Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 30, 1881, Page 4

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THalsted stroot, near Madison, Waost Stia, entertuinment. Afternoon and v enlug. Varloty SOCIETY MEETINGS. TIESPEIIA LODGE, NO. 41l A, F, & A, M.—Mom- bers nrg horeby natiiled to sitona a Rekuine G f the 20 1o Lo held at the bl Hulstod-ntx, Wadllcnliny ovon- oelock, " VEItg brothren aro bu present. s AMES BMITIH, W. M. RENAN, !Aecm'x’nry. # muilention ner ui linn f, Mareh i), cordliliy tnvited ¢ cray, “ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1581, ‘I ordinance passed by the City Councll on Monday night, and which Mayor lnrri- son must approve or veto before to-morrow night, approprintes §5,172,05%:44, being the Inrgest npproprintion ever mndo even In the worst days of Colvinism and by the most corrupt nud dishonest Couneits ever in oftice. It surpasses the appropriations mnde by Colvin's bummer Couneil. It compares with othersnasfollows: The last Colvin Adwinlstra- tlon nppropriated 85,103,031, The Inst Heath Admlnistration avpropriated 83,774,883, This Inst appropriation by 1lars ' Admings- tratfon mmounts to 85,172,053, This is un nerease of 81,385,170 over Heath, and an In- crenso even over Colvin of $03,077, This In- crensoiu the clty's oxpenditures by a genornl Increase of salaries, Including the Mayor’s owi, Is porhaps evidence that the present Mnyor's Atinistration Is tho best tha city ever had! GEN. GrANT having resigned his position 08 Presldent of the proposed World's Fair Commission, and Mr, Jewett, ot the Erie TRoad, having declined'to sorve in hls place, the projectors have about declded to nbandon 1t altogether amd walt until 1822, which will bo the 400th unniversary of the discovery of Amecrlen by Colwmbus. This 13 nuch moro sensiblo than to attempt to hold It In 1883, whieh follows (oo closely upon tho heels of tho Centennial The world does not move sullicient- 1y I half n dozen years to mako any show in an exposition, and, besldes this, the assocla- tiong of tho 100th nnnlversary will give the Falr n strong impulso and arouse tho intores of the world In it. In unother respect it is plensaut to know that tho thing has been abandoned, ns 1t will stop the censcless and - senseless chiatter of the St. Louls papers, whileh within o day or two lave got it through thelr heads that soma one has been talking nbout a World's Fair, andnre cruzy to have it, nfter tho whole thing Is dend, Eighteen hundred and ninety-two will bo soon enough for the Falr, and Chicago will then be In readlness to nccommadato the world, A town that has not tho hotals to nccommodata the peaple of u small Illinols town oughtto have the grace not to publicly ndvertise Its Insignificance. — Miz, CONKLING, In the war he proposes ot make upon the Administration because Judge Ltubertson s been appoluted Collector of New York, lnbors under one dlsndvantage which even men of his own stripa will con- cede. The oflico of Coltector Is not now and hns not been for two or thres yeurs subjeet to Mr. Conlling’s dictution, Merritt, tho present Iucumbent, 1s not w henchman of Conkling. The *“Boss™ was not able to pre- vent the appolnyuent or confirmation of Mer- ritt, and Is now powerless to secure hig ro- moval. Conkling now suys that the Presl- dent must not displueo one antl-Conkling man to make room for auother anti-Conk!lne man, 1n other words, Conkling insists that any chango the Presldent may make In ofilees over which Conkling has no control, even by courtesy, muat e first submitted for Conk- ling’s approval. o Is not content with holding his own, but demsnds that the Presldent shall encroneh upon tho posses- slons of other factlons inorder to enlarge bis (Conkling’s) power and putrounge, Even politicians who sympathles with Conkling Wil recognize this demand as unreasonable, though they fall to understand why Conkling should not luterfere for personud aggrandlze- ment with appofntments which ntfect the in- terests ot the whole country, Creor u duo to those members of the City Counell who so strenously and nbiy, though Ineffeetually, defended the City ‘I'reasury on Monday night last from the comblned us- sault of the scalawags und plunderers, A cleur mnjority of the Copnell voted away othier people’s woney with the zeul of the demingog and ernven, On ona of the most scondulous of Cullertow’s propusitions the votu stood ns follows: Yeas—McAuley, Burke, Cullorton, Altpoter, Riordn, Hilrui, Lawice, AloRarnty; e der, Bvorett, Tuosipson, Btauber, Lorenz, Meyer Pifwenth), Youus, Moler (Sixtecuth), Suitof, ueeoit, Surphy—Ls Nuye—Wickershun, Dixon, Sanderd, Dallurd, Bhorey, Urmmm, - Walking Furcell, h, Pewvey, swits, Bond, Lrudy, MeCormick, wid Borley—10. ‘Luls vote varled lrmnenliy. e reekless ko, fopriators of olhux‘y‘pcuple‘a toney in- HE CHICAGO TRIBUN i\VEDNESDAY, MARCI1 30, 1881—TWELVE PAGES. crensing to 20 or 23, while the other vote fell off It desunir to 10, Some of theso wmen arg candidates for redloetion, and they ought to Lo defented, overy one of them, Argument, lnwy and reason were wasted upon tho mne Jority, They could not reslst the opvor- tunity of plundering the 'T'reasury, Ald. Dixon Inyain presented the factsand figures; ho might as well have addressed a mob. 1is strone aud Intelligent presentation of the Taw, and of the perils of engaging blindly tn the viuduct business, wero scouted and howled down .by the lobby, Is wns sup- ported by Al Wickersham, Durley, Shorey, Swift, Ballavd, amd others, but in vain. ‘Tho fact that thure was money in the Trensury which might be squandered was e resfstible, and tho mohey was voted, THE REPUBLICAN Ra'fll’mA'HDN MEEY- I The mceting at Farwell Han last night to ratlfy the nominations of the Republieau Clty Convention wns n gratifying suceess. The hatt was erowded to fts utmost enpaclty, the speechies were spirited, and the npplause was cordinl and appreclative, Mr. N. K, Fairbank was the first speaker, and ho eut out the work of tho meethig in a charncteristie and business-liize manner, e made two remarkablo statements ‘which: are well deserving the attontion of all citizens who tuke an interest in this campnign, The first was that the gunblery and “sporting men and wonien of this ity have raised a fund of $10,000 to Insure tho reilection of Mr. Harrison. The other was that n number of Ropublicans who have lnrge Interests In the packing-houses and rendoring establishments near the Stock- Yards are favoring Mr, Harrison, und con- tributhig to his support. The first statement 1s self-oxplanatory, and requives no eom- mentary. The second is understood to mean hat the manufacturers of Bridgeport-smells and stlnks ave arranging to distributo thelr siekening odors over the whole clty ns they used to do, instend of burning them up ns they are abliged to do at present. Dr. De Wolf, the best Iealth-Ofleer Chicago ever hal, who was left over by o Repubtican Ad- minlstration to make reputation for Mr. Hur- tison, Is sald to be about to resign. 