Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1881, Page 4

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K CHICAGO TRUIUNE has establishot branch oficos for the receipt of subscriptions and sdvertises ments aa follows: NEW YUIK-Ioom 2 Tribune Boilding. F.T. Mo PADNEY, Manager, GLASUOW, Scotland—Allan's Amarican Nows Aganoy, 81 ltonficld-st. LOND Eng.~American Exchango, 419 Strand, 1exny F. GiLLIg, Aont. WABHINGTON, D. C.—1819 ¥ stroot. et AdtobLytus s, Mooles's Thentre, Randolph streel, botweon Clark end La Balle. “Falrfaz.” MeVieker's Theatre, Madison _#ireor, tetwoen Stato and Doarborn. “Ona Hundred Wives.” n¥rry’s Theatre. Terrtomn strest, corner of Manros, Mtnstrsl an- tortalnment. Grand Oyern-Tlonse, Cark strool, opposit uow Court-House, “our Gobitns " Orgmnte Thontrs, i Flerv streot. be woen Lake and Uandolph, Vae rlety entortainment. Academy of Musta, Falated strect, near Mudison West 8lde. entertainment. White-Stocking Park. Lakg-Front, upposie Washiniton streot. Basa-ball t3:80p. m. Clevalunds vs, Chlcagos. Variety MONDAY, MAY 2, 1881, Pror. LEwis Swirr, Director of Jthe Rochester Astronomical Observatory, 18 sredited with the discovery of a new and brilliant couet, belng the seventh one found by the sauie gentlemal — *Tug strike iu the machine-shops of tho Alwn & Chicago Rallrond at Bloomington Is ended, the Company having conceded the advancs demanded by the strikers. Work Wil be resumed this morning. .TuE east and west bound stage-conches wera robbed near Sabinal, Tex., Saturday night by notorious highwaymen, The talle pouches wers cut open and all registered Ietters and paeknges carried off. Work wjll be commenced all along the line of the New York, Chicago & St. Louls Railrond this week., A'large force of men will be put on every section and the work prosecuted vigorously to complotion, Tae tug Anna P, Dorr succeeded In reach- ing Buffalo yesterduy from Erle. This isthe first arrival of the seuson at that port. A westerly wind has cleared the bay at Mnr- quette of lce. Theolee has nlso moved out of Egg Harbor, Greerr Bay, carrying the schponer Elida with 3 — Apvices from Constantlnople indleate that Dervisch Pasha Is making considerable progress towards suppressing the Albnnlan rebellion, 110t 80 much by military operations ns by concillating the chlefs. *At the same . tlme it Is to be noted that two of the princi- " . Hemakes the requost that he *may not rest the Lower Misslavippl In o few days from pal Albanlan strongholds hold out. ‘Tar: relatives of Eben Wright, a Boston milllonaire, propose to-contest the willof the decessed, un the ground that he was not of sound mind at the tine he made it. The ald gentleman left the bulk of his fortune to the wife of Gen, Winttler, cutting off his rel- atives with, bultry legacies. The contest Is likely to prove very profitpble—to the law- yers, Tue antlJewlsh fecling has manifested itseit at Elizabethgrad, Russia, whero a mob attacked the houses of the Jowish in- habitants, plllaged .them, and maltreated the Inmates, ‘were wounded. 'The occaslon of the attack was the Jewlsh celebration of the Passover, which In some way gave olfense to the in- ‘habltanta of Elizabethgrad, who nre rather nowgfl for thelr bigotry and superstition. GEN, Jonx S, PresroN, n prominent clij- zen of South Corolinn, wnd Chief of tho Rwebel Conscrivtlon Burean durlng the War of the Rebellon, & man of varied aceom- plishmeunts, dled at his home in Columbia Yesterdny of “kldney disense afteran Jlluesy of two weeks, lio was, In his T2 year Tho Rev, Edmund B, Tuftly, well known in this city, died in Now York Frivoy, Ho ‘was In former years Raotor of St. Aus arlus® Chureh, aud also Chaplalu ot Camp Douglas duaving the War, - ¥ P — WuAT 1s known as speculutive or colipor- ative liu-lnsurance hus proven so Injurions In Peunsylvanin that the people and press of that State seem to have become thoroughly elarmed. A dispateh from o Philudolphin correspondent, published “‘this morning, yu- fers ton few ot the troubles and erlines that .have arisen from permitting this sort of su- called Insurance to bo conducted’without proper legnl safeguards and State super vislon, ¥ e 3Mn. 8. W, Donsky, whose name hns been moreor fesa proainently connected with the stur-royte business, weltes a Jettor to Post- mnstor-General Jamus raquesting an fnvestls gution futo all contracts In ks Departmont In which his nume figures In any capaclty, under Infurions and unjuat lwpitations, nor be unuecessarily dowsined fruwm other bust ness” to defend his **repuiation against busy and uifounded assavits,” Ay, Dorsey :Ivm probably recelve satlsfactlon In dne me. ‘Tur Misalssippl Riverut New Orleans is high, but it will shortly be bigher, Thers Is unawlul tlood of water rolilug dowp vast St Louis that will be testing tho levees along Wow. Before 1t las subslded u goud many prople will huve becume bellevers In the eflicacy of Capt, Cowdon's outlet plan who liave seoffud at It herstwfore. 1 an apening aunle wide had been wude into Laka Borgue, 8 few wiles below New Orleans, there would bu o danger trow the snonmuus flond now puuring down the valley, os that outlst would drpw ot all the surplus water aud keep the swollen tlver from overflowing the levees, That simple lmyravement must sooner or Interbeadopted, but probably will notbeuntit New Orleans s half-drowned and ull lower Lunislana’ submerged, which would be the case how IF tho Onioand Red Rivers shonld shiow a riso and ndd thelr contributions to those of the Mlssourl and Misslssippls but thoy aro fortunntely low at thia time, [ sy alivety the Importance of the Chinese trontles, recently negatfated, and are very deslrous that they be confitmenl. Lungue ot 8an Franciseo, and the Republic an State Centrul Comiulitee of Californin, have telegraphed Senator Miller au fndorse- mont of his course In urging action on thesa treatfes, and a grent mnas-mceting will be held to-morrow evening in San Frauclsco to give forciblo expression to the feullugs of tho people of that city on the subject, [ e way in Tunls sofar, The Kroumlrs and kin- dred tribes Nave been utterly defented, and with great José In all engagements which have