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3 The Trilmie, TRItMB OF SUBSCRIPTION. Epeciman coplea sont fren, G';:n Pau—u‘mna addross in full, Incjuding Connty and Btate, . 3 Tamittances mav bo mnde eithar by drafl, express, Fost-Offica order, or in reulstered lottor, at our sk, TO CITY BURSCRINENS. Defiy,dalivercd, Bunday oxceplod, 255 canta por we Tnily,dolivered, Bunday inoluded, 30 conts per wask. Addresa TUE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearbarn-sth. Yhlcagotil. VOSTAGE, Entered at the Post-Ofice at Uhleago, 11l as Scconds p Class Matler, Forthe benent oronr patrons who desire to_rend single coples of THR TRINUNK through the mall, wo sivehorawith tha transiont rato of postago: Domestic. Fightand Twelve Pago Paper, Blxteon PASO L'8PEFwiiese Forelgn, Eight and Twolve Page Fapel Blxtoen PakoY's TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. ‘ TUNE has established branch offers m"r".i‘é".'.‘o.‘fé‘. of subscriptivns nad mdvortiess Tmonts xa follawa: _ NEW YORK~Iloom 2 Tribune Bullding. F.T.Mo- FALDEN, Manager, GLASGOW, Hcollsnd—Allan's American News Areney, 81 Renfleld-st. LONDON, Eng—American Exchange, ¢89 Btrand, HENAY 5. G1LL10, Arent. -V ANTLNGTON, D, ¢, 10 ¥ atrost. AMUSEMLY 'S, : Grand Opera-Ionae, Clork streot, ojposit now Court-louse. Engage- nllql of D'Oyloy Carta & Rico's Comio Upera Cume pany, “Billeo Taylor a, Tinverly's Thentre. * Tesrborn sireat, corner of Monros. Engsgement of Genaviovo Ward. " Forgot-dlo-Not." Tootey’s The: _Rendolph stroot, between Cl ¢mgemont of Robson and Crai and LaFalle, Ene AT, 1900 McVicker's Theatrs, \ .Madion streot, hotweon. Btato and Dearborn. #“The Legion of 1lonor.” . Olympie Theatre. Clark atreet. borween Lake and Randolph, Ene agoment of tho Kelly & ityan Combination, Varioty cutortatnment, Acndemy of M e, «Talatea strot, near Aladison, WestSide, Variety ®ntertalnmont. —_——r e ] MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1818, " BeAcoNsFIELD is atill nlive, and Is nble to tako nourlshment, but his weakness remalins source of constant anxloty, _Croupy wenthor, with lighit rain or snow, and no decided change In temperature, may ‘bo looked for to-dny in this region, Aforugn rich Englishman has failen Into the hands of bandits, and is held for a heavy ransoni. DBrigands near Salonien were the chntors, In this case, and their prico Is $76,000, Anvices concerning the massnero of Col. Flotter and his exploring party in Trinoll are Tully confirmed. 'Thio commantder und all the Frenchmen of the expedition were killed by the natives after n bravo resistance agningt hieavy odds. 5 Tue remnins of the -Into Senator Matt II. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, wore yesterday buried In Forest Home Cemetery, at Mil- watkee, with Imposing ceromantes, About 30,000 people viewed the body ‘as it lay In state at tho Conrt-Tlouso. A pronanty: murder, the resultof a pro- tracted Sundny debaueh by o purty of ruf- fiang' In this beantifully-governed city of ours, Is chronfeled this morning., It s a natural outgrowth of the **whis open” yolicy as applled to snloons of the lowest and vilest deseription, Tng Olengo Labor Uyion at its meeting yestorday adopted resolutions recommending -that the tenants of Chleago refuse to move, and hold on to thefr prosent premises nnti . ufter the 1st of May, not renting elsewhere, 14 is proposed to hold nmass-meeting to carry into effect tho purposs of the resolutions. .ADDITIONAL roports have heon -recolvad in Washington concernlng rich mineral dg- velopmenta in Alaskn, Placer operations nre ajready belng earcled on with profit, and it is said valuable quartz ledes have been ais- covered abont 300 mljus north of Sitka and twonty miles from the Dritlsh Columbia lipe, : J/Fug end of the trinl of the bomb-throwers in Su Petersburg s what was unlversnlly ox- peeted, the ore 8o as they mada na” denlal of their complicity In the plot to assasinate the Iate Czar. Al were found guilty, amd at 6:20 o'clack yesterdny suntonce of death by hanging wes pronounced. ‘The sentence of Bophin Pleoffsky will ‘be submitted to the Czar for approval, she belng of noble birth, © et — BEnstoxs are given In our columns this wornimg—by the Rov., Dy, Thomas, on *The Last Words of Jesns,” and by Prof, Swing, on "“James, tho Apostle of Works?; beshles acgounts of pn experlonce meeting at what is known as Moody's Church on Chicazo ayenup, pnd of the Saturdny and Bunduy praceedings of the Northern Indinup Methe o(l(st Conforence, It Is sald Slr Alexander Gnlt I8 grenlly dissatisfied with his positlon as Canadinn igh Commissloner In England, He findy Dimself to by about ng usetul as a ffth wheel ad s ornpmental us o figare-head; Iy fiot, ean do nothing without first getting the sanction of the Dominion Government— nothing excopt to spend i lob of monoy w Koep up the dignity of his positlon, Bo he wants to go hom MaTtens in Tunls are getting warm, Tn reply to a telegram from the French Govern- ment annonnelng its Intention to send tronpa to chnstiso the Khowmis, and to accupy the - Valley of the River Mojerdnh, which. runs nenrly through the contre of Tunly, the Boy Jins sent back word that -such occupation wjll be without his consent, and nguluat his vigorous protest, and that I it ocours he - will not hold himselt rasponsible for tha con. sequpnces, Whlch 1s only another way of saylug that ho will conshiler’the Fronch oc- cupation an act of war, and will resent aud vaslst 1t sccordlngly, 1 0 i ———— Tire attitnds of Parnell and his followers *Iy Parlinment toward the nuw Land bill yet Temalna an open questlon, Jn & speech lasy - eyening ut & banquet in Dublin Parnoll spoke of the first portion of the inopsure ng belug full of pitfalls and doubtful poipts—so doubtful that nobody could tell acourately how it would work, It would remain for the Irlsh smembersto lmprove upon the billin this respect as far as possivle, with a view to mpking 16 s advautageous as possible to tenanis. He looked for important results fram tha sscond portion of the bill, though evidently of, tha npinion that Hts proylsions Wyuld noy operate with -‘wwuc severity THE CHICAGD TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APKIL 11, 1831, upon bad Iandlords. In- R subsequont apeech the snina evening Parnell warned tho people that the batile, o, far from being won, had only just begun, Tsr Onmoaco TrsuNe of yesterday-wag ilie Inrgest gingle editlon eyer printed by a Chleago Sunday paper. It issued n fow coples short of 60,000 papers. - As there were o tralns out of the clty oxcept on the Mil- waitkee Road, 3t 1s within bounds to say that 53,000 coples of the paper were sold In Chis engo. In printing this edition over 8)¢ tons of paper were used, and na ton of type was set, The ndvertlaing statistics of the paper were still moreastonishing. Thera were In all 741¢ columns of aavertisements, * divided s follows: Display, &; small (wants, ete,), 333 pald notlces, 81, The total number of adveriisoments was 2,690, divided ns fole lows: Small, 2,483; display, 187; pald no- tices, 57 The only comparlgon which ean be made Is with thé New York Herald, . 