1t 1s un- derstood that his suecessor will not pursua his policy with refereuce to the rendering cstablishments, Some pledge, express or implied, Is sald to hnve passed Letween the stinkmakers and Mr. Ilnrrison; and If tho Intter 1s redlected the city will be again ex- posed to tho nulsanco aud diseases of which the Bridgeport gentlemen are accomplished breeders, , . M. Clark, the candidate for Mayor, mado nshort speceh, nud produced un agreeable hupression by his modest and manly man- ner. While he declared that he had nude no pledges with reference to his poliey It clected, or the persons ho would appoint to oflice, ho sakd, In his capacity ns a citlzen (not ns o candidate for ofice), that he be- Teved it would be for the Interest of law- aviding liquor-denlers themselves, nnd they would agres to It, that tho dens of Infamy nud the mau-traps which fnfest the clty should be rooted out. Mr. Storrs made a felleltous speech nearly an hour lang, abounding in goud points. Mr, Cratty quoted from flarrison’s speceh avow- g knowledge of mud respousibility for fourteen publie gambllng-honses, td com- pared 1t with the penalties of tho State law for tho suppression of gambling, Justico Morrison made nn unusually strong speech, nsserting that blackmail was levied by ety ofiicials on houses of prostitution, and defying Mr. Harrison to demand the praofs, Mr, John Iiaber, eandhlate for City Treas- urer, and W. I\ Underwood, eandidato for Clty Attorney, spoke brieity. A local eampnign was seldom or never opened in n more encournging way, 'The size of the meeting as well ns the charncter of the attendance showed that tha pruple wore thoroughly aroused. WIth proper efforts between now and electlon-day, and a tolerably full vote, Republican success may bo regarded as asaured. LORD BEACONSFIELD, A cablo digpatch of last evening says that thera Is little hopo of Lord Beaconstield’s re- covery, and, although Iater dispatenes indi- eaty that there hay beon considerable im- provement In his condition, it Is_probable that Lofore many days England will be doprived by death of ono of Its most able and astute statesmen, the Tories of thoir ablest Ieader since the doath of Willlan Lltt, ond English foudallsm and the English monnrchy of tholr most successtul and eto- quent defondor, For close on half o con- tury Benjumin Disracll hns oceupled n position In Britth politles which no man of his parentage and anteces dents coutd hnve won but by talents and abllities of a very superlor order, ln- domitable energy, and a detormination to sueceed, Starting out In potitical life us u Rudleal, ho soon percelved that hls Intorests lay In the direction of allying himself with tho Torics, e probubly percelved Tiow few were the mon of real ubility In that party, composed as It Is of fat witted country Squires, leglslutors by he- redity, and plutocrats, whoss purses give them politieal standig. It Is not injustico to Benconsfiell to say that hls conversion from Radicalism to Torylsn was not made from motlves ns high and purens those which led Gladstone, nt one thne the *“rislg hope of tho stern and unbonding Torles,” stop by step to be the hiope of Eunglish Radlealisw, and the hated of his early politlenl friends. Stnco Beaconmtleld entored Lord Derby’s Cabinet In 1853 he las practi- colly been tho leader of his party, and all persons who have studled hls eareer sinee witl admit that he has led his purty with groat success, Rocognlzing the fact that concession hud to be made to tho advanced spiritof the age, e did not serupleto recommiend concesslons; he edueat- e his party to umke thens, aud thus pre- sonted his party on many ocensions to the wurld In tho light of a Tory purty more lib- cral than the Libernl, Thore was wisdow by his course, By mnking concosslons ut crit- fea) thues, ho avolded tho necessity of maklng greater ones on other ovceaslons. During his public Jife he showed himselt vather a skillful political tacticlan than u grent statesinan, and the maln purpose of his polltical courses seemed to be to “dish the Whigs,” and to make himselt the Idol of the Baglish voople, To uceomplish thess vbjects ho dil not hesitate to resort to queer and sometimes questionablo practices, to entertaln Orlental schomes of conguest nud to foster tho delusion among Engllsh Squlres and English Peers that England re- tning Its old prestige in European couns sels, Lo waintaln the favor of his sover- elgn, which ho dld with extraordinary suceess, he flattored her womnnly vaulty, cllmnxing hig course In this direction by cre- ating for her the absurd tltle of Ewm- press of lIudin, 1llo malutalued favor with tho landed wristooracy by stead- Ily resisting all efforts to deprive them of their feudal priviteges, and maintalned the fuvor of the churchinen by letting them soverely along and opposing all attempts to uterfere with ty Not ufittle of Wiy suceiss st bo attributed Lo nis very correet judgaaentof men, and to his surronnding himself with o nuberof clover adventiiers, ouly Hette aforlor to hilmselt, ‘Po the lust he led his party, ‘Chough in the Lords, hiedictated ks course in te Commons, If he dles, it i3 with bis harness on. 1lls wvarty will not soon find n man to take his pluce. $5,172,088 APPROFRIATED. ‘The Demucratie and Communist Connell on Monday night was guilty of a grosy sutrags upon the City Trensury, and upon the publie interests. It lald remorseless hands on the fund saved from former years, to which th elty owes Its deliverance from tho iflegal Tssuw of serip, and whieh alono ean protect thecity from o roturn to that costly, dis- graceful, and Wegal practiee. The City Council mnde an nggregate ap- propristion of 517,058, miul to cover this vast expendiure robbed the reserve fund in the City Treasury. T'ho rato of taxation allowed by lnw is 2 per cent on the aggregate valuation of taxa- Lle property fn tho clty. ‘This Hmit applies toexpenditires for ordinnry expenses. 