tnken place, * Yet, and notwithstanding the professionfof friondship by the Boy, thore 1s a possibility that the French- will yat en- counter flerce if not formldable opposition, The principal Manammedan Colleginte In- stitute In the country urkes a holy war ngninst France, and hns already unfurled .the banner of the Prophets It anly needsan Ab-tel-Kader to guitle and direot this spirit agalnst the Freuch to eausg thom Infinit trouble aud great luss in men and naterial, seekers has sut In earlier than nsual, and in greater volume, ‘The erowds of Amoriesus going to Europo to spend roney ke¢pup duo proportion to the vther crowds coming frow Europs to Americn to- make money, Six stpriers left New York Saturday, taking with them 850 cabin-passengers, They weres Tho Qermanie, of the White Star Line; the Donau, of the North Gertan Lioyd; the Egypt, of the Nationat; the Clinbrin, of -the Imperial German Mail; and the Cirenssinand Victorla, of the Anchor Line, The rush for Europe hios now nssumed large proportions, .| and nearly nll the berths of the outgoing stewmnships for weeka to come have been taken. Nearly 200 passengers lefc In the cabin of tho Germanic. tlnues, the birds of passage will have to take berths in the steerage and on cattle-ships, munity was yesterday deprived by death of onoof its most netive, energetic, enterpris- ing, and public-splrited citizons, Col. James H, Bowen, who died from the resultsof n fallat Irondnle, near South Chicago, yester- tay, was one of our clty’s pionesrs; & man of Inrge abilities, broad and tndomilable pluck and energy. done much In the conrse of his busy life to endenr himself to his fellow-citizens, and Chleago has owed not a little of its nrogress to Nis enterprise, keen foresight, aud almost unlimited capacity for hard and useful work, ‘Ihe reglon in which he was cut off so un- thuely was only a few years ago a howling wilderness, o mere mOrnss, It a which bids falr to realize his early and san- Rulne hopes, ‘and lost it. ‘The financial panic of 187 dealt him a severe blow, deprived him of every- thing but his Indomltable enerzy and his faith In Though advanced In years, bo did not break before the storm. He set hlwself to benefactors. and South Chleago of -ils country have parmitted themselves, a3 & gen- eral rule, to be deluded by the pretense that sisted all along that Conkling was behind the cuirtain pulling the strings and manipulating deadlock, and the situation has been placed claims, or the clection of Senute oflicers, or. movement 1t the South, or any other of the tion of Robertson, and to advise him to with- 4 iat gentlemnn’s nawme in obedience to One-vew-was killed and severnl draw thult o Trr people of the Pucific Slupe seen to ba The Republiean “Tatre Fronch seent to have 1t nil thelr own Tne spring hoglra to Europo of plensure- If tha rush con- SuppENLY and without warning this com- unwearying industry, views, and He had comprehunsive He made thriving manufacturing town Col. Bowen . made o fortune the future of South Chicago. the task of repalring his shattered fortunes, and seamed to ba on the high rond to success when death stepped In.to bar his progress, nud deprived Chicago of one of Its best prophetie founder, —— . THE BENATORIAL CORSPIRAOY. While the newspapers throughout the the Senntorial deadlock was maintalned for the purpose of asserting the right of the *“constitutional majority,” and also to vro- mote the Inclionto and uncertain Liberal party of the South by the election of Riddle- betger, Mahong’s man, TRE TRIDUNE hins In- the puppets for hils own purpose. And now that there are slzns of & dlssolution of the under the ‘control of n *“Committce of Safety,” It furns out that Tur TRIBUNE'S theory s entirely correct. The Caucus Com- mittes does not trouble Itself with Malione's the sltuation In Virgivla, or theanti-Bourbon vretended reasons for neglecting tho public Dbusiness up to this thue, but It proceeds to cansult with the President about the nominn- Mr. Conkling's dictatlon, Thus' tho, real struggle Is revenled to the public at last, The Senute hus'been trithng with the pub- lic ever slnes Judgo Robertson was nomi- nated, Dentograts and Republicans, ostensts bly arrayed ngoins euch othar in flerce party antagonlse, have combined to divert publlc nttention from the real point in issue, Mean- while, Mr, Coukling has had time to come plete his arrungements for estublishing the so-cnlled * courtesy of the Senate,” whereby the Prosident’s constitutional prerogative of apuointiment is to'be suntched from him und exercised alternately by the Senators of the varlgus States where appolntments are to bo mate, There I8 to be g Senatorial syndivate to control the disposition of nll the Execu- tivo pntronnge, and Coukling s its chief, Therv Is u combination of * Bosses,” with Conkhing a¢ thelr head, to dictats to the President whom he shall ‘nppoint and whow he may not appolnt. ‘Ulie conspiracy Is com- posed of Democrats as well as Hepublicans, nnd hence involves a botrayal of the Admlu. Istration_and treason to the Republican party, Now that Mr Conkling buileves ha has urganized this conspiracy so- firmly that there I8 no danger of its Lresking, he is willing that exeentlvo. sessions shail be ro- sumed, and the * Comlttos uf Bafety ™ will 80 prociatus this week, . ' When this Caucus Committee called on tho, President its most Jmportant I not its onjy connmunication was to the sffect that Senator Conkling carad nothing for a continuance of* the deadlock on hls own account, but had promoted it, so far as the New York Collvot- orship was concerned, 1 deference to the wishes of his Now York constituents, who belleved delay would resuit In -the withe drawal of ‘Judge Robertson's nuwination, which they earnvatly deslred in the Intyrests of party harwony,” This was o frank con- fesslon that the duadlock had been maly. tained solely for the purposs ot couvrsing tha Prealdent to surrender fo SBenator Conkliug, Butstill it did not tell the whole story, 1t did not veveal that Conkhng eud - lis agents have boen active, pending this offust to bulldozo the Presldent, In waking such bargalne and trades @y are expectud to defeat