugon Bay, nuil not ouly gives ua o separite entrance lnto the Tranavual, but rendors lusurrection In Zatu- land oxecedingly ditticalt, Any oie who ginnces at the mup will seo that with a short I'|Ill\Vl|‘ from tho bay to tho Transvual piat~au, Nortl Pransynnl and Delagon together would forn o eplendid sub-tropleat colony, with many elimantes and many ealtivatlond, Therearenoinbghitants in tho new provinee, sud it 18 ndserted that the tsotse-ly provents tho uke of borses, but tho Faots nbont that tly buve sthtl to bo nscertninod, Al uil ovents, it will not sting ruilway engines, und It 8 probable that Europenu voterinary uurgeons will yet duvise some protecdon aguinst 1ts ruvages. ——— Arr the signs poiut to the rapld tormation of 4 Liveral purty in Virgluly, to be composed of Mahone's anti-Bourbun followers and the Republicans. Tho fusiun, it 18 belleved, will «control tho State and routo tho mosstucke. The Htaunton Vadey Virgéntan, pérhaps tho most in- fluentlal Republican paper in tho Stato, has this to by in roguvd to Matwotio and his tuckera: Whlle wo nro oppused to tho nodern [ Justment, us it aifeots the publle debt of Vir- infu, which GGen, Mahone und hbis following mnlutnln, we veeognizo in bid votos and doclis wutlons n the United States Senato n broader and widply different readjustment to that which hins npplication to tho debt question, 1t (811 roe ulfsstinent of the lberal aud ohstruotivo leg- islition und purposes of the Deniocratle party upoirother and ove vitnl lssuos. It compro- hends the ldeas tmbodied (n the amendments to the Nutionul Constitution und the pulicles to give them practical foree and eifeet, and to res- ¢iio the Soutls from tho rulo of tho vonstiputed polidieluns who have clevated self and seltish purposts nbove the Interests una welfare of the peaple, und dwarted and obstructod wll tho agenclos by which atonn Southern prospority cnn bo worked oit, 1t 13 an nssunlt at the root af Bourbon despotigm, and n invocition to the people to wdare thuir fresdom uud nafutain thiolr righits against the deaploablo politieal tyr- nnny which has Ko lom preased tho in down, et — At n magsmeeting of the Columbus (0.) Trish Land-Loague o fow evenlngs ugo tho fuls lowhing wus unnnimously ndupted: Witk ikas, Tho peopte of Treland aro agltating In n peaeeful and legitimate munner for the nbros gutlon of the now ihnost obsvlete fendal yatem of land fenure, und for the scttiomoint of tho till- ers of tho soit perniauontly ou the lunds by the purehnse of the landlords’ cquity in the suie ut & price that «_ commiselon shall determine; and whorens, 10 deflance of an enlightened publio opinfon und the nltost ununlmots protest of U‘lrllluhduul. the Guvernmont of Urest ritaln hua disvegarded the petltions of the pueople lll;ulnml for u redress of thofr just grievaue thgrotore, Ttesnlved, That 1t 18 tho sonso of this mnss- moeting thut nsystons uf land luws which plices 1136 Wholo pupuintion of 0 countey ue the mer; Of 1t fow thunsand Individunis—the pressnt e dirion of tho lrish penplu—is antuguulistio to tho wpirit and valightonment of tho ugoe, and tho uverningnt which upholds such sn_ unjust and tyranntenl syston of land teunro deserves the condemnation ot the elvilized world, It i3 weil tho Columbus Luague mooting wis not nndor the control of ™ Qur Cartor,” for ho would buve *sut down™ on ull such attacks on the Dritish Queen and hee feudal nobility und lund tuwe, ——— T the Iitor of The Chicago Tribune, Cincaao, Mareh 25—~"The nomination of Judee Hobertson fur