'That paper, Sunday before Inst, had 02 colimns of advertlsing, It had et pages, and 0 columns to the page, while Tns Trimune had 20 pages with 7 columns to the page, But Tne Tunuxe’s columns areboth wider and longer than the Herald's, so that the getunl amount of advertising, when edr- reetly measured, would crowd closely upon the Heruld's, Next Sunday we anticipaten still greater rush, aud shall be ready to ace conmuodate it. 1t shoull bo rentembered In this conucction that this is_nota speeinl spurt, drummed up by eanvassers for weeks In advance, but one day’s representation of 1he enormous bustness of Chicago that flows into 'Tne TripuNe's counting-room, — . JOINING 1830E, Stanford and Gould, Pacific Rallway mo- nopolists, and Gould and Vanderbilt, telo- graphic monopolists, do not defend thelr acts ‘and positlons by cxouses and ex- planations. They take the public bull by the hornsand threaten to break 1ts neck. Stan- ford, of San Francisco, tho forty-million plutaerat, denounces the Supreme Court de- cisions nsserting tho right of the States to regulate rallways, Impudently insists that they are private property, notwithstanding the fact that not one of them could have hod nn oxistence without the exercisd of the right of eminent domain, reslding solely In tha State, refers flippantly to the theory of Government control a3 a rello of barbarism, and defies the Governmemt to interfere except upon condition of the purchaso of the rond, Including watered stock, of course. Fink, the great Railway Pool Commissioner, writes a8 {f backed by mill- fons of capital, ns ho 1s, boldly assertlng that the rallways have done no wrong, and plensantly assuring the public that thelr own- ers atud managors are innocents in danger of belng driven to despajr and bankruptey by the cruel public. Dr. Green, Gould’s leu- tenant, * pokes” fun at the public for its verdaney In trying to control his chief, and, flourishing o handful of dissolved Injunce tions nguinst the telegraph consolldation seheme, lnughs pleasantly in the face of his nudience, the American people, ns it lie: would say, with the utmost good nature: *“What are yon golnz to do #bout ity Mennttine Mr, Vanderbilt and M5, Gould treat tho subjuct with gravity, protesting that they are wenrlng thomselves out in puilanthrople efforts In .the. serv- fee' of -tho publici thot they ‘ara un- selfish to a wonderful degree, aud rob themsolves of the swuet solnce of sleep In efforts to reduee the oharges of transportn. tlgn to the lowest price conslstent with the necessity of providng for their families out of the mengrn profits of their little rallway enterprises. The varled character of the defenses Interposed by, the monopolists, the cool deflunce, the firm denlal of the right of any powur to Interfere, the cureful de- fense of stock-watering operations, and dis- crlminntions on through contracts, and con- solldatlons, and poolmg, the retory explann- tory, the retort courteous, and the retost fmpudent,—all thess show that they are prepared to hold thelr galns, watered stock and ull, at every hazard, But thero 1s & new phase to the con- test which s worthy of mnotice. Mr, ¥, B, Thurber, a yleh merchant of New York City, hns placed himselt In the ** fore- front” oftho battle ngainst rallway abuses, - At tho head of the Natlonal Auntl-Monopoly League, Mr. Thurber has called, uttentlon to the fuct that the Scnate of the great State of New York dare not pass a measure atlecting rulways without tho consent of Mr. Vander- blit. o has published broadeast the sub- stanca of tho Hepburn Commlttes report, which is n startling reyelation of the cor- rupt Influence exerted upon leglslution In Now York by the rallway. companies,—reve- lutlons of this sort, as witness the follow- {ng extraot trom the testimony of Jay Gould: 1 do not know how mitch [ patd towurd holp- Ing triondly mon, We [tha Erio] hud = four -Btites to look ufter, and wa bad “to suit our politics ta clreumstunces, In o Demoerstio district 1T wns n Domocrat; in o Hepublienn lstriet I waa o Republienn; amnd In a doubtful district L was doubtful, but in overy distriet und utall thnes 1 have ntways been au Erie mun. Ho has suggested the proprioty of the sclzure by the Statp of Now York of the Cen- tral & Hudson River Railway line at the thne, now near nt hand, of tho expiration of its charter, In cvery way possible he has agitated the subject of rajlway abuses, and urged the peoplo to grapple with and crush theny, ‘Tho monopohsts have doubt less beon restlve under this censoless war- fard, but how conld they meet 1t? M Thurber Is not a Congressman, and - henco the eplthet demngog Is scarcoly applicable to i, - 1o I8 not'n eandidate- for Mayor of New York City, and hence cannot he charged with ndesire to sscure political Influsnce, 1lels o merchant, ut tho head of n grent house whoso business I8 coextensive with the bowiids of the country, s bhustness has suffered through the extortions aud unjust diseriminations ot the rallways, and ho shows Just how 16 has suffered Iy a plnln, bLlunt -way, The wonopolists have let him severoly alone, hoplng, doubtless, that he waould exhaust hiis ammunition aud tiveof the fight. t But this liope has not beon realized, Mr, Thurber §s Indefatigablo; his guns are il shotted, und ho keeps itp n_constunt cannop- nde, Somethimg inust bo dane to counteract the effect of this incesant warfave, 'Tho Now York Tpibune hus found a ground for attack, It culls him o liar by innuendo, 1t Inquires whether lie s "a reputablo busl- nessman or a Joromy Diddler.” It wants to kuaw whotliorhie Jins not in faot besy en- gaged ** In tho wanufacturd of bogna brandy amt whisky,out of erude plealiol aud finvor- Ine extracts, while - pretending to ba a tepis perunico mun™; whethor o Is not “engnged in making Logus huney out of glucosa”; whether he does not * sell oleomargarine for butter, frandutently coneealing its repl chinr+ - neton,” eto, ety Finally, i wants to know it the solo wotive of Ar,-"Thurber's Aght agalnst the New Yark Central is not fo oxs tart spucia) rates of frelght oy hlmaelf, and whother he hos not offered to stop 1§ 16 hy -ean get sucli rates? Mark, this Is all by Ins nuendo, s volloy of insinuations, fuvolying the suggestion of gt and consequent Infamy, ‘This vile assanly upon one of the wost prominent and, we bolleye, ang of the maost respected merchants af New York City sliows liow maliclous, how vindlctive, the rallway monopalists catbe, and shows that thoy can flud an agent to oxpress and pyblish thelr malice, It wonld detract spmiewhat from the dignlty of ‘the Venderbllte aug us nooessity undnr which tho Irlsh hava jan " Gvorsinco Hugliahimon baai o fock Ay romed sibillty for the conditlon of Irotund ut bulk of tho 6 per conts will avall thamsulves of the priviloge of retalning thelr securitics at 81¢ per contwhenever the proposition shail Goulds to be mlll[tl‘ll in the act of throsing vitrlol In tha faces of thoir opponents, and so they have confided tha vitrlol-throwing bust- than 1t was befora the War o the oxtent of the Incrcase of population, nad ns that popii- Jution has nearly, doubled the ability to pay othing moro nor leas than a man full of. wit aud sareasm, who around his home hoarth en- rnptures his triands with his brilliant sultios, but (i 15, 8inco the Unlan—uf resurtitie (0 violoos wa il blo to enthuse tho great 4 4 1 ness to other hands,—lot out tho contract, 8o | be formally made by the Government, ‘The | the debt has nearly doubled. ;;2.;“;:" o ;::;Ie. Top smart not & ho ‘.