Robertsen's nowle nation In casy the Presidont rofuses to yield, and also to secure the rejuctlon of any otugr nojulnations that have ulready besn made or shall be made In the future which way meet with the oppositionof the twe Sen- ators In the State wherethe oftices ure located. ‘he Seuste vropuses. in fact. to establish an active In denounciug what they ultesed to bo o *corrupt bargain? Letween Mahone and tho Revubllean Senators, But the Senatorial bargain® which 1s . now revealed Is vastly more corrupt and more dangerous than the imaginary one which aroused so wmueh In- dignation un the Demacratic side, an opportunity for the Democratic Souators toshow sows renl patrlotism, but we fear they wiil not unprove (t. We do not belleve that any philipples will be hurled agninst Conlklinglsm, Bossism, and Senatorlal con- spiraey from the Demoeratie side. The Dewe ocratie orators will be sllent on this subject, and guletly avail themselves of the fruit of tho conspiracy whilo leaving tho responsl- bitity therofor upon the Rapuolicans. and determination ho can swmmon to com- bat the Senstorial combination agatnse i, Ile should be sustulned and encouraged, Towever; by the assurance that he will have the Amerlean people on his side in his strugxle agninst the Bosses, ‘He should not becontent to remain oR thoe defensive, but should ussume the agrressive at tho earliest practienl moment, Just as socon ns he shall be convinced that the Senute s loagued agalnst him to refect all nominntions save those which have been imposed upon him by pravious Senatorial notiry that body that he hns no further com- munications to make to It, nid thus deprive it of any excuse for_remnining (n sesston Once rid of the Senate, he should appoint ¢ompetent und brave men to office In all purts of the country who will stand by thelr rights, by tholr party, and by thelr Govern- ment. ‘Tnls Is o struggle which involves the independence and efliciency of bis entire Adwministration, und beyond that the Integrity of the Government as defined by, the Constls, tutlod, If e shall sdopt this polley tho Senutors will nscertain before the regular opposed to Bosses and conspiracy, and- they will abate thelr present, zeal In favor of the Garfleld to deal with. from Washington announeed that Postiuns- ter-Ueneral James would write a letter to the President declaring that nothing asninsg. same disputches now stato that Mr, Dorgey. at the Post-Olfice Departmunt that any such of this chinracter, 1f the testlmony of Reed- el is false, why does not Mr. Dursey say so flatly, aver his own slgnature ? Giving no- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MDAV, ATAV e —— - FWPE extraconstilu:lonal Government under which the appointing power shall ba lodged in two Senators at a tine, rotating the privilege, and the Presicdunt shall by merely the ngent for sending such nominations to the Senate. this way the form of the Constitutlon wilt Lo obseryud, but it spirit and Intontion will be completely nultided, In “[Byss” Conkling has thus organized a conpliracy against his party and his country. ‘The result will by to strengthen Instead of wonkening Bourbonism In the Sulld South; for, under tho *‘courtesy uf the Sennte,” tho two Bourbon Senators fromenach of the South- en Stutes will have the manipuintion of the ‘(lovernment patronage. Thut the conspiracy is nimed also at the Government self it Involves n disturbanca of the cone stitutionnl the Qovernmuent through the usurvation of the Executive prorognlive of appointe ment, and by reposing ln two Sonntors the discretion ennstitutionally given the Prest- dent with the advics and consent of the en- tire Senate. Coukling is a man who cares nelthor for party nor for country, butis willing to break down the lnws and override the princlplos of Guvermmnont n order to hwmor his own vanity and further his own ambitlon. It- Is ovident from the fact that vowers as distributed by Some of the Democrats hnve been very Terels Urestlent Garlleld will need all the courage dictation, he should sessfon of Congress that the people nre “courtesy of the Semnte,”” If they do not, they wiil have the people as well a3 Presldent THE #T AR-ROUTE SHAMR. Saturdny’s Assoctuted Press disputehes S. W. Dorsey had been discovered, The wnas hlmself the authority for the excul- patory telegram, and further that 1t is denled prowlse was wmade, or that any such letter was proposedto be wiitten, Mr. Dorsey will not Improve his cuse by Inspirlug dispatches tice to the country over the wires that he is avout to procure o certificate of exemption from tha Postmaster-Genern! dues not help Mr. Dorsey. T'he certificate itself would not’ help him mueb, while the denial that any such certitiente was promised makes his caso several degrees worse, It Is plain that no such certificato wiil be given, butif it could ba procured it would by no means dis- poso of the case wado by the testimony of Revdoll. Such a cortificate would con- voy the lwpression of an effort on the part of Mr, James to bolster up Mr. Dorsey; that's all. Reedell swore lust June *that Mr. 8. W. Dorsuy was the real concractor on thirty odd *star” routes; that his close connection with that busluess extonded back over.many years; aud that at ong thnoe he controtled 158 ** star?’ routes, It will be re- membered, by thoso who wateh the courso of poliileal events with care, that among other ritmors current ufter the Presidential elg¢- tion was oune to tho effect that Mr, Dorsey deslred to secure the appolntinent to the po- sltlon of Second-Assistant Postastér-Gen- oral of Clint Wheeler, of New York, Tha publie wondered why Mr, Dorsey did not seek to Influence a higher appointment, e haul been o very promtunent figurs i the eam- pulgn, quite overskndowing Gov. Jewall, nud nobody would huve been sirprised at the statement that he wished to name half the Cabtnet, for he nevor had auy great reputa- tlon for modesty, It our recoflection serves, Mr, Dorsey nursed this popular view of hig high alms, declaring that he cared nothing for Clint Wheelor or the Second-Assistant Postmustor-Generalship, I tha Rubdoll tes- thmony could havessen the llght they It would huve awmpensd