Colleetor af the ot uf Now York hua rafsed tho guestion amonygu nuw- ber of your readors us to tho emuluincits of that office. WL you pleaso stato 1n your next Isue whut thoy are per anuum, aod oblige mnny READRIS, "Tho sulary of the Collector of the Port ut Now York ts §12,000. Tho Consul-tnneral ut Youdon, . tu which post tho prosent Lolloctor, Gon, Mor- rltt, bus beon uppomited, recelvea §8,000 por un- nunl Tho Qhargd d'Afuires to Denwmurk, to whlch otlee Aduam Bduay, present Consul-Gone eral, hus been truusforeed, rocelvos 3,005 und the Churgd to Bwitzorlund reccives preclsoly the sunte snlury, It will ho seen that Mr, Oramer, Goa, Grant’s brother-fn-law, has not boen ** de- graded,” ud roported, und v, Adam Badeau 8 only deprived of $1,00 salary, which, consider- Ini tho very linlted chursutorof his public sorv- Jeos, und bls gonerous treatmont by throo suc. cossive Adminastrations,should not be conslitered u hurdship. S ‘e wmnnutneturers and dealers fu tine wuro In Plitsburg huve u buavy stock on hand, ns s shuwn by the fuct tbat the journvywuen thnners huve Yesolved to strikoon tho st of April, Whoover will seton fuot aninvestiga- ton which will result fn gettiur 4t tho true lo- wuniness of u greut muny strikes will bo a pub- lle bunofactor, Within ninuty daya tho stock on hund wiil bd'eloied out ut a hundsome ndvanes un the usuul rates, und thon the workwen, huv- fug uxhuusted thelr rusorves, will go to work at tho ol prices. N e ————— Tue Richmond Whig thus explaing Ma- hona's severauce from tho Pomucratio party: A wajority of the puuvl? of Virginia vellovo, witls Mabono, that ibey could not wuet tholr ot standing llabilities. Thoy tried to neet their obligutions, wasted un lwineots KmMouUut of e~ sets in the uffort, and fullod, A sot of brokors, assuming to aot tur 1ho Stuto oreditors, framed » contrudt 1 the stupu of & logislutive bill, wutoh wud lmpructicuble,, or deemivd su by tho puoply _reshded of Vitgila. Tho Leglalnturo passod tha il The pouple of Vieginia, vndor the lond of Ma- ang, resisteil tho )IH and condeinned it Tho Hdmocrdey of the Stite chiinploned tha bill: the Natinnal Duoinoocudy ‘xrnsmmmmmly 1ok prtt B tho Mtute guatrel, Duntocratiy Senntors and nfirbe Jotigress entou A8 sich it the Stato canvase Mahone und the lgadjustors trlumphod over tho Demoernoy, Tho State Ler- istuturo mot, the Domoctney’ nowinuated aml voted for a regular Demoeritlo candidate for the Bunatey nay, moros '“o-l Ly the Intensity of hate, thoy atiemptod that consummation of folly,—n union with tho lepublicans on Wil fnina'C, Wickham to detant Mabone, 'The gonll- tion fulled, wid the Donjbieracy voted for Withe ers. Mithono was vlented over” the Democratio organlzation b tho State, against tho wish of thy Nutlonal Hemocrioy outside of ity and inapite of tho mnat hkpring denuuolution of the Nas tional Demoetitlo vross. et~ Tity: ocean steatters ave making gond timo nt prisent, Yesterduy we recolved the Lunden dnlly pupers ot Murch 13, contulning olabos rate cummunfs vn the Czur's nsausination, —e—e—— PERSONALS, Beeretary Kirkwoad lived in Ohlo twenty yours, Othorswige his life hns hicen spotless, Joe Cook s leeturlng in Edinburg, but, furtunntely, the Scots wm a vory hnrdy people. Mr. Faxoti, the recently-appolnted DPoste master of Iurtford, Cunn, bus resigned. Mr. Faxon shoulil at onee bo given n botter oflico as a reward of merit, A Jorsey City man In thoact of ndminlster- 1ug n hearty kidk to his wife slipped and foll so heavlly s to Cracturo his leg In two phtees, This