1w addition the city s allowed to appropriate for sehools, for Interest on ity debt, and for the Publie Library, consuming 81,502,000, Outshde ot tho direct tax-levy, tho city re- celves nn fueone from leenses, cte. “The Controller Informed the Council that by strict cconowy and snvines the Treasury conld spare $350,000 from the reserve In the I'reas- ury, but to take that much would greatly em- barrass the city during tho present and ful- ure yenrs, "The Finnnee Comumittes there- upon made Its report of approprintions, lm- fting tha siuns to necessary subjects, mid tho whole within the nctual resources and in- come of tho city, These resources were as follows: TWO POr eent tX. ueseiriiriins TLioes & par cent for non-colleotion Net ravenno,.... Erom Heen: From savings in Trensury, From Genornl Fund..., Tatal possiilo revenuo,, What has the Council dons? 1t hasuppro- printed § tobe paid out of n possi- ble Incomie of 84,095,580, and Jins appropris nted from the reserve fund In the Treasury, held tuere to carry on tho City Government without the necessity of issulig Blegal serip, the swm neaded to supply this deficiency. Ithns taken for vinducts about o quarier of a miltlon, utterly regardiess of the Su- preme Conrt decisions in regard to construg tive damages to property ol cross-strects; for an Increase of salaries, §i0,000: for an addition of $87,000 to an approprintion of 5234,000 for sewers; and for varlous other speetal Jobs,—~making nn aggregate of nearly £400,00 ndded to the recommendntions of the Controlier and Flnancs Comuulttee. In order to wet money for ity salary, and vinduet, and other grabs, the Councll ¢ut down the approprintion for the pumplig- works at tho canal from $100,000 to 345,000, The Mayor guve s his excuse for not taking any steps durlug Inst year to provide pumps ot Bridgeport for cleanlyg the river, that, as hecould not do muything with less than $200,000, the S19,000 approprinted lnst yeay could not be used. The Couneil on Monday night refused to vote over 45,000, thereby probably defeating that grent sanitary work another year, and Justifying the Legislaturo In Interposing Its authority to practically shut off the river from the canal and stitly tho peopl of thls eity. ‘The ordinance ought to bavetoed, nat.only in parts, but as a whole. The Mayor should cull a meettng of the Councll to-night, and by vetomg the whole ordinanee eompel the City Council to strike out not only Its wild and extravagant apuropriations, but its wiele- sule robbery of tho elty’s reserve fund and Its demngogleal, wholesale Increase of sal- arles, nud also compel It to restore the appro- proprition for the pumping-works, The taw requires that the ordinanco shall be passed amt approved before midnlght of Marel ‘The Manyor has tine to reeall his Democratte Counell and mako them revise thelr worle, WIIL he do ft? It wilt bo too lnte nfter the election. What Is to bo dono must be done to-dny or ta-morrow. REPUDIATORS AND READJUSTERS, 1L was apparent from the frst that Senntor Muhone would be nblo to take enve of him- self aud tho Interests hu represents ngainst any asanults the Bourbon Demaernts might make uponr him. 1ils speoch In nnswer to the chargo thut he Is a “*repudiator” has contirmed this pssurunce, e suceceded by turning tho tables upon tho men whoare pursning him, It secing that the Funders of Virginla were the first repudintors, and be- gan by sealing off one-thivd of the debt. Acee cording to Mahone's stalement of the easo, the Rendjusters now cotitend that the State of West Virghuin shall pay one-thinl of the ante-War debt, which was contrncted while West Virginin wns stilla partof theold State, and Insist that the Interest on this debt shall be reduced to 3 per cent nstend of 4 ver eent, which the Funders profess thelr Ine tention to compel the State’s creditors to ne- cept, nnd withous making any provision for the pnyment of tho principal. The cluim that West Virginla shall pay its proper proportion of u debt contracted when thero was only one State, ot which it was a part, Ia apparently based upon guad grounds, What fs now known ns West Virginin en- Joyed bts share of the benetits which eame from the borrowed money, whatever thoy were, and It1s o unlversal practice In any division of territory, whether of nations, States, or countles, to pareel fairly any obll- gution which wus assumed for the common benefit, And so far ag the dlsputs between the Funders niad Readjusters of Virglnla goes to the rate of Interest, the position which the Rendjusters tuka to the effect thag the rate of Interest shall bo fixed at 3 por cent, aud that the State shall make nrrange- ments to pay that, scoms to Lo yulte ay honorgble ns the Funders® proposition that the Interest shall bu reduced to 4 per cent without any assurniico of puyment. A8 tho Funders, necordlng to Mnhone, begun by seallug off one-third of the debt, they are searcety In o posidon to enll Mahone and his followers * repuiliators” or to deal In any manner of epithots, In fact, Senator Mahione was nble to show that any srralgmuent of any class of repus dlutors coming from the Demoeratic slde Is made ridleulons by the record of that party, This 15 especlatly truu as relates to the Southern Bourbons. ‘Fho history of nearly every Southern State since the War shows eiforts, and gencrally successtul etforts, at repudiation, under the natmo of “seallng* or “randing” shico the Bonrbung have ro- #adned politieal control, 'The aggregate ro- sult 18 that Southorn State debts amounting to $23,000,000 hinve been redueed to §81,000,- 000 by varlous devices of repudiation, and withont payment, orgclin, Alubuta, South and Novth Cavolinu, Misslssippl, Arkunsas, Loutsinng, Tennessee, and Virginin haveal) resorted to repudintion I ove form or an-' other, Cities and towns in the South have followed the exmmples of thelr States lu this matter, The Southern Bourbons have only done what the Northern Copperhend Demo- crutd wouldl have done with the Natlonal debt had not the integrity of the Awerlean peopla revolted agalnst it The orlginal SOlo 1dea,” suggested by Pendivton and forming the busts of ons Nutlonal cam- palgn for the Democratio party, was slmply w schemo of repudintion, It was proposed to pay off Uoverument bouds with tlat notes,—to snbstitute nnon- Interest-bearing evidence of debt for an in- torest-bearing evidenco of debt, ‘The issue of n Government currency to the extent which would bavo been necessury to carry out this achemo woulil have reduced tho vilug of the Govornment notes to nll, and the result would have been not mevely to re- pudiate the Interest on the Natlonnl debf, a8 deliberately proposed by the Denocraty, but nlso the prinelpal, 1t is wmmralieled im- pertinenee for tho Demoerats, North or Bouth, under such cirenmstances, to elinrge repwdiation upon Mahone or anybody alse. The faeb Is, e Vieginda debt questlon at bottom euts no figuro whatever in the Sena- torial sttuation of which Senator Mahony has heeome the pivot. ‘This lssue was butn part of tho home strozrlo butween Mahono and ids opponents in Virginia, e made his fight nguinst the DBourhons as well ag the humbug Fumters, aml when he went Into tho United States Sen- ate it was s an Independent,—an anti- Bouthon,—and not as ¢ Readjuster, It was 1 the former attitude that he wus welcomed Ly the Republicans. 