thoardor of the distihgulshed wentlvmen who dined with Mr, Dorsey wul wado apaeches In lus honor, not’ merely Intks muting but detinring In good, plain Anglo- Saxon that he (Donsey) had earrled theeoun- tryl- Doubtless Mr, Dorsey wus fluttered hy theso tine phrases, but we ure sure now thut tho undercurvont of thought ln his uind constantly dritted to the star routes, his friond Cling Wheelor, and the Second-As. slstant (contract departmunt) ostivusters Qeperalship, It mpy bo ussumed as a probae bla.fact thut nll the fine figures of spuech of ull the orators on that hilurlous occasion ye- sojved themsolves luto one In tho mind ot v, Durssy—that of & stnc-route contract In the-sctuul process of belug **expedited,” Ench new chapter In the history of the stap route ocuntract inlquity seoms to " bp more infamous than the last, That of Walsl,~ of Arizons, eclivses anything previously aualyzed, Wnlsh had s con- tract for the yonts from Preseott to Santa FA at $18,000 per snuum, 1t was ‘‘ox- prdited * enorupsly, and the advance was made sofely ou . the sworn statement of Walsh, 'Inis fact came out In the oxaming. tlon of Gen, Brady,’ And this further faot wus ulso dyveloped In the testluiony ol Brady himself—nnnely: That he (Brady) kuew, Walahi in Nuw Orieans, uud that ho procured ks indictment for trauds vn the revenue ps & whisky dbstiller for refuzing to produce hls books whop reguired to do 8o aa provided by law. ‘There could scarcely ‘be strouger cireumstantial evidence of corrupt collusion than this; thot is ta say, the rdwisslon of the contract-letting oflicer that he advanced the price of & cortain serviee enornausly over the price pald to'the previous coutractor for exactly tho same service; and that he made ) -y 1RQT _TRN PAGTS, sueh advanco on the fink\, unaupported state- | & nocossity for bread, nnd at whatever wages ment of tho party in intorvst; snd that ho | they ean met, The oft-repeated story will knew the contractpr had already heen | follow, Tho- genoral advance fn wages millty of fraud upon the Uovern- | will nocrssitate a reduction of employ- ment revonue, 'since ho had been |'ment; the lucrense in the cost of Indieted for such fraud on his | living will leavo the inereased wages less (Brady's) testimony! ‘The prestimption of | remunerative than ULoforo; foreign goads tfrand 1les against every “oxpedited”, con- | will pour in from forelgn workshops, aud tract In the wholo star-ronte service, Itisin [ Amerioan goods will conse to be exported, order for the contractors In that sarviee, If | ‘Tho boom will b sueceedud by a decline. A .there are any honest men nmong them, to | decling in employment, o great decline In shosw that the .money they recelved for “ox- | wages, and the seeming prosperity of labor pedition?” was honestly carned und honestly | will close with a prosteatfon that will eon- due. The onns ofrpraof is on the contract- | tinue untll prices go bnok to their natural ors, for tho mass of detaited evidenciis a0 | condition, great ns to constitute n badge of fraud upon Now we are In n senson of strikes, which tho whole business, Mr. 8. W. Dorsoy has | aro avoldud by submigsion; but sixty days not denied his connection with the star-routs | heneo wnges will have less piirchasing power service, 1o hins daused it to be publishod | than now, and tion will follow strikes which that the Postmnstor-Genoral wonld oxoner- | will bi niet by suspenslons of employment, ato him. This’ will notdo. It 18 notin the | lockouts, discharze’ of workmen, nid n power of that officer to exonerats hiin, aven | period ‘of tine and production lost. In this 1t he should make the attempt, and he de- | Atlul, spasmaodic, thoughtless tampering with clares that ho will ‘ot make the attempt. | prices thera Is nn hmmensity of ovil, The Ilenco the testimony of Reedell stonds un- | thoughttal man wilt soarch them [n valu for contradicted and unexplalued, and it covers | any prospoctive abundnnee they offer to any Gon, Brady with. shame ‘und involves Mr, | one.’ High prices and reduced production Dorsey and tho other real contractors, | aro the opposit of prosperity, snd any and whether known by name or not, n the dis- | il ciforts to benént munkind otherwlss than grace which attachiéd to robbery of tho reve- | by Increasing the naterinl abundance which: nue. Gen. Brady’s letter to the New York | ean be obtained for labor mubt always prove Tribuncis a mass of wlittering genoralitics | abortiva and disnstrouy, ) . and shadowy nbstrqntlnlla. It 1s no answer e ——— to the case made ugninst the writer, [mpu- dence no longer avails. The public’is ready to render o vordict, and, asthe cnse stands, the defense does not even offer to put In a particluof ovidence. » ] EFFEOT OF 1HE RISE IN WAGES AND PRICES, ‘Tho general advance In wages now de- manded 1 all parts of the country shoutd not bo aeeepted ns an, unmixed cvidence of the prosperity it Indieates, because it lncks thnat pormansney which alone nssures roal pros- perity.’ ‘That communlty enjoys the highest degree of progperity whose lavor places within tho reach of the greatest number of persons the vossession of the grentest mmount of the commodities consributing, to the wants and cofnforts of the human family, This ) degree of prosperlty Is not to be mens- | 'The treatles under theso progeedings stato ured by rates of wages, beeauso wages nre | that tho lands are conveyed to the United but tha mere agonts for which othor things | States in complinnee with o dusire to lucate are exchanged,. Tho nearer tho whole popu- | other Indltny unid freedmen thereon. Slnee Intion can come to the enjoyment of the | that time the Government hus settled rreatest abundanes of the world’s goods, the | ** other Indinns” upon about 1,500,000 acres, nenrer they are to the greatest prospority, but no fmednwnd hiave been atlowed to enter ‘Phe rise In wagles Is not of ftselt evidence | vbon the remnindor of thu traét, amounting of on Inerenss of prosperity; thus, when | 10 tnore than 8,600,000 nores, whlch Ay tying wages ndvance 10 per cent and tho costof | lle because the Iudians in the Terrltory {iving ndvanees 20 per cont (ns the middje | BAVE no use for them, amd