shoutd b n warnlug to wife-benters. Alwiys ace that your feet aro woll bruoed beforo beglin- niny work, ‘I'he Billy gont’s o vrotty bird And toves to dine on shirts: But for a mldday lunchoon, ho . Profera to ent hoop-skirta, f Ol oystur-cang und rubber shoes Anpenso his appotito, While hurvet-hoops ani corsct-stay,. Kl bim with groat delight, ~Joln Dryden, ‘I'ie Auburnian says vou can find out whethor your sirup (s nditlternted with glucoso iy thisway: * Poura litile on a pleceof white papery fold two edies of tho paper townris onch othor over the slrup. 17 there Is niy glucase fn 1t tho surfueo will wrinkles If thosirup Is pure the sut- face will remaln sinvoth,”” Our estetmed con- temporary forets to mention that after dolng nll this you hiro your wifo to clean tho slrup from your voats Lady Blanche Elizabeth Murphy, cldest diughier of the Earl of Galnsborough, died Tuesduy at Conway, N. I, In tho twenty-sove unth year of her ae. Lleven yems nwo this month, sho mnde, whilo yet o schuol-gicl, o ratber rumantlo elopeinent with Mr. Murphy, who wid the organlst of a Catholle churelat Oakhum fn Rutlandshire, Sinee then sho bas fn this country, and has beén wall known by her elever sketches and novelots wpublished 1o the Lest maguzlues of tho United Statos, A Cinelnnnt! paper remarks that * alveady tho urmy of a thousund men, who nro prepuring the roadbed for the bluuk horse, which sourng the heat of summor or tho urotlo bresth of winter,and bolda within Its bousom tho ombers proditced by the fucl of edarbon, havo passed over the summitof tho * Mothor Mountains of tho Pnettlo * un tholr trlumpha! march to the golden shures of Occllent. Tho steal bund which ro- colved lts Hrst spike ot tho Missourl Hiver has pussicd the *Brave River of the North,' and haa pencteated tho land of the Montezuma.” Tho man with the _club appoars 10 bo temporarily nbsont from Cinoinnntl. g A New York journallst, who has for many yearsbeen afilicted with dyspopsin, so that ho coild not ent tven the most delicate frulta, ro- cently visited Arlzona, und found that he ¢ould ot fried snlt pork threo times a duy.—New York Tribune, Thore I8 nothing strange about this, When areal Now York journalist with o cut- thront collnr, yollow uletor, and puckogo of CIRITOts gets out 1n Arizonn and §8 left to his own resuurees he has no trouble about oating salt pork. Yhe wmalndifioulty ia for blm to got Ity Tho lnst glenm of day was slivering the waters of tho Guadulquiver, nt the mouth of which ntunds tho nuclent City of Valoncln,' Above other bulidings rose tho towar of Migullot, with ita bolt rending lia xolemn tones far und noar, calling the fn- hubitants to pruyor. Far us tho vyo could ronch oxtondud tho fortile Vallsy Ifuortu Valonula, ntadied witii theiving viliagos, vinoyards, and cot- tagen, bound by tho sen (n tho distunco and sir- rounded (v tha lofty mountalns of Cataloni. T stars woro komming the flolds of nzury and the cry ont moon uscondii the vault of henvuns 1t was n- dued nnlght of benuty,—s scuno 1o uLtuno the mind to happinces und peuce. “Tho warvice hud consed, and tho congrogatlon was sluwly dopnrting from tie Cathadrnl of Bulnt Cocil- tus, Amomg the Inat of the worshlpors was s young fomale, clunuly alirainded it smantilia, yot of ao thin R toxture ws §L 1t lier fuco and hiuro wore aimont percuptible. 