1t wns In order to bronden out his fight ngainst Dourbonlsm Into National proportiuns that he made com- mon cause with the Republieans, Ife did not expeet tho Republlenns of the North, tho East, and the West to take sldes with him 10 any loeal contest over tha status of the Virginlu debt, nor to diserininate be- tween shudes of repudintion, which Is hate- ful to the Republican party in nny form it may take, but he didexpect to find sympathy in his enrnest ad courngeons antagonlsm to Bourbon methods, and ho has not been dis- appointed, Gen, Mahone has not excited the wrath of the Bourbons because he ls o repu- dintor In any sense or In any degree. Had ho been more of a repudiator he wonll have beon dearer to the hearts of the men who would expungo overy evidenceo of debt grow- g out ot the War, whether State or Natlon- aly 1f they cottkt have thelr way, But he has dared to oppose these men in their oppo- sitlon to n free ballot and un houest count. 1o has fought thelr poll-taxes on colored men and tho odlous dlserbninations and disabiiittes which they huve Imposed on tha weaker race. 11¢ wiils no serfs, ho says, in Virginia. The party he heads, in hisown Inngunge, “had no feoling of hostility, no words of unkindness, for tho colored race. 1lo hnd faith, and it was his earnest hope, that the march of enlightened civilization and human progress would proceed until God’s great famlly should everywhero enjoy tho blessings of clvil, relizious, and political Hberty.” It is this condnct which has brought out the villtieation nnit threats of the Bourbons, BDut Senator Mahone *doesn’t seare.” 1o hins tho courage and the ability to maintain tho position he has taken; and, formidable as he s by himself, he will havo a following In Virginia and the South that will be still more formidable within the next two years. THE CONGRESBIONAL APPORTIONMENT. The apportionment of Illinols Into Con- | gresslonal distriets Is recelvinge the nttention of a good many politiclans, **statesmen,” and legisintors In Spangfeld; and 1t s now regarded a8 probable that the work will bo dono within o few weeks. Tug Triuse a short thne ngo presented a schemns sald to haveoriginated with Senator Pearson, which contempluted the division of the State Into nineteen distriets and the eleetlon of one Congressman by the State at large. This ap- portionment had many good polnts, It was fair, and masde all the districts nearly equal in population mud voting strength, More- over, it left but two distriets really close, and slight changes in these which we advised at the thno woukd remove that objectlon. The ndvantugd of having one Cougressman elected by the Stato at Iarge, It Congress shall provkle for twenty members, consists In the fact that it il not require the work to be done over agein i o less number shoukd be authorized by Congress. If but nineteen mombers should be required 1t would only be necessary to drop the one proposed to be chioson on u general ticket, aml the othor dis- triets might romain s thoy were. But i the State should be divided hnto twenty distriets, and Congress should eall for nineteen, the whaole apportionment would bo worthless, ‘There hag Intoly been doveloped at Spring- field another plan of apportionment which possesses nono of the merits that we have deserlbed, It divides the State Inte twenty distriets of Ivregular shape and unoven popu- Intion, and leaves threo or four of them so close wolitleally that it Is dificult to sny whether they would ba more often Republie- nnor Demoeratle. Ostensibly this twenty- district plan gives the Dumoerats six Con- gressmen and tho Republicans fourteon, but throo thmes out of five It would give tha Re- publicans only cleven and the Damocrats ning, and i cnso of nceldents in the North Chicago district tho lemocrats would hava ten wnl the Republicans ten membury, so that the delegation might be evenly divided when the Jtepubliean pluvality in the State nt large was 29,000 or 80,000, 1T tils wenle s2heme of apportionnient was drawn up by o Democrat, ns wo aro incllned to think it mny havoe been, It could not kave been more cun- ningly devised to help the intevests of that party, Some of tho duetalls of thetwonty-district plan, as stated in Tus TRIBUNE'S Sprinctield dispateh yesterday, are extromuly objoctlons uble. ‘The proposed Toenth District, for In- Atance, I3 the present Ninth, eomprising tho Countles of Stark, Kuox, Peorta, und Fulton, ‘This I3 one of the elosust, mud by all oddds the lenst hanmonions, Rtepublican districts In the State, It Is wolkhod down by the two Demo- eratic counties of Peorfn and Fulton, and hns klven the following small plnralities for the Republiean candldate at the Inst four clec- tlons, the vote for 1874 nlone belng amnjority over all: 23011838, . BAT] 1850 Avoruge,. aseen . I'ng Greenback candlitate for Congress In this district hud 078 votes in 1876; 3,740 In 1873 und 2,548 [n 1850, tho average belng six tinies the Repuollean plurality, Yet It s proposed to leave thls district, which nhnd when ereated o clear Ropubliean majority of 1,000, untouched; and In all probability to hand it over to tho Democrasy through local dissenstons In all the “of-year” clectlons hereafter. ‘Ihe MeLean County distrlct n the twenty-tistrict plan 13 squatly objoctlonuble. It contalns two strong Domoeratle countlos wud two closo countles, mud throws tho re- sponsibility for the' whole district on Me- Loan, whleh would find it a heavy lond to carry ugainst n Demo-Greenback comblina- tiondong boeforo the deeado was out.. ‘Tho roliable Republican wmajorlty Is not as large by 1,000 ns I the district proposed by the other plan, Wo du not attach any lmportance to the putting of Sangumon County m n Repub: Nean distriet. Any othor distribution ot the votus In that part of the State which shall preserve the butunce of population would do aswell, 1t would be bhotter ‘to have Bl Spriuger go back to Congress than to have n worse Democrat chosen from the country, But it wonld by in all respects wiser to make the Fourteenth or Vermilion District sure by cutting Moultrle from it thap to risk the loss of the distrlet, Both' schemes err In adding Monrog to Capt. Thomas’ Cairo district, which is now Ropublican, and has been made so by the hardest kind of fighting. 