‘!:‘;",’.‘,',fi ”‘,fi;’;‘,“,:{,'g;{’,;:l‘g":".‘"‘l}’.{‘wfi'rfi;r;mv nfig ta spenk, nt 80 much n Mne. Jut everybody | more who prefer to take their money, ‘I'his 18 not n **earnet-bag clebt ” nor a Con- i tberal, he Is novortholess a stranger to the thew, é’om lo tnlk hus nover produced people, 1o wants to be left atune, becanse ho of P knows who supplics the stock of sulphuria | the better It will be for the Govern- | faderatadobt, but an ante-war debt, which slightost ofTaat on English opidon.” Tho. fies? acld. The rallway monopolists are entaged | ment. n tho meanttme, . thero scems | the black Ropublicans themselves are fn | wants to live urdmolosted fn Parls, A 23“:;"1?;’}2%;'":&:‘ -%':‘,‘.Tv"fi'.‘.‘-"‘-f,"i.}'li‘.?.';:i‘:m at Mr. Thurber, and they proposo to rain his | to bo no . renson why the Govern- | favor of paying, though tho bulk of its pay. | man who® feirs mnlmnu«;nl iflt "lflt rgmnnnriumll ngninst lnvlm.‘xnuon for u:fi‘. charncter, strlke him down, cover him with | ment should delny the lssuo nnd sale of the | ment must conio out of the products of their :lu:'::r':l"“'j:‘“ o""::,! gnn;:nn 'flb:mflq Rl yenrs. notonly "'.lg:;:,‘,y“'fif{:;},’.’.’{mm".‘fi"mfi‘ foul abuse by fnsinuation and lunuendo. Wo | 8104,000,000 0f 4 per cents at the eurrent pre- | labor, d its repudiation by Bourbons s the | Jorome bas abaiodted. Tho Donnpartiets are | Klish - contempt for | thom and e shinil sa0 of what stult ho fs mado.and wo | mium. It nopart of the procecds of such | most' glaring instanco of unguaililed. dis- | without o loador, bocatise they have not o Proe | Phes took aras and rome jo f pacol shall see also whether the community of took armas and began fo kil peonle, mnke a great nolse, tholr onuse foind Rowetfy] defenders, nnd underwent thorough discuss) snlu shall bo needed to tnke up the 6 per ! 3 honesty and of personal and politiéal rasentl- cunts, tho money can still bo ‘used to advan- | tunder, und for thom * Protendor' and ! Lead- ty that hns yet appenrcd: in the anmals New York will' not resent so gross anout- or* aro synonymous. France I8 tired of Napo-/| and now, after three smnil fights, ago upon their fellow-cltizen. % tago I tho redemption of & per cents, Some | of, .ropudiation, 1t does not: lny * In | looniam ovon when orowned with o etp “"":"; vy that neurly overything oy ‘,'ll'"f;f,"fl""',';} . 214,000,000 of tho prineipal of the dabbenn be | tha ~mouth of -the North Caroliua, |=t¥, And Franco is, furthermoro, willing that.| cedod to them, but that deep respect for theg THE SENATORIAL DEADLOCK. eanceled outright through the premium ro- | B e B e Semath whave | SADREIOnCn Bia s Yory AIL Gxer author of repudiation, the ex-tiovernor of n Stale which uwnder its Funding lnw has-re- pudlated $24,000,000 of tho debl and. the In- torest. thoreon onfright, and convgniently Ignored £2,000,000 mors of debt and Intorest, to attack the Senntor from Virginia, who was in favor of havink West Virginla assumo her equitable share . of Wie . old State debt, cspeclally when Vanes's own party, as scon ns it-came into power in West Virginia, re- pudinted fta-part of the old. debt, and n Demoeratie Goverior of West Virginla pro- clatmed I/ Stato paper that the State did not vwe aud wns not bound' to pay any por- tion of the dubt of Otd Virginin,—both of which agsertions, were seandalously false. THE TRANBVAAL PEACE. The peace lately concluded Letween the Tnglish Government and tho Boers, as we Judge from the tone of tho English press, docs not go down with’ perfect satisfaction, The dose has been taken with iany o grlnace, nml there is o very general expres- slon of opinion that {f thelr army had won a stgnal vietory oyer the Boers, and had opencd the way.into the I'ransvanl by driving them away from Lalng’s - Neck and dispersing them, then the pence wonjd have been n matter for general congratulation. The Spee- tatar, one of the Liberal organs, thinks that the settlement with the Boers will do, I 1t works well, “and that js all we care to say for ft. It1s not n.perfect softlement, but wo: o not ses how a better could e ‘ob- falned.” So far ns the terms are concerned thero 18 o general feellng of satisfaction. T'he "lransvaal hereafter-will be n protected Indian State, Its rulers ncknosvledging Great Bittuln as the paramount Power, surrender- fng Its eontrol of foreign policy, and ndmit- ting . Resident -at tho Capital, who, will ‘have certaln rights of- advice and veto whenever the local Govermmment gets into trouble with the surrounding ccuntry. . Un- der tho scttiement the Tnglish nlso get the cession of n considerable tract of country on Ahp castward, and _they "nlse secure tho natives,- outside Boor authority, for whom they are’ responsible, for **the rulers of the ‘I'rapsvaal eanpot ynder:tha treaty Inyade; the Zulus, or bringon a war with the great Matabnle -tribe on the :north, or oppress Secocoonl’s people, or -take any step Invalv- fnx them with othor native tribes,—all that 13 covered by tho clauge resorving foreign ho Trig exporionce ins been very Mmilar, nwlllng to thair mmrnclsyln E,}x"lm?lfflliml:h:b tompts at reaistance huvo been less fortunatg, They havo thoroughly learned tho losson thyf when thoy scek any grave changes in leglnlation thoy must nrin thoinacly itter the moat hoer, blu'thrents, and indulge in nssasination und nrseg on n grent seale. § ' By kicking up a great “ruction,” refusing y most on mnaso to pay rent, * Boyeotting " sevony ‘abnoxlous people, going through tho pretonse of buging arms, exploding n box or two of powdey apalust & wall in a mystorlous manner at nigy sendng anonymous, threatoning letters, and by other similar menns, the Irish have oxtorte from the party.In power a Land Roform bill ig. finitly ‘moro Jibernl than the most sanguing dreamed of a yonr ago, and If,thoy only keep making sitlialent nolso and row for a few months, 1t will puss Parlinmont and bocome a law, to thy enormous rellof of the whole Isluud, , B e sonted to hor by Plo Nono, shall remnit wharo shais, and spend the rost of hor lifo In that bucoie solltude_which ‘wiil sooner heal ‘ihe wonds of her soul than tho tumultuous life In tho political arunp. ¥ . ———— At the meeting of the Now York Chamber of Commorce Inst Friday to conslior Loland Btanford's {neolont letter defendiog vallroad nbuses, the Committee, In