1n lior hand sho carried w fun of tho most exquisit workmanship, but seomingly moro for orna:nont Husn uso; bolind ber bubbled un old duons no, who with didicalty kopt paco with the tripplng fuot uf Dunina Iasbulla, for such was the namo of the wutdon. Cl0so by hor Kido walkud o Younk und nobla tuoking cuvatior, whoso doup dark oyo was riveted upon ior, whilo over und anon kiunces of roconltion woru oxchiungod butweon Wiuai, til at lonath the sus- ploluu of the oud Ludy wes sroused, who shoulderad anido the youth, und, suling thy arm of hor young churde, quitted hor not 1l thoy roachod a Boblo wan= slun in’ thia netghborhoud of the ever-vurdant Glorl- ot 10t the young eavallor wue not to bo thwartod in his dusign, whicll wis 0 convoy to his ludy fove a villes uuppolntinont, nor waa Donna teabelln dotl- clantof invoutlon in favormg the wishos of har lover, for, just us sho was on tha eve of uscending tho stufrs lowiling to hee wanalon, aho droppod hor fun, us i by uceklont. ‘Phe upporiunity wus b diatoly seland by tho youns eavallor, who, Hfutng 1ty unsoun to the duonnn slippud within ita folds s bll- lat, snd knoullng prosuntod 1t Lo the biusting isl. ¥ Yau re tou kind,” murmured the malden i ones ot silvery swooin % Don't menion it, Hollo,” was tho envallors reply, s ho gontly brushod awny with n siik hundkoretiof the duat thut fleeked his right boot, At this momont the dusntin bogan to act tmpatlont- Iy. *Leave me, Podro,” said tho young wirl luplor- aly. . You will not fal to moot mo, as the nota snys,” ho whispored besvochinily, * You undorstand 1 tumiblo,” was tho mald's roply, * That night, when the boll of Miguilot told tho mid- nlght bour, Iaboltn stoud in ber batcony, whioh ovors hunk tho gurden, A slight muysuunt was svon honed amang tho oraaa fallpgy, and a tall turo, shrouded 1n o Howing maitlo, sdvancd snd slood ponesth the buleony, “ Aro you ready?” asked the mask, %0 k1" gnsworad the muldon, 1ha breath scarce wugiblo from turror, . **Houure thon this 1addor Lo tho ratls and descond.” And throwing o luddur of silkon curds, 18 was cuught Ly Isubully, who, huving fastonod It us doslred, tho RnoXt momunt shb was i the urms of hur (ovor.® “Naw, thun for thu chavol uf Lo nonreat Justice of tho Peuca.- Kru tho sun-wiints fall upon the Albame urs saioon you wiil bo oy, “'Ihat MOENINg you must nover #00,” cried nman who wdvanced feom ath umbrigeotis shrubbury eloxe by, und struck Pedru a poworful blow boniny tho left oar, 1 amalugted!” oricd 1o unfurtunate man as ho sanksensoloss into the urmy of his assatlunt, who Duro i awitely away. ha nuxt morning the Donaa Lsaballs was Lurled in wriof und & purcaly wrappor. Corsetless, xnd with o 'hey " i orlud despalringly, * Who un the ton-spot or Jack,” respond- Nothilug luss thun that can take tho pudro,” In 0no cornor of (ho Valencla Coniatory may be souni & grave, kopt busutiful by lowors which loving bunds have sirown upon it It s the grevo of tho Donna lsabells. Hha dicd tho ayo of 74, huring rubbod a0van eulidren, ‘Il s not FoEIKTLD, but you ©un) LUt 00 148 buinit 8 Cuntra-siot on tho traki—~ 1y Dy Uowelis. e — e 'UBLIC OPINION. Buffalo Courter (Dem.); Daoes Mr. Voor- hoes now propose to continno the lilatle poliey which hus defeated our pijty nt the Bast os wull 3 at tho West, and enubled tho Republicun or- unfzatlon to roluin power forw full decade uftorit bnd been vmpbatically condemned by tho poople In 15T4P Buch o potley will b ve- Joored bé Now York aud_cvory debatublo State of tho ana it may he doubiod whuther it could shuw strength cnough to olect w Quvernor fnOnia, It 8 exwotly caloulated to unity tho Hupublican and spilt the Demooratio party. 