1t would be s puor return for the services of the Repub- licans in that distriot to load them duwn with Bill Morrison and his Bourbon stronu- hold. As arule, itls better to wake a Ke- publican district sceura than to riak it by grasping at more outside, The twenty-istrict plan in offct throws away the Poorin amd Bloomington districts on the otf-yoars and makes the Calro distriet doubtful. 1t leaves the North Chicago dis- trlet on off-yoars hart fighting gronmd, amld woull most Nkely hand over the extrn, or twentieth, Congressman to tho Domoerats, Atthosama tine the apportiotment 13°less fair than tho other. ‘Theconntles are picked out In the most extraordinary way, the pro- posed ‘Thirteenth Distriet, for instanee, run- ning nlong the eastern State e from Knn- kakes to Bdgar, Inclusive, amd taking In Douglas nt w right anglo. Members of the Legistature should refiect that the vote of last fall cannol bo dopended on in ull-years, [t will bo nocessary to have a wide margln to Insure ngalnst npathy, ac- chdents, and combinations. We belleve the apportlonment deserlbed In Tug TRIBUNE Inst week, aud approved by mnny of the best Judges In the State, ean hardly be {mproved upon, excent by xemoving Mouitrle from the Vernlilon to the Shelby district, and restor- Ingz Monroe to the St. Clalr dlistrlet, where it belongs, A MAN OF MANY RELIGIONS. If any man s to bo pitled 1t 1s pour King Mtesn, une of the Afriean dignitaries, who has become quite fatmous for the cheerful nud even witling manner in which evory now and then, especlnlly on festival aceaslons, he talkes off the hends of » few score of his wives and other relatives. 1o Is literally blown about by every wind of doctrine through his aptitude for converston. ¥e seews to tako religlon, us quickly as n child takes tho mensles, and gets over it with equal ease. Originally, of course, he was n heathen, and o very gond oita too, minus his proelivity for dispatehing ks wives and mothers-in-law whenever he fult in a sportive mood, Some Mohammedans who visited his country con- verted b to Istam, and stralghtway he be- enmnen devout followerof the Prophet. Then Stanloy found him fn his travels, and mado a good 1'rotestant Christian out of him, and clothed him In the gnrmonts of regeneration and ebtalned his sanction to tho articles of falth, though whether he was IHigh or Low Chureh we cannot afilrm. Like all now converts, ho was & zenlous amd enthusinstic one. e was nnx- Tous to show his Christianity In some out~ ward form, It was not allowable for hilm to amputate his mothers-In-law or shoot off In- stathuents of his wives, ‘The best that ho could do was to manifest his joy by copious libntions, go upon devout sprees, holst his flog, and five ot guns In honor of Sundny. This might be considered erratic in & Clirls- tian community, but in Mtesa’s dominlons it Inspired wueh reveronco for the Christian fulth, especlntly in the matter of Nbations. Ilo had hardly gathered up his garments, however, and prepared to run the Christian course when the Jesuits got hold of him, and he beesne n radieal Catholle, and as fa- natieal a proselyte ns even Loyola himself could have wisied, Amd this all tho more easy besanse ho was still altowed to holst his flag and five off his dilapidated old can- non when Sunday came. The wives and mothers-in-low had o good rest, and be- cams s devout Christinns as himself, established sewling soclotles, maternal meot- 1ags, strawberry festivals, and other material alds to church solvency, and rested securely In tho lllusion that they wetroe in no danger of boehne sent to meet thelr predecessors of happy menwory. “1t was only n dream.” The heathon won him back to thelr rites again, Tho flag was no longor holsted when Sunilay came. ‘The cannon was silent. The children, hundreds in number, of good King Mtesa were tnken out of Sunday-school. The choir was discharged, nud the good Jesuit Futher was ordered to go. Mtesn mado up for lost tine when he became onco more & jolly heathen, and straightway ap- polnted agrand festival duy, or sort of Mardl Grug, which he abserved by slaughtering oft all his wives and mothors-in-law, and even made sad inronds atong Wis “slstors, hils couslus, and hls annts.” With an eye to future comfort, however, he supplied thelr plices with fresh fevies from tho surround- ing country of chavming bronzed beauties, who wero ordered to bring thoirmothors with them, ns thoy might bo useful on the oo caslon of future festivals. At Intest advicos he had become n Mohammodan agaln, A letter from Ilubaga says: Yesterdny Mtesa ealled all his Chlefs and re- counted a dreum that he bud had, He saw tho moon surrosnded by ten other moohs. ‘This contrul moon wixud bligor, and the othars nnde wbulsunico to it Then nppoured two angols who aikeed bl why ho bnd “glven up saying Allih kbar, aud ordered hhin to do so. * Thon he awoke, und bebold 1t was o droan, I8 wives told b thnt e wus tho maon, and thut ton Jingdoms wors nbout to roquest bl to receiva thot under his gentie Awny, Wnercupon Mtosa ondored pll at court to say Allah Akvar, and to proclatm him o Sussulman, Slnco the great and good Mtesn has be- como nmoon, it 18 to be presumed that hoe will ehangue uvery quartor, and that we shall soon hear of his shifting to some other doe- trine. As Buddhism, Judaisio, Mormontsm, and Splritunlism have not yot been repro- sented in his spiritunl progross, theao socts ought to bo alluwed to have a shy at him, It Is possiblo some one of the four might hold him tight, Lf not, there Issthl nchance for DBrother Moody, Once he gets a sinner In his griv fio never lets go. As between Moody and Mtesn, thoro can be Httlo doubt of the re- sult, Thy odds aro s hundred to one that be- foro Moody and Snukey have been in his dominlons s week they will foteh i to his knees, nnd have the flag holated, and the can- nou belehing, and tho wives and mothers-in- Inw will start o congrogutlon freo of debt, and uecomplish o vast deal of good where Afric’'s sunny fountaing roll