there Is no dispo- wen mark up thelr goods), the menns of pur- | Siton on the part of the dovernmont to chnsing are serlbusly reduced. During {he bring in Aribes from - othier Terxitories. The lnstsixty days the domand for Inerensed | Tribuns very pertinentlynsks: . THE RIGHTS OF FREFDMEN IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY. Some new and very Interesting llght ling been thrown upon the Oklahoun question, to which reference has aiready been made In these columns In the letter of J, Milton Tur- _nerd by n communieation from AMr. Boudinot to the New York Tribune. Alr. Boudinet speaks wilh authority, belng an Indian “him- self, for many years the Cherokee Agent at Washington, and thoroughly posted in the trentles by which the tribes hold thelr resar-! vatlons In the Indinn Terrltory, and tholr legnl status, The pith of hisstatement Is that in 1300 the Government bought of the Crecks the western half o their reservation, contalning 8,250,500 acres, witd from the Semi- noles thelr ontire reservation, amounting to 2,160,080 acres, It all 56,410,040 acres, for which the Government pald 81,830,730, wages hns been general. In mnny emplay- | g2Menuwhile, vhut s tho Guvoenmont goiug, to ments there.was undoubtedly adisproportion | pralrie-doxs and bulfulues to pusicss them in of the wages paid to Uioso dupandent on | PSYRSIRLY, bt s, thos o e s to b s thelr dally earniugs, and to the extent that this | fly, this regiun would suppurt 48,04 fanilles, Insutlcloncy us been correetd nu moro | BAKINE A SEETIEAS sopibcgn, Iclydhig than justice has bean d‘ol:;e. : While \vtnzfisginru iy tho mr:ukg'”"‘,g ','fi.‘,"{.,,‘,'}"fi“?u’fl;:"?fieg largely to be mensured by the cost ot living, roudmuen luve spoc h 4 it must nlso and always be remembered that },‘:,'.'{‘c?mlé{\,n"n"fi“?y‘ulh'h}g\“? lfln‘l{' h:n‘é:ufffl.“r the great factor lir naking v the codt of liv- vgmg‘ga\'g‘hml'll‘!:m“ 1 the vy, fifm";:‘f“.'.‘f\{?fl ing Is this itew of wages. Wherever there | {hoy wars omanoipated. ' fvory benovolot pore 18 o general advanco In the cost of labor, | svn will lio glud it it shull turn out t{ml lhu;'u ] which is proporly the cost of productlon, the | 91, little wirln of sbuntey twr uh i o Wust costjof Hving necessarily advanees 1o full | = gg treaty under which thesa conveyances vroportion. In polntof fact, therefore, the | wore made Is certalnly specific enough to purchnaing power of wages, aftor 0 general | wive the treedinen who may wish to go thete and substantinl Increasc, * falls to keap | yvory mornl and legal right to do so. 1t on an’ equality with the incrensedcost of | gtipulates thiat Lhey arve purchnsed for the living resulting from' that advance. ILls, | Jucation of *other Indlaus and frecdmen,” moreover, attunded with serious drawbneka. | 1t cannot ba o natter of any.doubt whatn Any Increase In the cost of productlon isat- | frecdman is, then why not follow tho vlain tended with a redubtion In the demand | yionuing and spirit of the truaty provision, for consumntion on'the part of the great |"especlally when the Governwent hos abane ngricultural closs,’ mid consequently ‘o' ré-'| doned the- policy of bringlng other Iudiuns .duc‘tliun' in z:; aniount of labor ewnployed to'| tuto the Territory ? The lund lies there idle, broduce gouds.. b 08 y .| no oue makes any claln upon ity and .its use Tt aliould be borne . in mind that the tiilers | 1s ‘spccllicully sot forth. -As ftho" Tribune of the soil constitute one-half of tha Amerl- { shows, It would give hiomes to nt leagt 43,000, can peaple. The amount ot domestic mant- | families of frosdmen, who now. can. hardly factures and tmported gouds they cau Luy is ] bo sald to haveuny rights at all, - The frued- determined by the rost. They get o certnin | wen have svery argument, moral, senthnent- amount for thelr produects, whosa price is | nl, and legal, on tholr sldy, und If they are fixed by the foreign-mnrket quotations, | kept outof the Territory, it ‘can only be by When merhanics and laborers In the citfes | violatlon of the treaty and the inost wanton are foreing up wages' by strikes the fanmers | lujustice, 1t ought to bu glvon up, and are unable to work up the prico of crops, | given up at once. I1f It isnot intended that Ilence, 08 fast a8 town-made * gonds ond | freedmen shail colonize there, theu why wares aro forced up In price by strikes the | were they provided for In the treaty ? Y power of tha farmors to purchase those Smemsommmam—— gunda falls oft in tho samo propottion, for f ,:1,','{" 5}::}-301;11)}?:0‘1 :.‘l‘f’fi'fl'f:&.':e"unfl Vi vay Con Ly, Who lensud 1ho eloys ) :'::feh“)fi‘:od;:‘::r l.'l::;m::n:l‘; ‘:‘!’1?;‘0:: ll‘gg wuye in New York Clty, bave nut succoeded In B getting tho ity authoritles to cut dowii tholr farmers can purchase. Therefora the town- | tuxes on the ground that thele enrnings uro not strikers ara cutting off thelr market for thelr | suitlelont to pay tho prosent taxes and continup, mnnufactures by aviificlally enhancing the | the payment of tho present rats of dividonds cost of producing them. But men do not '.ll':ml ulxydnulwur‘xll:::.n r'?u::fflim:ugfififid.". ;:. usually stop to reason on consequences, | th8impudontreq % Il Thelr rulo1s to grasp at the dlne near tholr | sag Saea S s sy s by the. Gone: noses nlthongh they may lose & dollar at | misslunces of ‘Tuxed of their propurty atier do- thelr arms® length. .( duating the tax ugon tho roul-estute, Nourur hus B! b sugguated 58 L0 Lo pringiples upan which 1t I possible, thien, that tha cost of llving | theso tusus Lnve beon nssuased, uxcopt that it 13 and_the cost of praduction may be 8o nd- :'sna::fl:ulg:,flul{':5&2&&’:&%“&0%' {.‘:“.f,“},‘}}'",‘.:"“‘: vaneed by a general riso of wages that the | uwmount. The Munhuftun Compuny hus, Bow= may ba less [thun 16 was®heforo tho rlse, | Jtatiway Company 10 per cent por annun divie and tist the amount of labor omployed tay ““'o';."h“:;:,“lzf,‘ Jortlon g:y‘,"{:,‘l‘;““;"“"'l‘&{:.'i 3“!:;:;} be reduced ay a cobisequence. This is just | pecrued from thnn to dme, would have wiped what i now hapoeni. A g In viewing this matter ns an avidence of dnglenlclli -ulnmu}l n:-: l‘:ln\'u. fl“flx«%fl’.”»”hn" l‘lld :‘;:’::l‘:“:;[‘g I:fi:@ ‘;fi:':;“:;a“‘:zlm:;?