1t wihil tull to gain the Republioan (rvenback voto, wihlol refused tu coieout for sueh caudiditos us wig and Landord. Bat we do not think it rmlmblo thut Mr. Voarhess' schomy 1o dinw tuo Duipverucy 1Mo A gonoral sssuult o the Nutlonal Bank syatem will recolve muoh codie tenuneo from the wiser luuders of the party in the United Stutes Souato, Senator Sajibury's funny speech wheo the Democrats cuptured the Bunate two years ago: Ishould bo very glud to see our brathron on the otherslde tuks thele present situation & litie more choerfully, 1 could congratutate thein, from the exporienco of u number of yoare {n tha miuority, oo tho fuat that it Is & wuch pledsant- or podidon thun L upprebiend ey touud us membiors of tho majority. They can alil In glve Ing. propor INEHEGUON AL ThO propor time aud in the proper wiy: buton this side ot the Hotse, hien we steike A 16 on oue bwn " hadon, It len ity to ourdnlves not to permit the othor side of tho Houte to shuglo ur cunrso of policy in referenco to uny varticular metaure, e hud botter bo understasd b onco tt tho Demo- ertle party 11 posoasion havo roaqonaniiltes fone ujont o, atud lito ]t pursie thele own Hna of potley wicontroliod and anlaflucaeed by Wwhit: may be o wistied of tha oiber shlo (n roferenes to rwmuom‘ q{alwumlly of u pulitieal charieter. 1hopo ot frionde an tho othar alda will reconoilo thaaselves to thelr brownt posi- tlon and. hke Cheistinn sutodmen, bear 1t nantully, {Laschtor] Plttsbure @uzette (IR3p): Mr. Georgo "TleRnor Curtls hianot helned b4 teputatiol a8 n writer by hla recont articlo .on the power of the Stute to regulato rallvay corporations. Ilis eonclualon Is that n Stnte I8 tegally powerless to modify tho télly of a rafltond which it hag chartods In other worde, that w Btato mity giso ngeant ton corporation nsn commen carrler whereby tho most oliteagenus extortions may Lo practiced wpon tuo people, and 13 powerless 1o protect the people from those itbudes, Mr, Curtls holds that the rlght to regulnte and control Ity own tolls 14 an fnviolible and jg. revovablo Hicht * vested fn n torporution, wid eannot bo Juterfered with by tho Stato without Impaieing ll.\nunthlon of {in vontraol ereatud by the charter. The logte of thia [s, that tho luvnplu, th kb thelr repteacnintly Leslnture, nuy 8ot i motion agencles which wiil militate diveetly aguinat tho public inters osts, R nre poweeless (o atop tiat whloh must cventually involye them L ruhi, Noew York Graphle: Mr. Iugh J, Jewelt Hna hot you ddeented the offer (o become Prest- dentof the projected Internationnl Bxposition Commnlission, aud 1t s to bo hoped that te will not tatniah bi4 well son repiitntion 18 « man of wis. dom in practieal aairs by consenting to bo fdentified with n project thnt might bave beea nad n gront suctoss, bue which Is now certatly tu provo nn lgnoninious fullure, Tho pinin fuets nro that valunble tinte by been frrepirne Dy wausteds that tho mun who sould bave mndo tho Fuir n snocess buve rofused to do anything with itt that tho thne romaining 18 too shors, even T overy. exortlon wers mude aud ampla fulits i Hatids it (o Twond 81to (4 ons. ful - of maluria, und 8o situated that n grent fair held thore wuiitd brewd n pestifcnees and that the goneral apithy of the peoply coneerning tha projeot Is stmply the rellex of tholr belief that the” undertuking khould be abeodoged, Mre. setrett will do well to refuse 1o have anything to do with tha mnttor, nnd_the suoner tho’ wholo business 1s doad und burled tho botter It wiil be, New York IHeruld: ‘There 18 moro than ordinary significance