down thelr golden sunds, and Mtesn will at Inst bo well grounded In doctrine and depnrt to his futhers in the odor of sanetity. ‘Wurtemberg and Brazil. ‘While the Russlan Nihlllsts are apparently opposod tooll thronod und successors thoreto, thera aro 1wu peopled on eartl who seomat presont to be very much worried ovor the ques- tion us to who will rule them after thelr present sovervigns shall have bLeon guthored totholr futhors, Tho #Hrst nre tho good people of the Intle Ringdon of Wilrtemberg, better Xnown 48 tho Bwablans, Tholr hing, Chartes, 88 yoars of sge, and his Queen, Olgn, Urand Duchess of Rusaln, LY yeurs old, buve no chilaron, The Buccostor to the thronols Prince Witlium, cousin und nephow 1o the living King. Witllam 18 married to tho Princess Marle, of Waldeok. Tholr only sou dled recontly, and uow tho Bwabluus ure in u torrible stow lest the Royal Mt should wot furnish thum with snothier belee appurent to the throne of Wirtemberg, be- cnuso Wiliinim is the last maly represontativo of tho waln lino Wilrtcinborg or Beutolsbach, As ferenled eannot ascond the Witrtomberg throue, und in cuso Willlam should div before surprising his Bwublang with avothor Crown Prince, tho younger lino of the bouse of Witrtembory would b entitled to successlon, and that line bulongs tothe Cathotie Church, while the presont relgnluyg llue I8 Peatestant. All sorts of aightmaica aro Indulged in by the people of Wilrtembery, ‘The grent wajority of them ave membors of tho Protestunt Cburch, and thoy fear very much that i€ Wiillsm and Marle should not bo blessed with unothor boy Luby Popery will take thom body and soul ugain, a8 it did duriog the rolgn of the Cutholle Carl Alexander, from 1TX-87, Outy as fur back us 1863 the Protestant Swablang wok (t inte thelr huads thug thetr old, hoary- hended King Williain had a votion of Joining tho Catholio Church, und they woulil not bo pacified until the old wonarch cauved a lotter to bo read frotw every pulpit in the Stato deoying with disgust tbo ruwmor; then tho SBwabluns wore contont nuuin. Aud go they should bo cuntent to-duy, beenutso the Crown Princely puir—~Wills Law uod Murie—are buth youug and healtby peo- plo, who aro usdoubtudly aware of the grave responaibility resting upon themn and tholr duty toward tho loyal Protestant Bwnblans., ‘The second people who Reem to bo worrled nbout thoir futura soverelih are tho subjeots of tho so-called * Lonst Amorican Ewnpire' by which sognonion tho Empire of Drezll b4 goner- nlly doslgnatesd boyond 1ta bordars, Tho fall of Brazll 1 case of tho death of Dom Pedro fins heen of Inte tho mubject of sorlous discussion by the press of that Bmplre. Tho * good” Dom Pwdro has no sons, but twoe daugh- ters. Tho cldest {4 morried to nn Orlvans Prince and the recond to Prince Louls Awnguato of daxe-Coburg-Uothin, Tho oldest sun o tho former 18 only 0 yeard of ngo, and tho oldest son of tho Intter 12, Bhould Dom Pedro dlo beforo clthor one of theso grandsons is of ago regency of the oldust daughter would bo the consequenco, But it 14 very problemats fonl whothor or ot she wonld be able to gulls tho Brnzillan ship of stato with a stondy hand; to weather all the storma through which it had to pnsy, and safoly lund her boy ou tho throno of Birnzil, The vory afr on tho Awerlonn continent I8 not kindly disposed towards n mounrchienl form of government. "Ihis would become aps parent lu enso of tho denth of Dom Pedro, wha to-diy malntains htmsclf chielly by his great popularity among some clnsses of tho natives. Amouy tho Germnus of tho Empliro bo 13 cortalnly uot very popular. They doubt his slucerity, beonuse hls Government fins on muny wocusluns ocoupied an oquivoent vnsltion towards the Gennan elentont of the Empire, and domon- stratod by It conduct that Lohind glittoring phrases and political prowmises very tittlo solld truth Is gonerally to be found. 1¢ Dom Pedro shoulil lenve o son of his own na helr to hls throne thore might be less ditticulty, but as it 1, after bis death ropubliean kleas may gain the upper hand, On thig subject the Montovideo Deutache Zettuny suys: As fiur 0 we know, Dom Padro onjoys oxeol. luht heitlth 8o far. o wish from tho bottoin of our hoartd that be may retaln it fut thot atl surta of ddnzer nwalt, tha thione of the Braziljan Lmnpiro after hig demise, not ulono Q0 wo be- Heve, but it ia weltten among the stars, ‘Thon, It Mr. Binino wns in ullice, ho would pro- clulm tho Mburoo doctrine for the wholo Amer- lenn Continent. ————— War in Kurope. Tho Marauis do Custine wrote forty years ago: **Russin's form of government I8 dospots Ism moderated by ossasluntion,” 1f-he had added thut the sucuession to tho Russiun throny is yenerally “corrected," or nt lenst bastoned, in the Intoreat of cortaln purtles, he woutd have told tho whole story, Whother or not tho suwe- cossion to the ltusslan throno bas beun very much “corrected * In the Interost of European ponce Is very much 10 bo doubted, This much {s certain: that Gormnny has Jost her truest and best friend in Alexander 1. Ho wos Intensely tinted by the old Russian party, and, ulthough that party hnd succceded In securlug the Princese of Dolgoroukl to akd tholr plang, even thut potont Inllnenge upon the formor Czur was nat sufliciout to shake for amoment tho position he ocouplod towunls Gormany and its Emporor. Whether or not & generul Europesn war will follow this nsensinetion In tho hume- dintg future, I3 problowmaticnl. But 8o much 18 certnin: thut tho probability of such t war rests ke o loaden wolght upon Rurope, nid its intiu- cneo und effest upon suclal, moral, and politient 1ife upon that continunt, partic uluely Germany, will be sevorely felt, Although the now Czar ln his pronunclunento, fssued a fow duys ngo, an- nouneed thut ho did not entertain any jeslousy or ill-feoling towards uny of the Powers of Eu- rope, and that his relgn meant peace, ho qualt- fles thoso nssurunces by adding that *“only tho duty of protecting her bonur und sccurity can divert Russin from tho worck of mmternal do- velopment, The Ewmperor will ondoavor to strongthen Russin’s powor, Lo proinote her wol- fare, aud to secure hor prosperity without uny dutr(ment to othars.” The worldknows how to valug Hussian and French diplomatic phrascolowey. It need only to think ot the bullutins of tho First Napolcon, and when the third Corsienn contemplated o change of tho map of Burope ho sald: “1' Eme pire, ¢ 2t I pair” (Tho Empire I8 poaco.) When, In 189, Alexander B, declured swar ngninst Turkey, because tho Sultan would not accodo W' tho dumnnds of the Bulgurinns, be safd: * llussia will suo to i that ber bonor and the peaco of Burope 18 protected and secured.” And when Alexander [ nsconds the Russtan throne he proclalms “that only n duty to pro- teat honor and seedrity can divert Russin from 1t work of {ntornnl dovelopment.