presenting a reply thoroto, sny: e 1t i8° ovidant tont this oxpression of oplnlon has recuived carofil Iegal muparvision and in- terpretation, and yet It Is remurkable for & bold- nesa of nssortion of rallroad olalms nad u inft contamnpt for tho decisions of nur Courts which cin only apring from a consolousncss of power, and which falrly Joins fssite with thoso made in bohalf of tha pibila, Tt now remains to bo scen —nyt which Is-neurest right, for the highcet Conrt In tho land hus nlready deoldod the prin- ciplas involvel I favor of tha paoplo, but— whothor the Eunp 0, through tholr Govermnont, can cotitrol the ratfronds, or whothor tho rall- ronds shall nbsolutely coutrol tho peoplo, Mr. Fradorluk A, Conkling anid that ho was a mombor of the Thirty-soventh Congress, which enncted tho uhur;?r, of the Unlon Pacifle Rond. It was elven a bafiug of $10,00n milo -for the first 800 inllos, $18,000 n inllo for the 830 miles in- cluding the parts of the rond orosalug the Roeky Mountaing und the Slorra Novadn, and corros #ponding bonuges for othor portions; 400 foet of | land nlong the entire route, and the right to use all tho grave!, timher, and 8o on. They wore nlso zlven altorantn sootions of and ten milos widenlong tho entire routo, and $84,000,000 in honds wera fssued balore thoy did A stroka of work, Thoy also had tho Govornment lien made seennidnry to an fssuo vf £00,000,000 of * thelr own and had tho land-grant doublod. The lunds bo- longing to this great Company now comprise an area almnse doublo the British Islands—Kngland, Ireland, Beotlnand, Wales, Guernsoy, Jorsoy, and utner ontlyiug Islands,~and including France as wull. Such o Job was. nover witnessed in- any nation- of the world, Every attompt to' get tho yens ‘and’ unys on any -~ ques- tlons with regard to it ‘in Congress proved nhortive, und Mre. Durant, Prosidont of tho Come-.. pany, charged $300.03) for pontingonciey for which ho had ng vonchors and which was palt for putting the job throuwh Congross. One por- tion of tho francblse provided fara rpmit from Bloux Clty.to tha Paojfio **by tho nearest and most practicable route,” Thoe Company bullt on tha dend jovel botloms of the Missourd River for the purpose of acquiring its rich alluvial Jands in place of tho less valuablo uplandi, They got $1,600.000 in cash, and 1,230,090 ncrus of Innd for the construction of, this 1,603 milos nf railrond ns u bonus, At the end of sixty-oight mlles thoy were twonty milos further from tho Pueific const than whon thoy started. At the end of 100 mlles thoy were just six miles nearor tbe Pacifio than whon they atarted. * For Gov. Btanford, with his $1),00),03) or $50,000,00), mado The general publle Is becoming dlsgusted with the sonile fully and puerito farco golng on week after week In the Senate, Each side has tied ltself by a caucus edict which both protend enunot be broken. ‘Thers are not six Senators on elther sldo but are fully awnre of the pitinble speetaclo tha Bonate fs making of ftself, DBut to this thme nota single Senator on elthar slido has had the courage to defy tho mandate of the stupld asinine eaucus decres and rofuse to be bound down to an improper wasta of publie tlme, an embarassing interference with Lx- ccutive affalrg, and an indignity to the American people. Some of the gentlomen have run nway for their own personnl com- fort or ndvantage, but they have been care- ful to pair oft with thelr opposits In oxder that stupld folly and the deadlock may be malntained, 7 = And what Is this struggle all nbout? Do the Senatdrs supposd that the poopls are 1g- norant of it? Whatever speclous reasons may be given, it s nothing more than a con- festaver o few clerkships, The Democratio Senators want the presont clorks to draw pay during the vacation for no service ren- dered, and the’Republicah Senators insist that their henchimen shall now e Installed o draw pay for no serviee until next winter, This Is renlly nll tho principle Involved on elthor side. “Both setsof Senntorsare agreed that the Trensury shall be robbed by a couple of hundred swell loafers for six months. "I'he Repubiicans have a sliglit advantage in claiming that they represent o constitutionnl mnjority of the Sennte; Lut the Demnocrats retort that the Republieans have not a con- stitutional quorum ; that from March 4 till to- day they hava nover had votes ‘enongh of’ their giyn present to constitutoa anorum, if the other slde, following tho precadents of the Republieans all last sesson, refuse to vote on questions they nre opposed to. Such being tha fact, what is the earthly usc of con- suning tinieln tho deadiock over elerkships ¥ ‘The public business will be suspended so long as the Democrnts ghall refuse to recog- nize the clabins of the ‘party mojority. The Tepublieans should hnve made an earncst effort to assert their rightto elect new offl- cers, but when 1t beeamo ovldent that tho Democrats wera both disposed and ablo to provent them from dolng 8o at this uxecutive sesslon, the Republlcans should have proe alized upon the sale of the authorized 4 per cents, and'1 por cent interest can be saved on the balance, Indeed, with this. fund at the back of 1t, the Governtment will he avle to mako.tho same terms with the holdersof.6 per cunts ng with the lioldors of 0 por centa. 1nterest nmounting to 13§ per cent may bo saved on 246,000,000 of 5 pér conts ns well as 214 pur cent on §200,000,000 ot 8per cents by the same plan.” Such an aehlevement would neeomplish virtually all that Congress fatled to do in rofusing to pass a Funding blll une leas it coukd punish and bulidozo the Natlon- albanks. > < THE FRANCO-TUNISIAN AFFAIR. The now complication between Franee and Tunis Is almost amusing when it I3 conald- "ered in ull Its ramifieations, Unquestion- ably, the ultimate atm of France Is lo selze upon Tunis and annex It, ns she did Algurin, and in much the same way, ' The Dey of thnt provineo seized upon French posscsslons seeurity for money owed to certaln Jewish merchauts in his capltal, whereupon Franco Invaded the country, and not only retook tho possessions that wera in the: hauds of the Doy, but his whole property, and nnnoxed it. 1n this complicntion with Tunls she mnkes n similar compipint—namely: that the Tunisi- ans—in reallty a border tribe, the Khonnls— have seized ceriain real estate belonging to a Fronch loan company, aud that she Is botnng to punish the Khoumis for it, The slzeof the Tyrco she has sent there, however, looks more. like conquest: than retalintion. - Mean- while it has leaked' out that at the time the Treaty of Borlin was slegned Franco con- sented to the English occupation of Cyprus upon conditlon that when she was' ready she conld lave Tunls, But meanwhile the French are moving upon some property that Lelongs to Englishmen, and. they have ap- pealed to thele Home Government for pro- tection. +Italy has no claim wpon “Tunls, ex- cept that she has n lucratlve eommerce with her, aud that Ltaljan creditors—jointly with Engllsh and French—administer the reve- nuest and yet the mere prospect of- hostility has tumbled the Itallan Ministry into rufns, Mennwhile Tinis Is tributary to Turkey, and yetthe Porte has not opeueil its nouth to complaln, Germany and Austria have noth- Ing ntstake In Tunis. It 1s an lusignificant Httle country, but It may yet involve En- Dr, Dwonyascury, one of the'phystelan who attendoed tho assnslynted Czar during hy laat moments, hna published In the Bt, Peter. burae ¥ Jjedomoalf an article In which hodiscusy ho point whaotber or not tho Czar's lifo couy havo been saved; and ha comes to tho cog. cluslon thint, although the twitchings of Aler ander's loft eyo denoted .concusslon” of (he brain, the other Injuries recelyed by him wery not.absolutely futal.’ Doth of tho Blntterd lower limbs might buve bron amputateil at firg without Incrensiug tho dangor to his life; bit ho had lost such epormons quantities of hlood Immodiatoly after recelylug his injurlos thay amputation could not bo resorted to at tho timg ‘when De, Dworjnachin was onlled to the Czury Ledside, “ The Doctor concludes his artlclo ty stiting that §f good medical nasistance had heey’ on hand immedintely aftor the oxplosidn of th bomb; It tho oecort of the wounded Czar hd not lost thelr honds: if a compresston of tho ar tories had been effested, or both the oxtremp tles aboye the wounded parts tightly laced, thy Emperor would have beon ‘saved. The learned Doator may Le correot in ull this, butan Empe ror without lexs, minus ono hand, and: with but ono oyo, would make & sorry Czar for the Iue slane. Headless Bmperoraand Kings may do, but Russlun Czars without legs hnd better be dead, — . IlrunERT GrADSTONE, n'son of the gnn! Promier, mndo his maidon spoceh In Parllument | & fortnight ago, duplng thd debate on tho polley | of evacuativg Candobary' and the' offdrt way' w’n;{ succosaful, Tho London Spectalor saps ol 4 5 1 f1o st down amidst ringing ohecrs, ‘ tald by Mr. Glbson, ninldst EEoEAl srdom s | “The House recognized in him quniltios-which would lead to distingulshed position.” Homg , of. his scntences wore very. bappy. Ho asked wwhy Tories, who thought Russians fioupiblo of . tru(h,nlwn{l Lelleved thom 1€ they threates Indla. Ho Inquired why, when it was clear thap India could not be held without command of ths !?1"" lligum. should hold: it more englly thag ceeded to the buslness which properly takes | Klend, France, and: Haly Ina }"’"000‘.‘"?"0'1 polley absolutely to tho Crown. That 18 o | outof rubborlos porpotratod on tho pooplo, to | thoged '2'.'.‘? oo i‘l‘\?flulu’:’lmg)l.fién? Wns o precedonce of mero varty udvantage. Thero | 8quabble, not to -mention Turkey, 'Tho | clause which can bo enforced, and will bo | issnosuoh @ lottor us hobus, strikes mo," auld tha | to “invado” Indin, which - was impossible, are mora than 250 Presldential uppointments | present indications are that France will tako | wugorced, forany opon yiolatlon of it will bea | Bneaker,*nsan act of unpardonubloauducity.uy 'l'(‘é:ém r:; “%u}‘l‘ilnr:?mf% oo vt e that nwnit the action of the Sennté,—some of | Tunls first and have the squabble: after- | duclaratton of war,” It Is not the settloment | Uelug worly of stronger lanzungo-than that i L] holped them tn-that. Lord Pulinerston was very ungry when the French occupled Algoria, bee .enuso Algurin was one of tho gutos of Indis. ‘That oplnlon sounded almoat ridicutlous now, and twenty yenrs henco ho could not but hope that thie Oppoaition would recognizo the ground- lesneas of ‘tholr present fears. Tho Komun Em- iro was stralned, and at Inst destroved, not by defent, but by want of mon; and, (f' we expand 1n nll directions, that also might bo tho fato of the Hritish Einpira. Aitogothor, it wua made «evidont that Loeds ind not made o mistake, sad that wy hava one imore promising young mem. ber In tho Houso of Commons. There s no glus of them, L= BAys “Qath”: As to the row over tho Now York Collectorshf appotntment, thoru is no telling whnt the ang will be, I the Prosldont {nslsts that Judge Rob- ertson shall be confirmed, he will bo, no matter Wwhothor * My Lurd Cardinal” sulks ur nol. yThore is.this danger 1o tho Admlnluxuunilfi 0 Wl words, BENATOR VANOE'S DISCOMFITURE, The discomfiture of Senator Vance, of North Caroling, in his assanlt upon Senator Mahone, was a3 complete ns the repudintion record of his-Stale has been disgraceful. Ilo was literally. holsted with lis own potard, and holsted so high that it Is exceed- ingly difiteult to recopnize him. Senator Vance* ostentatlously bousted In advanco that hig would show that North Caroling was not o repudiating State. When it come to the showing, he not only miserably failed to make good his ‘munouncement, but he was shown to bo.the author.of repudiation in his: own State, and’ thgt'uxb repudlition in his own State was moro disgracefal and dis- honest than that in-any other State in the whole-South, - *The’debate bronght the proofs home with, crushing force. 1t was shown thnt when he wus Uovernor of North Caroljnn In 1877, and nlso In 1879, hio openly favorgd ropudiatlon in his messages to the Leglslature, In his message of January, 1870, only two years ago, hie used the following language: The public debt, it will bo scen by the Trens- with which it Is characterizqd In this roport.” Bpeakingof tho contraots with the rallroad, the apenkor said that the peoplo would not be con- vinced that Congress had over. peded thoso vights, - « them nmong the hizhest and most tmportant publie l.rusts,—mul there ara four or five treatles,’ notably the: new Chineso treaty, which should bedisposed of, All thisisbusi- ness that can be done ns well while Mr. Burelt 1s Seorctary. and. Mr. Bright Sorgennt-at- Armsgas it can be after Mr, Gorham, o re- pudinted holter, of California, shail be eleoted Secretary, and Jir, Riddoelberger, Re- adjuster, of Virginla, Serguant-at-Arms, Phough the right of tho struggle I8 anthe sldu of tho Republicans, tho exerciso of thut right Is not sufliclently Imperntive at this thua to justify nn Indefinit postponement of all publle business. ' It s only the traditfonnl povwer of the cauens In Amerlean polities that conld hold men of intelligence and free will to o course which thelr Judgmeny eannot approve, It the party enucus Is supremo (n o body ke the United States Senate, 1t Is ldle to hope for any abatement In: its power in subordinate councils; ‘The condition lends up to the reflection that, while party con- tintes to be so ubsolute’n factor In the Amerlean systen, men are justified, not merely in . ottaching themselves to such political organization as they belleve to be itself, but the manner In which 1t has been made, that galls the feolings of the averaxe I glistiman, 1Iedoesnot relish a peacomade im- medintely after a hard defeat, and when the relnforcements were eloso nt hand which waould speedily have ovorwhelmed the Boors, Ly fopee of nujbers, . The London Stand- «wrd I8 fearful that the pence may * give body awl energy to the