in tho ruport that Commos dore Bhufeldt i8 to reorganirve the Calueso navy, 1t Is not strange that China should desire officors frum Weatorn nitions to superintond her navy, for ail nntlons desiring to beeame maritime l'owers havoe found tho assistanco of forelgi oflicers neoussary, Herotofore, howover, Bne kland and Frauco bave almost aiways beon drivwn upon for oiticers to render such ‘sorvice, Hut Chinn, llke othor A\xlllllc{'“\vum. hnanbunds ant reson to be toubtful of tho {utentions of tho grent Buropean natlons, und 1t s quite mitaritl that she should be approhensive of Iuyull{ of her forclkn-bora oiligors phould troubfe veeur with the costatries from which sho outuing thoeu, Among alt i Pawers Amerls on I8 tho only one thit can never huve an ltelis Ing palm for Chineso territory, so the Celestinls sy feol perteorly ut ouse IF ‘thoir nuvy 18 under tho control of an Amorlean oftleer. ” Perhups, tou, the natute Chinamen mnr huve realized that the weakness of our navy, in thips wnd men, dovelops pecutlar abllity in ovur oflicers. So varled inve been the dutles of any Ameriosn muval oflicer wao has suon o quartecof i century of servive that he I8 famillir with even tho minutest detulls of a selenes that In other navies 18 a8 a rulo ouly partiilly comprobended b, ollicors of thio highest runlk, P > Cinelnat! Gazette: Thore I8 great signift- cnneo In tha President’s appoiatment of Wills fam It Robertson to tho oftiee of Collectar of Customs for tho Port of Now York, Also, thoré 13 significanco In Senntor Conkling's attack thoreon. My, Rubertson was one of tho lendlung mon In the Now York Republican Convontion who rofused to mnke tho delegntlon to Chicago nunlt for Gen, Grant, Prevident Uneficld menns, Dy this appolntment, that ho will not use the appointing power to ostracise Republicans in Nuw York beenuse they bavo dured to diffor from Mr. Conkling in a matter which s not ot Republican prineipto. No one ean suphose that thin act waus rn inudvertenco on tho part of the Prealdont, 114 meaning [8 too plam to bo mlss 1t means that the Prosident wilt t Senntor Conkling to ostruclsa good publicans in New York beenuso tho submit to hla dictation, but tint the Presidont ke Republicnus and: the will trent the Cu anti-Conkllng Hepublicans as haviog cqual rights i tho view of tho Adwminlatration, Ros publlcans would like to sco thia stand frly tuken with regard to ol tho Senator bLossed. Bonutor Conkling's nttuck on this numinas tion through his sutellites bas tho signitiounce of i demand that none bitt those who support his suprewncy shall bo ruc}x:n-mmu by tho Ad- ministration,” They who huve ohsorved Mr. Conklmg’s conrss of statosmanship wro nware thut upon no question of Htate cunhls wreut nund bo so profoundly stirred us upox” his ouns trol of the Government olliges to l!ny his sups porters and to exclude all Ropubiicans who do not bow to his ruly, aod that this demund moang the afternative of wur on tho Adoinistradon. Muy not the President gain moro by this not than ho can lose Ly Mr, Conkling's warfare? Will it nut bo regarded By tho. lopublicans of tha wholu country n proof that Proaldunt Gare fleld 18 not under bondake to uny Sunitor boss, wnd us proof of hin fndependence and dignity of chantoter? W1l it not bring him other sup= rorl which will more than bulnnos Mr, Conke Ing's warfure? On tho other hand, has not Mry Conkling firnlned bis fngolont personal autoorns oy Iuthe Stute of New York tosuch a degroo that it will brenk under him )t bo makes war on tho