‘:l%’l;fi e zb;&:fi:-‘:;gpufl 7 A1 (£ oho3 Fopesenls ) o by Its stocks, wud the Tux Commissloners muy > nvo boun deceived thervby in making now, an aversge of 3,000 workmeu landing on | b vulustion . of the A P nur uhln!ren every dav; that, aljowing that.| the ‘puurpu&lu“' of taxation; 1 ml'"-‘ ; onehalf of these seek. homes: fn | Tux ~Commlasooors =~ wore atRes ssuming ot the dividends were uel 0 tho country, thore ore at lunst 1,000 | SATGPUHS ot oarninigs wid Jerororo o edror, if any bus boon wady, (o the valiutions of the capitil stock, is one for which tho aiicers of the woinpanies, and nut the ‘Uux-Cowl rospundibie, Wo Kuow of tn r exceprion uhould be made in Luyos your core porations, of why tue public buniuns which wader uniform laws tull upon you spould be phiced upan othurs, - Win rygurd to tho ngpnmu: Lprishlp ypon the corporations of the existing aliuntion, which 1480 '""""3’ pu-lwu npon our uttenton n the o nununication, It may not bo out of pluss to siiggest Lt lmhnnteuwm wude by Ly snows that with 8 amal) reducdon of texu will come through reducod vyluntiony, tho Cor- oraLius will b eurl‘luu tho Juturest upon tholy ndad douts uid their txis, Woir bundod debts buaue In wmount subsiuntially ns growt us tho wonay eit ol tho provertied, T upipours by {tean obtaln ¥ ‘The tide of hmmigratlon now | the Loglalutive ropurt of tho Buitroud Conmite P hettd ¥ 4 (o of ‘!’hu Auw“lm'lu:tdul?ll 3. and 18, wWo e ponring into the country is nut limited to yn- | & ) b 1 b, skitled tabprs It lucludes mechanlcs of every o?r:t::" u&;:'f»’fa'n';m Ity cononded by phe oleary branch of trado und of overy Industry, These men gro as our doura; they, are askiug for % o] % columns of the Now York Sun frum Wushington work, and asking mr wuork that they way suirront histargs huye broud, k W Yat know,” sald be [the # be” 18 thé Informs The Inevitable consequence of every geus, | snt a‘r’mu":u':;n-wnmfinl:. :nd?zr uouu'bl.nu'mn crpl udvance In wagus 18 to so fucrense the | it e smituculons inuss of vaiuablo ttorimu: men dally throwp Into the cltles and towns secking employments These men coms horé with linited means: they must find work or perish, and that they will find work at the bust wages they can. obtninis & practieal s essity, They haye to support themselyes and fumities, and 80,000 of thesy luborseekors are addud to ourelty populution every month, whounre thus becomnk competitors with the prosent population. low loug can the riso In wages continne jiv the presence of this stream of counipotitive labor, which soon must accopt employment at whatover wuges e ‘Tiis s the sortof stuft poured Into the onl, it Gral il codt of nll Amerlegn um)mraom]n{s that the yusto -mtgm;lnld “wh:'lfv‘: 'flfl:m?‘ m“‘..‘.’.'.\':.'?.'i‘ country l8 fldoded:iat anee with forelgn e MALUEQ LM o ave thy fuotlices fur lu- Romlls. m’flw tlum.linl‘l balng roducvu;‘:I\d the %"fi’u: %Eu;fi%?’ufi;‘:]l?é‘u':fl %fififi%'fiu"fi"fl supnly bolng far ' excess, proditetion must :nl“ 2 ) 4"‘ luu mvimu volumae {u ey cenye, ‘n:lnd ux; xmn'::l\wn hnmlumfitlule sold nt é‘.::r)ng:kgfi;a‘:évgfig{% rn;'.‘&?_&'.‘. ;:{EL'"}".?.‘;; beco A [ Vo Adncrilios, Thatlas stoey. tha %9 ocean as 4o could. 'This,’™ noumfi?fi m’ hlnfl‘n": fawillr by ta frequont repotltion. Tt L | yriond, ™ is mbout ‘tho 'worst thus Ouilipid bag 1ot been more thit'y year sincs It was most 'zjn'a'wil ué:l{-‘::..:‘ufi.lw:m Tog 4t ua strouk uf i o seers v i s o | S 1 G marieh, gl i - 8, Budes UL 0 ertivonse o’ price o (n wagens a | 1, o il i 5% 1, Bt ok came the Inflow of. forelgn goodss thon the | spothor luum,', » And O Sty 5 stoppago of Ambrican production, the | ¥ whut 18 1t SThe rumoval of = Wudveu: disobarko of Iubor! smd the .resuction of | ¥ MeBraRk M Akied WY GLE ahor. man,” suld hy, *Sberman nover furguve Grunt for what ho suld about his * History of the Wur," and bue over sinoe Inied to got even wilh bhim, Boermun, you know,” coatinued he, *ls one of the mun who keep sotting naddor sod madier, - espeoially when Bis unger Is scusoned, us in tulg i 1) , 11 alo lnatnuce, with envy. (rapt ull thu whiie bad doigRs shtiae getted dsuid ¥ et KLU b auy g Bard (hlnys, which bave rop :-'% 4 Live for an advgueo in priceg from 20 to | fEbS! Iy 3 Fyihy 25 por cour. i iso 6 domindod 1y tie | Dis ot femat which Ddcat 1 Wit b Bt faco of the fast LakRotween July §, 1883, nd | 11 b0 way & personal ulfonsv. un injury (o July 1, 1881, uo les.than 100,000 able-bodied | *ye pydogu had fagilitics In London for Antab workwen: bave cows:luto the country mnd | g te * Litv of Grant,” bo should uave tukea are now and will be seeking ewployment as J advuntage of thain loug ogo, Jiu bas duwdled wages, ‘Uho boows had boen calamltous, In stead of buing bensfigla). Wuskes had ve- turned to their ordinary level, and Industry ayd production. ,\I'Rm Fesumod, - and uow e ———————————————e e, 5 — avor the sogond volumo until it bogins to be = doubtful whetbier hie intands to Aintsh it. ladeau -has been holding one of tho best offices In the RIft of tho Governmont, under the protonse that heé wns writing the “Lifo of Grant," for ‘twolve yoars, (fesnoutd bring tut his baok or close hls shop. THo wrote tho first velumo It 1807 In fow months, ————— . Ratto of Volen to Populstion, The Clnclnuntl Commercidl lus published nn interosting table suowing the populutiun ng nscertained - by tho census of 188J, the total voto at tho Prostdential olouifon of 1880, and tho titinof vote to ponulntion In tho &iXLy largost citles of the Unlon, Indianapolls casts tho largost proportlonat vato, | to'each 8.83 of pop- ulation, nud the stalicht Is cast by Pravidenco, It L, bolng unly 1 to ouch 10,00 of pupulution. The large vote of Indunapolls mny ba: nos counted for by tho fntonso bitterioss of the strugglo in that Stato, resulting (n somo’ col- anization na both sides.. In Indinun allens votod after u ‘six nonths' rosidenco in™ tho Unlted Statos nd n moro declaration of intontfons to becomo cltizens n. thelr lelsnre. Albany enots tho sevond tuegoat proportionato votoIn th entlre list, and tha averago for tho olept citios 18 1 to 4,85, Tho uverago of tho fifty-nine cittes (Washing- 1Lon City not votiug at” Prosidential oleutions), 18 . 