disuffectiou of the anti- Luglish Africanders {n-evory part of South Afrlen, and Instill into- the native races dan- werous notions of the Impotenenof Epmmm." "Plto Pall Mall Guzette (Liboral) thitiks that #the uction of the Governmoent secures all that nutional. honor. In unfon with conimon sensu ‘could demnnd,” and+yet It Is very doubtful about the future, especinily about the ‘effect of - the- British rule’ over native poptintions, It says: 3 1t 8 0 humilinting confesslon to have to make, but npvertheless tho faet nust he rocognlzed, that to place native populations under Dritish rule is not oxnetly nn unfullhu{l qnumumu for .thoir Just goyernmont, or for tholr advance I civilizutlon, The conditlon of the nutives In | Nutul, whero the relnn of nutlve government huve nlways been' tightly held by Imperful oltieiuls, 18 it condition of sunotioned proilignoy andleygnlized sluvery. As for the wrongs thut have biean done “to ‘native populutiona 1n tho Tirosk are sadly mistaken indeed who be- iovo that the Nihiliatip organjzations are solely composed of such patriotio clements as aro de- terminod to glve tho peoploof Russiu liberty and o representative form of Governmont. There are othor ejemeunts contalned within theso ‘seoret organizations just as dangerous and determined as, if not moro so than, theon- thusiastic younyg mon who pro willing to pro- rifice tholr Jives for tha realization vf thuir dreams of Russian lberty and roform. Atoxe ander 11, gavo the korfs- thelr liborty, “Tho sev- . oral conseqiences of this groat step did pot con- tributoto inorunso thp loye for himof thoso whom he thus deprived of. tho labor of thoir chattels. The number of persons who waora so- clully rulned by tho Inauguration of this groat measure §s large enough to form an army of congplrators with u full ataff of lendors. - Thoso drones, who were rich, while thelr bpes~tho serfs—worked for thom, have gradually becomo woorer and poorer. They bave overythiog to Kuin ond notbing to lose but thoir lives, which, without n chunge for tho botter in thelr social coundition, are of very.little value to thom, Bo- clinl questions are moroe dificult of solution than 1f by .18 confirmod: Lord Roaco procecid at onco 80 Lo shupo motter, that Garfleld Wil find §t no cusy task to seoure u renoumlnas on, ha wero not umbitious for o socond term, tha Presidont conld kick tho truces, Jobandon “all restraint, and givo Caonkling a suund drubbing, 1t is tho turn nt lust inthe long lano which causes him to nalt, for bo i 10t 0 poor a pohiticlan as not to kuow that with tho open antngonisin of Conkling, which means Grant attyehoil and the follow(ng hohind him, a sccond nowmination could be defeated, .Bnd 1tis Just thisthat the Presidont dous npt want, ‘Hlo 8 too younir & non to retire from political life, and an ex-Prosident seldom coinos promis nently to the surfuce again. It is quoted of Conkling that, when osked: ns to his nttitude i€ Outcen's namo, thoy. wre siinply innumernble. | political problems. Will tha young Czar find | over tha Collectorship nomination, hls roply urer's report, anounts to- 10,060,045 prineipul, P2 M ton, W ¥ A moat conductve to the welfare of the Nattan, | and 10,000,168 Tntoyust, This Y ention na e :fi::‘Il:”'lé;"nufl\;nl‘?r|y‘|i:-:lmnt‘“"llg %l:l croution. | men who pro compotent to load these eloments | Was: "' The President gnn plucod mo in a altia: Bt John's itiver in Pondotnnid by 8ir Bartle Frero and Lord Chelnwford was an autrage whiol, hud it buen committed by Dutehinen, wonbl huve ratsed an ontery nll through the conntry. The frontmont of the Griguns on the borders of Natal was just such another proceeding, . The Lungalibnlole affuir was tho direst work of oflicinls holdin theleappointments frou the Crawn. Tho war witl tha Rasutos Islmulm‘ruxnm?lu of whut natives maty expaut under British rule; and when, leay- Ing'the Pment. wo go bugk fnto the past, tho whole histury of Bouth Afriea [8 nothing but the history of native wars heonght nbout by tho un- Justierlon of Imperial ndministrators, and ro- Bulting ulwoys In fresh wnnoxations of nutiyo torrltory, 'here Ivanothér view of the future, how- ever, expressed quito generally, While the *“firc-eaters” growl about a peace made on the heets of -defeat, ‘thorp ls nlnrger clnss - that are willing to nccept It, becauso it s an- other step toward freoing England from un- comflortuble complicptions,—and the samne feelln 18" expressed with ‘referenca . to the ovacuation of. Afghanietan,—and pluces *her: In a position where: slio will not have her hends tled when the European ‘strugglo comes. 'Thoy say; .‘Bottle thé South Af- rien, Afghan, and Irish troubles, and then we shull b repdy to meet dur old enenyy on the Continent.” - It.1s. ovidont from all this that Englishuen at lenst do not regard pence In Buropo as-nssured by any meand, and recognized dobt, us scontrudistinguisbed from 1ho speelnl-tnx bondts, What shall bo done with It? ixu questlon thut desorves your best congid- cration, It isoutof the question for.ua to at-! tompt to pay it at (ta’ face valuo. Indecd, I do not conoeio that thero I8 any* moral obligation on us 1o do so, nor do our ereditors expeot It of us. Quite one-hrlf of our properiy upon which ur bonds wore busod ' was wantonly desiroyed by cansent of i lnrge mnjority of thoso who beld thom; and no Court “of consgloncoe upon the capth would permit o eroditor to destroy ono-nalf of bis seourity and claim full puyment out of the remainder, Could 'anything be clearer than this? At the same time, could anyiling bo moro in- famously. disgraceful,~the spectacle of tho Governor of a-State, speaking oflicially (o his Louglslaturo and taking open ground in favor of repudintion wpon . the false pretense that they were losing their slaves, thut *one-half of pur property [the'slaves] upon which our bonds werobnsed was wantonly destroyed by consent of & lorge’mnjority of those who held them”—~In other words, that tho bond- hplders were In fnvor of . erushing the e bolllon and lbernting the slaves ? This re- pudinting Bourbon: has' advoeated repudin. tion-on other oceaslons. It was ouly Inst Octobor ‘that he made a stump speech In Virginia on the samo day that Wade Inmp- }on mnde his disloyal speech, telllng the pea~ ple of that Btate o do *us we have tion whore I must commit aulcido or murder, and I huye ohosen murder!’” Tho ohances ars ten to ofie that the senlor New York Senatorif horo gorroetly roparted. It sounds like bim, It smncks of big brutul stvie, - Meanwhile, Huberts son's nomination, through thy condition of afs falra in tho Senato, Is hung up, . ——— PERSONALS. -Young Iadles who are to be Queens of tha Moy this sonson should begln sccuring thelr buftalo overcoats and gum-shoes now, , A Kapsns Judge has dealded that a ticket :to*admitone™ J8 good for, hushand and wife, QOn. this basls of rensoning child's tlcket wauld suflice for the average Sophoinoro class in college, k o . Visltor: “Iow long has your master been Jawayt” Irlsh footman: *Well, sor, cv he'd oum homo ylsterday, ho'd a bin gon a weake tu-morror; but ev ha duzn't return the dey ofther abure, ho'll & bin away a furtnight nist Thoraday1"—Funch, * A . “An oxchango ‘snys that of tho 600 young Iadlos attonding Vassar Collogo no two can agred a8 to what thoy would do in‘caso they saw a bear. We may be suro of ano thing, howover.