Adwtnlstratlon? Tho President who {8 guu. ulur with his purty, as_(en. Unretield 1y, oan beat any wurrlng Sonutor of bls prety 1f bo uses his power with even modorato courago aud abillty. And In this wirturo all would see hut the Presls dent'a position I8 right, and that It upholda his own@gnity nnd that of tho Hepublican party aud of the Govornment. FLOODED LANDS. Fenra that ¥'eoplo Have Boen Drowned by tho Rl ng Waters of the Loup and iatto Rivers—The Damago to Prope orty Very Groat—Tolegraphic Oom= munlcation Out O from the Ovors flowed Reglon, Bpectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribuns, OxaiA, Noby, Mareh 27, —Fears ure entortained here that tho tlomds of tho Loup and Platta Rivers have drownoed quite n number of porsond. The amount of damagoe to proporty and tho property destroyed wlll bo lmmeuso, As yot no roports lator than 100'clock Inst night have hoon rooelved, ng tho wires Kept golng down all along the Unlon Pacific from Coluinbus o Fremont. Telegraphic comiunicution wustward oxtends only to Frémont, forty-cight miles, and no ro- ports huve been recelved bere to-day oxcept thit the wator hae subsjded nt Fromont witnout domy much dimugo. The fatoof other townsin tho tlooded district i8 not known, Notrains wora dispatehed westward 1o-day ovoriue Durlington & Missourd Road, #s ano_bridio wi out of 1{ne. Fralns will be sout out aver tho Burllngton & Missouri to-maorrow. Tho Bustern Division of tha Union Pacitiv ia sorfously cr!p{:lml by wutg- outs und losaof bridges. o1 peoted, The Mlssouri Iiver oponed to-day ot ihis elty, and the water fell noout threo feok ops pusit here suou yites-ho lee-gorge broko. e e— AGRICULTURAL MATTERS, Bpectat Dlpateh to The Chicado Tridbuns, Twiairr, 1L, March 27.—Tho snow i3 golng off ~or, 1 ought to sy, going into—the ground, und our ruads aro Ly no means ns uddy as us Winter wheut bus had u very sovero time of it, and It 18 uo wonder that tho mnjority of my ros ports, with regard to 11 conditlon in Illlnols, roprosent it to bo mitch poorer than lnst aprine. Inchis portion of tho Btate wo commenced oue apring work on tho id dity of April, but we sball natilo it this senson. It lown .und Nobrusku, conslderablo waoat hid boon sown, but seedng n Minnusota b nat ennunonosd, and, with the nimenss smoint of snow that les tharo lo-dn(. it 18 very bard to tell whou Yurmoers will bo uble to go to'work, e —e. AN INJUNCTION PRAYED FOR. B7. Louis, o, Maroh 20.—~Tho tight between the factions In the Keokuk Northern Lins P'acket Company, whlch has buen golug on %0 long i tho Stato eourts, wua transforred to the Fedoral tribunal this afterioon by Abraham M Hutchinson und Jines I, Auderson, of Keokuky stockholdors in tho Compupyy, filing In the United Stutoa Cironit Court'n potjtion waklug fos an_(njunction to restrain Chirlvs Qroen, the Assiyrice, from intorferiug In nay woy with the property of the Cotnpany, Tho sult’ls brought 1 tho luterest of tho Davidipn party, —— : $3,500 DAMAGES, Bpectal Dispatch 1o The Chicugo Triduns GrAND 1tAVIDS, Mich, Murch £0.—Mrs. Rliza M: Young, of Towu, while visiting in Lowell Village, 1 this county, soino twa years ago, foll torough a dofectivo sidewslk and sustalued 6o+ rlous injurios, not tho greatest of which wos & broken leg. Bho bogan snit 1n the Unitod Brates Diatrict Court buro Lo rovaver dainagod from the nprlmmuon, aud this utternoon yut u verdict 107 T RESIGNATION OF A PASTOR, Braoiw, 1L, March 20.—The Rev. J. 8. Maons, B s et o Calts N n - ) chureh quurrels .u'm buck silury. L P