* Tho averslon of the present Czur for the Ger- man Empire has hecomo proverbinl, Although Germany (Prugsla) bas not been an active ity of Russin sinee the waraof the First Nupolcon, Ttussln hus always bad the moral support of the bouse of Hobeuzollorn, cspecinlly durhyr the Crimean war and tho late Turkish war. Alox- audor IIL i3 un enthusiastio ndinirer of tho Fronch people, aud he lates the Gormaons. Hussla jaust havo ullles; Germany (s out of tho quostion; Russiw'd polley fn tho Oriont provents intimate politicul rolations with England; an alllanes with Austrin §s not to be thought of, beeause of Austeln's Southorn poliey and desive for the ucquisition of new torritory in that dircotion. Whove, thon, will Russin find Ler nllles? May wot tho prosent Canr taka up agnin the kien of the First Nupoleon, with which ho attompted to eapture Alexander L—via: “Russlu in tho Engt and France in tho West can conquer the world!” Did not Napo- leon I11. follow In tho foutstops of his uncle, and afige tho Crlmean war attempt to desert hly ully, Bngland, and to secure ain allianee with Itussly, s0 that tho Inttor wight undisturbedly dovetop hier aggressive policy in the Orlent aud ho his Intontions towards tho Ithino? Does not Gambotin—do not the Fronch people—cuter- tafn this snme Napoleonle iden to-day, and sro not ult of thom onty too anxlous for wn offensive oand dofonslve alllance with Russlay to gentify tholr rovengo for Scdanand to reguln Alsuco und Lorraine? 1t would certainly not bo ustontshing if under | 8uch circumstancos the Russinne and tho Frenoh folned honds. Tho news sout by eublo that cithor Princa Nlcold! Urlotf or Count Izna- tlolt will probubly step Juto Gortschulkoll's shoos scems to foroshudow such o polley for tho future. Orloff was appotuted Rusginn Ambuds sador to Franco shortly bufore tho outbronk af tho war betwoeen Germany and Franco. Ho Is an cnthusfustio udmirer of il that fs French. Nu- poleon IIL recelved from him promiscs of Rus- slan support In caée of nn emorgoncy, und ho also Inducod Thierd to go to Bt T'otorsbury, as- suring him thut ho would find enough lu- flucuce tu sceure the, intervention of tho Czar favor of Frauce, Tho opposition ou tho part of Orlolt towneds Gormany s Rusalan Ambassudor durhyg that war wis so bltter that Dismarck was compeliod, on seversl wecasiond, to onter his protests with Uortschu- koff, Ignutlolr ia the sworn enomy of Austriy and Turkey., His motto ta; ** Tho roud towurds Constantiuople leads vin Vienna.'' Jlis dislika of Germuny 18 hardly excoedd by that of Urloff. Both belony 1o tho Rusalun war party, Whatoverthio noas futuro mity bring forth, so much is ocrtuin: that tho eltuation us It i3 at presont capsot waintuin tself much longer. Frauco und Russin ure constantly sticring tho tired in Groave, and tho Ortental question hardly ndnits of n bloodless solution, And {f tho dogy of war aro onco Jot lovss aguin Franco will take good oare that Gore muny 18 drawn fulo tho vortox, and Uermany will draw Austrinafter her, What utremendous contlict o European war would be may bo judged from tho fact that Fruuco can lmwmediatoly pluce {u the tlold 1,617,150 troops (Infantry, cuv= alry, and urtlllory),with 4,802 guns, holding 2,180,~ O troops In resorve. Gerinsny can blaco in fmmediato nction 1,392,011 men, with 2,610 guns, lenving a resurvo of 1,807,600 men, Austrln enn Plage In the fleld on short notico 1,0K4,025 men, with 1,521 guns, retelning a reserve of 1,000,000; and ftussts can send to battle 1391,60 men, with 9,58 gung, holdding fn reserve 120,612, Thls isn grand total of over vloven milllon saldiers for these four Powers, of whom over vue-thind stand in line Quring tines of pence. e — A upcuanic of Itachester, N, Y., has, ac- cording to hls own statumonts, just compluted s duplicato of tho colebrated astronomicul eloek of Btrusburg, in which city ho was born and lived for many yenrs, Tho ouly difforouce be- tvoun tho workings of the two clocky 13 {n tholr slzqund in the form of thoastronomical pore tions, Tho case for tho maln part of tho Roches- tor clock 14 ton and onv-half foot high, while it 18 all purticulurs exactly proportionatu 1o tho clock soventy-tive feot bich whick it Smbtutes, e e Tug clulm for damages for lost profits on a contract which Richard Bhinnick, Bouthora Insano Asylum contractor, fs demanding from tho Btuty, was orroncously transmitted by tho wicgruph a8 smountlug to $35,763, when the actual claim for lovt profits (s $5,765. Tho bili 1g juado up of o nuwber of tishy-louking ftome, sowo of which uru ug follows: Extra cost of hauling stone, $2,700 (quantity of stono huuled ot stated In bill). Additionat cost of procuring stono, $1,000 (why the State should be nsked to poy this 18 not stated). Moving derricks, $75 (why should tho State pay for that?), Paying for usa of quirries, £530 (why should the Stato te mnde ta puy for that?y), Othar items look equally suspietous.: Tho blll on its face hins tho appearance of a grub, and thero s posaibly u divide behind it e — , Somg fortnight or more ago the Mayor's sprelnl organ made this- nnnouncoment cone #plenously in its editorial columns: . 10 0 ropresentative of tho Tlues, yeateriny, Masor Hurrison comtunieated s frrevocanls dlee tot ta Beek or aeeopt u robomination, In It must bo ndmitted, ho exhibits shrowds tiess und sound eense. . ., Mz larrison iy Wwiko In rotising from tho Neld, Nothiug short of i miracle could rebleet bim, 1€ ha rematued o, candidate, Which 18 unquestionably true, and If it had notbeen for tho persunsion of the blrckleys, pimpy, and thileves' dens, who all demand Jm- tunity and polico protection for two years moro, Harrison would havo soted on Btorey's m;xn advice and stuck to his * Irrevoeablo roe solve, —————— “WineN do you, Mr. TRIBUNE, supposoe our Leglsiature will adjoten?” nsks n corros spondent In Aurora, * Tho Leglslatures of alt tho othor Weatern States are winding up thote bushiess und golug home. When will ours do lkowlse?” Notuntit Do robin am chirpin’, Do bluebird am slugin', Davalee of tha bluciuy am heard In do tand; Do wild ducka airo {lyin’y Do gandors nu umhfn'. An' do big binka mun ho wm slioln® bis band. Illinols Honorubles