—they ‘wouldn’t permit thomselves to bo hugsgod unless tho. bear brought goud roferonces.—Senalor A writer In ppletons’ Journal ocenpled soveral pages of that puhlication in an offurt to prove that there s no such thing ns womanly back Inte channets where tholr bolling pssions cun be gnoled and rondored harizlessy” Will tho death of Aloxandor 11 closs” tho ern of nssasination In tho Iouso of Romano? No fdoutit Alexandor will muke an honost effort to bring about publio tranquillity. Dutin tho ond perhaps be muy find that it will bo casler tor him toantiafy tho Nihilists, who are enthusl- nsts gud risk thoir lives for Russia's politioal re- form and llberty, than thoso who, by the loss of thalr sorf-property, woro soclally and mnte- rinlly rulned. Qho Northern States of -the Amcrlean Unlon have had somo snd experiences with the Bouthern ohivalry and-former slavo- ‘barons in this respeot. - but also In:cuitivating o -loyalty to such party. that would othorwlss seem to "bo ridiculous, 0 ——iee— THE TREASURY REFUNDING PROJECT The proposition the Secrotary of the Treas- ury intends to make to the holders of the 6 per cent honds which become redsemable at tho eption of the Government July 1 next, amouutingn round tigures to $200,000,000, 1s cither to pay them off or to oxtend thelr durntion at tho new rate of 8}¢ wer ‘cont, thereby saying 2)¢ per cent interest to the Government. LUhis scheme secus fo bo at once fair and practicablo, Stme of the legal halr-splitters at Wash- Ington nre mnklug the point thatsuch a con- tract will not be lnwful, beeanse there Is no express authoyization therofor in the statutes, Thig Is snply absurd, It the United Statas Government; In the absenco of Congress, has not the powor possoased by every Individual tomake n contract ontlrely.sntisfactory to the opposit party, whereby It can suve itself tha payment of 35 per cont Interest on an oxtonsion or rencwal of alonn which it Is otherwise propared to pay, then it mixht as well abandon all clalm to bélng a Govern- ment, and Congress should arrange for n ——— ‘Tt real casis belll betweon France and Tunis scems to"bo the’ following:- The Primo Minlstor of the lloy of Tunls, Thair-cd-Dinn Tasba, accepted in 1870 tho pesition of Grand Vizior, which wans tendered him by the Buitan of ‘Turkoy, Bofore louving for Canstantinoplo ho sold his Afrlean possossions for 50,000,000 francs to tho Soclété Mursolllaiso, Tho successor of tho Primo Minister should, In accordanco with ancient rulo aud usayo provatling In Tupis, have been nlso tho successor to tho' landed ‘posacs- 81003 of his predecessor in ofice. Tha Soclitd Murseillnise haviug purchasod in good faith, the Tioy was not unxious to interfora lo favor of his now " Minister, until ‘tho latter discovered tho oxistence of mn old Tunlsion - law: nccording 1o wbich tho. owner of any _ A ploce of land ndjacent to the land to bp verpetual sesslon, It s not proposed to | done down In North Caroling,? and 0xpoct ta maot thelr old anemy (querys Rus- | gotd has tho Arut. rlgiit of purchase, unti) ho ro- | Intultior. mm"b"'“m' Bhew lbls aopileines cxorcisc apy constraint in thismatter. Tho | that the ouly ~way to settle the | ®10F) 08I In tho feld, fuses tonceupt thoolfer,, If thootfér lanot mado | C0MeA hame about 13 w'elack ond tries L0 holders of thed per cent bowds ean elther nceept the new rato of Interest or taka their money, 'Tho'Trensury hus resources equal to the entlre sinount of 6 por cents without drawing on its redemptlon fund. 1t has nuthority to Ispue $104,000,000 of 4 por cents, whish It eun sell for about $118,000,000, and 1t ing u surplus rovenne of $90,000,000 for the ourrant fiscal yenr at theyory *least, Ioneo any proposition on the ‘part of the Treasury to redeem the U por eenta 18 not, tentative but relinble, and tha optlon les with the holders of such bonds to tnke their money urless thoy preferto jonve It with tho Goverpment atthe new rate pending an pgreoment pf Congress upon a refunding law, ‘Thy best: possible proof - that the Govern- mentis exercisiug no coorclon or fmproper ndvantage ln this nintter s to be found In the fuct (hat the proposition oviginated with tho banks and capltnlists who hold the 0 per centbonds, "Tho funda thus invested belong to banks, Insutanco compnnies, estates, and trusts, ‘und - would sepk yolnvestment in o snenk Intn bed. without haviag his breath smeil o will discovor tho fullauy of his thoory, A nawspaper in - Milwaukeo Inst Thursday conjained u very interosting nccount of Queen Lsthor's Journcy to Kiug Alasuopus. Dy ness woek we presume our estimible eontcgporat? will bave some facts rolnfive to Job' afd hisex citlog oxpor|ences with bolly, . In the atter of eyents that- ocourred two or threo murnnd yoars ngo Milwaukeo papors are bound tlot 19 Kot loft, i e Anng Dickinsan, who I8 now aliout 8 yeats old, has refused to pluy Claude Mehintte ut Pl dulphin, wearing tights to sult the character Tho manager, Btetson, 1s a cunning bird. 1 < thoueht, If e conld entrap Annu Juto minle fos tumo, sha would draw immensely, the genersh tonor of her srgument having boon in_ favor of woaring thd brecohos. It scoms that sho put 08 Clawde Melnolte's apparel, and boeainu sensitifd about it and objcoted to the diferont otressed who were 10 piny, on the ground that they weré all too tall to givo ber a manty and lofty rele VAnoy« § T “Nothing "'has happened antong nwyerd since o momber of that profession went 1¢ Chrlst with the loading quostion so lndicativeof iby tha soller to tho owndr of tho ndfacent land, nud tho scller disposes of tho land to any other parson, tho salo is null and vold, Tho owner of the udjucent prowmises can take possession by paying tho snme amount of money pald by tho first puychaser, Such an ‘“adjovont fellow", was found in the person of an English Jow, “who, undor tho protection of the Tunisian au- thoritics, claimed tho psivilege of this Nrst pight of purchnse. Tho Bocl6d Marseilluiso was ro- fuseid posacssion, and the rumpus was complote. Whother Englaid will protoot tho Jow In his right of firat purchuse la not cortain, but’ocor- tain It {8 that Tunls and Italy de, In tho oplo- lon'of the Borlin Frefe Prease, INsmarok -favors Italy's planas In referenco to Tunle, as he seems to favor everything whioh has a tendenoy 'to abridgo and curiall the dovelepment of Frengh power and intluence on the porthern const of Afrioa, e — Tae business of the manufacture of clg- arcts hes grown enormously (n tho past four yoars, 8ix years ago il tho clgarcts used in the -country wero inported. Now the produonon s aimast ontirely vomtinod to this couutry, and large amount of oapltal s lnvested in the husi neas. Tho following tableatiows tho {ncrease in debt question , was to repudinte it al- togethor, ‘Lhis, however, might be called the stump speoch : of n hented paril- san for political effeat, Tho document of 1870 wus not a stump apeech, 1t was hisof- flein! advico ns Governor (o tho only body of men whe eould oficlally perform the uct of repudiation, Thers s no record that the -bondholdors of North: Carplina ever hold meoting In any eapaclty, or ever took uny actlon in faver of emancipation or opposing it, Bowe df theso bondholders were Repube lleans, Bome of ‘them were Copperhieads and frionds of the North Carallna Rebels, Some of them wore Engllsh and souw of them werp Germans, .