1voter to each 574 inbabltants, . Massnchusetts requires rogistration and the payment of a poll-tax, und has an educational qualiticution, requiring the voter' to bu able to fund tho Constitutlon of tho Btato In English, and toslgn bisown pame. The averige of the elght cities of Massachusatts Included o the list 181 to 0.84, . The vote of Now York City (1 to 6870 is rela- tively smaller thun nny of the cight oltios from that Stato. Folluwing t¢-the tablo showing population of, vota onat by, and ratio of voto to' population In, thesixty lurgost olties in tho Unitod Btites,=— propared ns basis for. computing changos In bopulation at oach revurring Prosidontial LI Uont poputas| sl | Ratigor apiila-| Preets |-Ratigo) Clties in ovder of llrn"mn- ,/.-nlml vuln';n popilutini. aidof dlectban, | poputa- 1. Now York, N, X 210 b % Bilduinh Bupst| il 1w 4 i Jivouklyn, i) 0G| to 67 . Clicugd, £ T R 2 Huston, M bl Brawti to Bt ).0uls, 310, Ax,a24| AT to T3 7. Iitinites, ) wi|l o G0t ¥, Cinclonatl prégie e (R v, San innch Zevenl aLzall to Sl 13 dow Urivans, kol 2025 o B luveinhd, O, G, L £2) AWl to B0 12 Ditisbusy 204311 1o &) S iio, Ny fyEy (R AT [ X i Wasiiihizion Nawatk, N, J 1 Juuivetie, i7. Ulty, No. E =] i3 pope: St 2 [l 3 g ! : 1 1 ) a9 3| a2 Rz 44 Indlanapa s, Py i Botiten o REEESS W to 10 to w to v to fo. w. o o . Towoi. M - Ean|ito b 43 Yo {1 to 6.1 B4t o 74tz 10 75 . TRl (o 69 1zl o HET e . Hoaitio &l voli 10 bt 10 . ¢l i b o L ford, Cd st o 45 Wiimineton, D < Bl 10 BI6 i Comdon, 3.4 . aimill o 46t 10 Su Punl, M o820l to G 43, Lawronc, b, il o 7.0 3. invton, 0, 1531 1o &) 3 Lornn, Mogs S0 1o 633 ) ud, X118y Atiunta, Q. -tk o S Lt Talis 45 Sagli o Gz afl o e S IB N o, 438 aan t 18 4 i ol ikl Avaraze ol fifty-nine cliled reporung.... *Dues not vote for President. ————— Jupaive from the tone of the Franch pross one would think that tho French peoplo regurd tha Iittle 8pock of wap on the north const of Africa only a8 tho oponing scene th groater und more importaut performances. Especlally 18 French sentitment very bittor ngainst the Itnl- Inns, Even tho otherwisa careful ang consorvas t1ve Juurial ites Deliate lots tho eat out of the buyg lu tho foliowtng manner: As Prassla attor Jenn, Rusala after tho Orlmenn wur, 80 haa Franco gathorod und imne roved hor atrenuth sibvw the ocourrejues of A870-'41. Everything elso was socrifived (o tha serlous and sucred obliwution to henl Franvo's wounds, to rostore) her vitality, und to usslst in tho rocuperation of her deeply affected inter- cats and presiiue, -Aftur tan yours® waiting snd warking, we now behald ' the risult of our lubor, and the [tallans are responsible . ‘Ms reault (meaning the’ reorgunlandon of the French nrmy) turns ngainst them rat, Thoy shpil here- after not boust that thoy .havo fannod rnd nursed Mobammedau fuguticism with jmpunity ngalust Frape's futoreats and for.thold own ax+ krandizoment, A8 fur us wo know the territory of ‘the. Kroumlr dies not belopg, Yl 2! thuse :.x‘glllll‘I':flOH which ard glaimed by tue Italla Irro- Cansidoring tho overbearing and frropresyisle #pirit of French Commuals his latier plece of surcasm on tho purt of the Journal ded Dehats 18 rathor suvorguous, Anuther Fronch piper (s ridicu)ing tho finnnelal difiicultios under which Italy 9 lnboring as followas . Italy'nu doubt has the umbition to apply agaln the l||{|no_n! *Muro Numrumf" to mml’;fl tere runonn Bun, To resurcect, howover, the grout- vess of unclont Howe It s not.alony nocess oufi-l x]«';lll:uuuu tho “Cupital,”” but_alév plenty of “onplial”’ ;i This lust rully s uot bad, becnuse Franco 18 the only county sftor oll whero Italy In her tinancial distress would, perbups, borrow o cent. y —————g—— It now seems to be a settled fact that the Duice of Cumberlund I8 (o bo exctuded from tho succession tp the Ducul crown of Hrunawick. Tho Grund Duke of Baden pald a vialt to the Duke uf Brunswick not long. ago, and, acvorye Inie to tho Magdeburger Zeltung, tho question of Buccession bus beon- definitly sottled betwoen the two, ‘Thoe Duky of Brunswick bas agroed to udopt tho .sccond son pf the Grand Duke of Buden, the W-yeur-old Princo Ludwiz Wil- belm, us nia own child, - The Eme peror is suld to be parfoatly williog thut his grandson shkall bo proclalme. sugcossar to tho Ducal vrown of Drunswick, Tals sgreemont would pndoubtedly setily tho anooying guestion of succeysor, und preclude much voxation and trouble;’ Gepmuny ol | nover copsent to Jot the Dushy §o.th tho ex« Crowa Prince of Hunover, ‘the Dukd of Curober-, lund, bocuiso it would neoept of . wnothor Guclphian skeleton in he clusol. - Whan Prusila wahicd, ufior the battle ol Langonsalza, the Kingdom of Ilagover aud’ mode -a Prussign proviyes of Hanoverian tepritory, she also ho- oume ‘posscssed of all the clajms whioh Tune over ight pngsess 10 an inherltance of tho Duchy of Beunswlok.. But the good alizens of Brunswick prafer to huve & Duke of thelr own, reslding umongat thom,, ListeAd of being. g ib- bled up aud mudo a Prosdun province: by she fusutiuble Bismarck; Thorafure, they wiil Joye fully nocept tho proposition, becuusoe they cune uat da uny butter, ¥ ) ¥ A FRRNCI-0ANADIAN company Wwith a capltal of $2,400,000 hys myde 8 propoaidon to the Guverniuent of the Dumialon to. estublish w JJino ot steawmers botween o port in Frauco sl Moutreal, for the purpuse of solthiung un areyof land of about 800 squure tiles in the Norihwust (fanitaba) with Fronch colunlats, A stoamer will legve euch port every foyrioen duys,, The Company prowlses to furnish the colanioig with thy mosns of transporiubions ulw), provide ench raully withu guinble bouse, a yoke ot eattlo, ung sysliciont provislons until she- Uret owip 12 hurvested. The véluoin monsy of. eyerything thus udvanced 18 to be reputd 1o ten oqua} and anpusl instalimeéaty, “The Conipany’ eXpeots to zecelve w subsidy nf §50.00 per annuin frow the Governmoent fur tho Uno of stuapere, anyd w purchisa tho necossury funds ot yedyced yatos, In cpoo tha Govesnacnt should ueeopt tha prope . auitdon, tha line will bo Immedjutcly, argunizeds g cojonisis will bo ut.work by tho 188 of July - yext, : = ———————— 3 ONE of our exchanges conlenses from o Qerman wrlige the ' jolluwing reyurding tho dewuy of bis mothor-tonguos ) o Wish uxm,;h discernwent he polnts qut thut muny of the stpungaest werdd (s 1e Jangudye of Lussiug aud other standint uurhors, $uph words us lustiveg, pleasuro paih or wiilk, Hisirichier, art ludn[‘c. wud einbdunyekraft, powor of jmuge ination, huve falien eagiraly fnto disuse, whils In mmr?I,ui Byve boe subaiiuted the wouker words of fareign denivution prumenade, kritier. und pnteae, ‘Fho writee fusther deolures, sid dived abundunt proot of his azsordon, that sl wost uny paver writien durjug the Thirtys Yeurs' Wur, when tho laugauay may bo suld to Luve been wovl Ju chaos, will e fuund to von- tilp a e pguelicr proporton of farelgo wards thun the uverago Berlia nuupnporuf to-day, In nddrtion it I sbow, mnn words which are o ‘fi?