who denw 85 por diom for 8oven days, and spend three per weul In loglaln- tlon, have tou suft n thing of It to think of bo Ing. Inu hurry to dispurso aine die, —— AN enterprising Bertin hatter hos discov- ered an excellent plan to recommend his new: style hntls to thoso vislting tho Capltal of the German Emplro, Ho prints on tho white silk lining o well exeeuted map or planof tho City of Berlin. Thoso parta of tho clty which are tho most frequented, such ns tho Friedrichs, or Dorotheen, or Konigstadt, aro glven In the inutest detalls, Should the possessor of such 4 hat get confused, or tn cuse he wints to find tho shorteat routo to any place he desires to visit, ho need only lift his stoveplpe, look inslde, and steer abond ngaln, 1t 19 not a bad idew, which desorves to be imitated by our enterprige ing Chleago battors, ————D—— 1LAnnrsoN has boon traveling on his rec~ ord for ceonniny, Tho appropriations just passed by his Democratio Council nre u singulur comient on this protonso of cconomy. Tho footings nmuunt to tha hugo totn), oxcceding fivo inlihons of dollnrs (36,172033). As passed, It Ia tho lurgest budiot tha taxpayers have ever been catied upon to fuce, not excepting when Colvin wns Mayor. The lnst Colvin LIl called for $5,108,031; tho last Heath bill, &1578,858, and now comes tho st Harrlson bill of 85,172,008, And In tho face of this vust bill tho * host Slayor ' has tho chicek to ask peoplo to rotlect him on tho score of his rocord for ceonomy § ————— PresmeNt GARFIELD'S two eldest Rons, Hurry and James, are stalwart youny Western, fellows, and excecdingly Intelligont. Thoy nro studying energetlenlly with n tutor In uquict room of the White House, and are to enter Willinms Collewo next Septombicr. ‘Tholr stater Molly Is n clever youny [nay of 1, bright, yot n Hittlo shy, nnd the posscssor of w remarkebly hundsomo palr of ltrge, oxpressivo eyes. Sho i3 foud of musle, and the sound of her plano some~ - thues ponctrates plossantly into the room hannted by the dismal and anxious ollicescelks ors. ——— ‘Ture: Nord Deutsche A egencine Zeltung, Princo Blsmarck's ofticlal ovnun, suye: Tho huo and cry of * Awuy with Rlsmarck ' Will only ba of condequence when the Emperor Indursed It There wis o tmo when Dismarck had strong fuellintions to retlve Crom his prese ent position, but lifs ‘]mrflmlnl attachmont for tho Fnperor prevented him trom doing so. This inclhmtion socing 1o have ultorly disappenred, and the nrtneks upon bis person and punuy, [T tho tnerensiag minbor o Iits encmlos, seem to huvo un Invigorting cn'cctulmu thu Clinneellor, nod we are formnd that ho (s dutermined to rotlre from his office only In enso tho Ewperor shull domnnd his resignation, ———r— ‘T'ne Peorin Transeript lenrns through the Hon, Martin Kingmun, of tho State Canal Board, that tho General Governwent, continuing tho work of limproving the navigntion of tho Iflinots River, whll unidertake tho construction, during tho prosunt yoar, of o tock ond i Just below Hourdstown, costing about 350,000,~belng tho third on tho river,—thogo at Henry nad Copperaa Creck huving boen covstriteted by the State, The approprintion made by the st Congress for work on the [linofs River was £250,000, while §125,000 rumalns over from other approprine tlons. ——— CRowELL, o county ofielal at Baxter Springa, Kus,, hus mude n statement thnt tho terribie storles Ellzn Comstock hn been telling in tho Eust nbout the destitution und misery of the * poor bluck men* in bis county nre without auy foundation whatever. Instend of 1,600 sut- foring nogroes l the viclnity of Baxter Springs thero aro nbout 060, und thero Aro not twonty- five unemployed mon fn thut vielnity, Bliza's atatoments shoukl ho received with cautfon, ovon It she fa a * rolugeo " misslonury, ——eti— e Tur: duty of a Mavor 13 to enforco the ordipanees of tho munlotpality falely and hone estly, and to knep tho City Government on tho skdo of public morality aud counnon decency, and 1€ evilund degeading pructices cannot b wholly reprosed thuy should at least not bo countenunesd or protected by the publlo aue thoritics. Vice will breod vico fust cnough in a grout city without ofticlal coditing ar oncours uagoment such us Harrison.bos boen glving it, § —— SatAvt-rox s cured by Mexlean doctors in throe daye, and no warks loft, by treatiug tho patient to vold drinks of erenwm-tartar aud water. Tho cream-tartar 3 first dlssolved fn bolllng water. The Mexlean mothod is worth looking into, e Aroxa Sulilvan River, Maine, they ara taking out sliver in Jurgo quantitics, aud they #eom to valuo tho metnl vory highly, notwithe standiug tho Noston goldbuyrs havodeclared it to Le u buso deluglon and anyre, PERSONALS, Ben I 18 known In Ponen eirclosas Olds dun < Who « Put « s « Foot » 1ue1t-Up-To- 1l Bhoulder-Blades, M, (ladstone *~Yes, in this country the mufls are curried In clrous-wugons. Cowe over sume thane und look at thom. John Brows, the Abelitionlst, is to haven atutuo, This will koeple ghown's namoe bo- for the peoplo for the nuavnundred yours or 80, Tho Dbusiness outlook In Kentucky was nover botter thas nt tho prosont thno. Nenrly m't]m' rucoliorso in tuo Stute is roported aa dolng well. *The Consul-Generalship at London ap- pears to bo the roward of Morritt, This lsn't quito up to the staudard, but it will do for Mone« duy's puper.”—S. J, 2o, Aun exchange says that “the King of Swo- don loves Hterature, nud hus donesomo practicul work n ity atd." This Is tho Ut Intimation thut any Of tho Stookholm: pupors hud been sup » 1t 1s stated that tho nstronomer Iroctor willsoun ba marrlod 10 & young widow of 8t, Josuph, Mo, Wo shull expgot to chroniolo tho discuvery of suvoral now sturs, togothor wigh an becaslonnl planet, by the Profeasor, fu cas Lo falls vut with his brido, A New York paper says that * Mr. IL J. Hawauell, the correspondent, his sued the Clty of Wushington for $2),000 on gecount of Injuries reccived by a fallln Janunry.,” Iuthis purt of the country povpl on't think a fall In Junuary 18 80 Lind, but whon 1t comes to u wiater in Aprl thoy ubject. Whereas on certain houghs and sprays Nuw divors birds are heard to sing, And sundry Howers hair boads upralso— Hall 1o tho return of spring. Tho sangs of those sald birds arvuse The mem'ry of our youthful hours; As yruen 18 thaso subd sprays aod boughs; As freah and aweot us thoso kaid flowors Ob! husiest term of Cupld's court, Whoro tonder plasntiifs uctlos bring; Houson of frotio aud of sport— Hall, us aforeintd, coming spring, ¥, AL Burta, AUy-ab-Lpu