- They wore senftered everywhore—all over'the world, The Infer- enco that these widoly-seattored fndividuala uver took such action 1s ridieylous, inconso- quential, und falee, - It §s the flbmsjest reason that wna ever offered .by o State ofiiclal, or any. other ofiicial, for n dishondst netlon, ‘No one, not’ oven the miost ultras radieal Republican, -over advoented the de- Plon-rlon and His Partys The party of DBonapartists, which has canserd so much tronlite and misery in Franco and Enrone, 18 fast doolluing, Most of the old lenders have ‘grown stif and cullous in that porty's sorvice, and the. aftor-growth is not warth speaking of. Itouher romains In his lnssl- tudo, with his do-nothing polivy, dreatning over and over apaln - tho sweot dreams of tho things thut wero, Old'Cussognnu fs dend, and. youny Cungsngunac js without Influence. Te J8 Incom- mand on the vight of tha purty of o handtui of blowers with' atrorig Junks but, woak braine, whaso chlof busjnoss consistd 'in wearing violot button-bolu bouquetsand colobruting Napelcon- fo ‘mumorlal ‘days In Notre-Dame. Draggie "doolo pnd. ducls oro " thelr stack in frade. Worse even is it with tho Bonspartists’ loft wiog, All tho knowing ones, thelr wiscacres, and Pharlsees, sre prepiring 10 desert and leave the golden rosa of virtue to her fate. Thoy have woue through the'skinning proceas; and are now Ltepublicans, The Gaulofs is anxlous to begomo o fambetia paper, and in all representative Lodies shronghout tho country.the numbers of “ihe devoted " aro dwindling down mors and morp juto insignificance, In the Chumbor of p . w1t 30 gue soat Al thalr vital plety, as tho fuct that onc of thed ‘slmilar class of seaurities I the bondas shonld | structlon of thelr; proporty, the slaves, nor 3:{;“; .h:;r:yul.‘.’;: n‘:n the l::n::;u:-’:flllu ?::8 t!g:{-“x_:dumy dikng jha post "::f,',’ YOurY e, | namod Humilton Calo, af Now York, patl be pald, The holders recognize that 1t will | their deportation, No-one ever proposed to | looked upon us the most dupgerous enomies af | 18i8... $20,000 | for a single copy of tho Biblo, It was printed S be much bhetter for themy to tuke 8% per | malm, or erlpple, or, kill, or remave tha00,- | tho Republio; to-day thoy bardly descrvo (hay }% " 412,000 | old Gutenbarg, the chum ot Dr, Faust, whant :' cent intereat on bonds which they can - con- | 000 blacks of' North, Carollnn, The Intorcst | convmiseration which tho world fa willlue to bo- eabssone ., 18000 | 500 on the stuge overy nightbedeviled by Me! 1inuo to hold at par than tatake their monoy and jnvest in 4 per cent bonds nt 114, The machhfery of tho transactlon will be slwple, and Jnexpensive. It will only he pecessury ta send: the Lougs to Washington and haye them stayiped with the terma of the newoons tract. Thero will be no commissions tp pay, and the cost of tha matarial and labor fornow bonds will. be avolded, ‘Theye s no appres henslon apywheve that-any advantage wil} be taken by the Government of ‘any legnl technicality that * piay be raised against the transaction, The Amerlcan Government will never be a party to any scheme of repudiar ataw uvon nll decuying greatncss which slmply lives fn tho rominisoenpos of the past, Vho imain causa pf (his deeline and disintogra* tlon In Bonapartistio strenyth: i’ bpcause the party has not a, live und motlve I'retendor, Jurome Nupoloop, the present obief of the Napo~ legnjedynasty. ig smarr and shrowd, Tull of eaprit ang talent, bylmming avor with saroasm to- wards friond and fog, but—a Pretender ha le not. A Prolepder nust givo prout of his courage, his sqgaolty, hia- forealght, Ho must undorstand how to aurround klmsglf with all that nlmbus of romunce which |8 always moro or Joss attaghod to the' past, present, snd futurc of alj Pre- tenders. Don Cnrlos was g Pretender, bocause e purpled the war Inty Bpuln and the Hasqye on the debt wasborno, ke the interest on the debtof thu Northern States, upon the wroducts of lubor, and of theso products the whita landholders tonk- il but the mere sub- slatonce ot the laborers, ‘Flidt Inhor s athll theres Sinca the abolition of slavery the blucks have uot only remalned there, but they have Incresseq 75 per cent In numbers, ‘I'here are & half more biacks there pow than when the Emaucipation Iroclamation wag ssned, Thoey.work harder, they produce more, they huve increased the taxable prop- erty, and the yesourceg of the Blate have de- istopheles, and donply In love with Margue rite, - The tawyer bought the book In onler10 &ot tho original Goupel, and, if ho bad not s oured 1t, thero wua a booksollor Iylug buck Who had already bid nbout §7,600, »The Princess Polgoroukl was with he{ sister;the Priucess sfotchorkl, at the momen .of the asasination of the lusslan Ewper 8ho drovo rapidly to the Wintur-Painco {0 "‘ slelgh, and romalned in the Crar’s chamber uok his cldest son entered the room, whon sho (mie diately withdrow, Alexundor 1L, It Ja snld lfllf had aa futerviow with the Princess, wmochl'.' dren will be provided for, while gho whi bo ] Iowed 10 muin in-Ryusela. It 1a even adind! Tuv, Memphls (Tenn.) Appeal I8 very angry with the Demogratio members of the Leglaluture who voted ‘for the -bill to pay the dubt of the Biatg, “ Nothing so infamous,” 1§ says, Yas tho One-Jlundred-gnd-Three byl was -ever cansuwmated by & leglalative budy, Every TNemocrat who gave hia vote for it will have to answer beforo the peopla whom ke’ hag thus by trayed and sold ot~ . ¢ e e B o o ho frish and Boor disturbuncos ara provi usetul 111 ln‘deure- which few var:mll twpa yennv‘: Ao d bave thought possibl, n calling the ¢ the {l I ;:I?‘ll {1 é‘égu wglnl? "L-"‘npcl%puul’ é‘:pnharud:? fl: = paror ly intends to 88 voloped faster thay they did In the days of 18 Napoloo Prot liat tmind for anvorin uth (0 piate of fools | oA e Emparor generous \per 85 tlon upop any pretoxt whatever, " | oneretve seryitude, I la" easter for North E:?XL‘:Z'%.T.‘L:_ 10" Birasbune st Houtony o of men of difetent arluig, or towoaore or | [UEN ':f.'pf?»;i'{éfl;' A ceppous ot e ma® It g probable that the heldets of the great | Carolin to pay the Inlorest on hor debbnow | and gulored a¢ Ham, Buy his coysin Plon-Plon | eussiog o Mot question, spoken of 1ha curls | oFw ;

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