é ‘f':xenw“’” Gor bud nnnlogy, For instances, sich v U900 DrOaIong wa weilmlredend aud Jetstygy SU0M exy Ltk tug tho PINco uf tho hunest ol phett® Fpily nelhateerstundlich And geemeart, sy I8 tuoat Juste complained that {ue nps T, mun Journuliat of t-dny neems 1 1 ot Uon iedled inless Ho Gopliya nanibor, e s wards ani atiltod oxpresioun. o ol hary Rirel weitor would. ow think of myn "Il g it einem mesicr, with Kaife, thy o, Hinb newspper rbmuu beluge 101l 2uliifapgh D8 meatra; and ARAIN, Instond of oy frRdAme ey Prussia, must, in the new Jurgon, L un Seften Dreiissens, or still wore, 'pes, neita, AR 1 ro8WIL OF all this, 1L 18 wel, rc"*iher: tho Aermuns ure beine eanialy divido foy clisses, tho utig, n mall onc, wwhich apant! Vo ud-Taehod Grrami, W (06 otk ae, RIS 16 W LomKUO haghied up Tutgunges, P Trom g —— Tum seeret of tip Liprovein chnnncl at the Jottios Is thus sot lur’(‘l’:.tc:r Ty wo elieve; by tho Momphis 4, i ot ' Mompbls Acaluncleof The Intricate and_powerful B dredge-bont Bigley 1 o merinetof i ulla nehiovement, It ciin 11t ) qaesioen Trom tho piver's Bottom i fivo wip! B4 onorwons power I 8 dredgocton o dreyned ol ten yours ago. Then et ot drouigo-{ubs 10 thoBantnwest Pasy s® Je Blonally BCoop OuL 0 HWeny=1wo fat ehth Iiut. sppodo i thosu duys thupe Ly iel dredge-bout liko tho ayiey? Tho Southond Puns, nuw olosod, nifurded n tar hortor aneest tun’tho South Pass, now Jettled, o (Lo 10 presumo that with n dredio-bout 't e - lov's power, thoro would Uiy by L LT ctinutiol In tho ol Southwest than thope sy Ut new Boutn Jetty pusd, But there jgy mnufllh 1000000 0 Governiment subsition to o et Into conslderativnn s an ollset ayacyacy ke Houthwest,” And u very fuir offsot i¢ 15,4 o and his frionds bave diseovered, Eudy ml“x Scems thon that {1 1a the dredge. t keeps open n navigable depth of w, stend of Hudy' Jottles ot tio Buuch Pass. g truth 18 comilg out gradually, taat Ragjey LY re—— Mn. P, T, BAnsust has played hiy dodgo nguin, whoreby ho will obtainany. smougt of reo Rdvertising, o s sued n Philudelgy, editor und publisher, who tad been pur u: ,: making tho charge, for $100,00) nmages g publishing * tho stule slundor " that hy tag ) Interest In tho shows going under his name, .:: bad simpty hired out his“nume, Barnum 'm went off to a Justice of tho Poace, and mads. .(3 fidnvit that bo bos luvestod bundreds of hog. sandsot dolinrs In the traveling show businesy, and that no othor prson owns . lurqer shyrg than himself in tho new show comblnation known us “ P. T\ Barnum's Groatest Show o Eurth,” % Tho Gront Loudun Cireus," “Sunger's Royal Dritieh Menagerie,” and * Tho Internse tional Allled 8inwss* Old B, 14 8till tho priges of artful dedgars, ud well ug of showinen, e e——— g Di. Lexz has tade o deelsive report thay the projeot of teatiatorming tho Desert of Sanary Into an Inland son was utterly impracticable, © Dr. Lonz's Iceturo bofore thio Parts Geograpbical Boclety upon bis roturn from Timbuctoo gives muny Interesting facta ubout the grent desert, and corrects touny'genorully acceped uotlons, Tho fresh wator fossils, whlch ure met with in many parts, show, sccordlug to Dr, Lenz, thay the Buharn 18 not the bottom of a dried-up sea, ‘Tho temperuture 16 not nearly 80 ot as mighs .be oxpeogred; wild Leusts uro rare, und the myst formudable onherules to be met with are hg Tourneg tribes, who, scaordiug to report, have recently mugsnared the French Trans-Sabaran Bxpedition, On tho whole, tho Impression iy convoyad that tho Sabura 18 not hulf s black ey It tius beon patnted, wnd that It s . ntitled toan npulogy from tho entire elvilized worid, 5 e old A Nrw Yonx Herald dispatch says: And.uow tho roport 13 that the Repu Benutors ure tived of Me, Qorham, nn%"{‘ha‘lc:s oleetinn a4 Scoratary of the Sonute’ bns becumy fmipussibto, beeause al least n dozen or tiltecn of the Republleans bavo determined to voteaguinit him in any contingonoy. Tho Demoerats of coursa aro solid apiust bim,” ‘Tho wonder 8 that ho was able, with the uo feagrunt political record ho has made, tor himsolf In on the Ropubliean Senutors.’ Gorbam 18 0 no soundor egy thmn Brady, whose news paper ho ediis, : e ——— Tme’ Springfield (1lL) Reglater (Gov. Pitlmep's puper) givea it up, Ha throwsup e 8pongo in behalf of Chicugn nsn griln markey aud pugsus the belt aver to Sty Louls thusly: 8t. Louis la now n greator graiu centrothan Chicugo, The receipts of tho two citleslu week wares Bt Louls, 1,116,000 busbels: chlu(n. 7000, No wonder the Chleago zriin dealerd are alrmrlmg at tha increased gruin rates chared by tho radiroids, und declurivg that they will Flin * tho City by tho Luke."” e Ir costs $800,000 to get n streetrllroad clinrter in Now Urlouns, and tho mo.iey gves g tho City 'Trousury, und not {0t tha pockets of tho Aldermon. The ear companios urg compelled 30 1o keep thu struut upon Waich ther asckd arg luid * i good condivun frum eurb to curw” —St. Louli Repunlican. ; ; It dues not cbst nnything Mka 08 much a1 that to ket a strcot-railroad charter In Chicayo, nor duonr Aldermen permit nuy of the moey pald therefor to bu wasted on the City Trousury. ; ———— I the pleture entled ** Dut *Possutn Smell Towerful Good,” fn Harper's Weekly for April . 80, the oltizons of Plymouth, Mootgomer «Couitty, Pa., recognizo the goulal features of Samuul Jones,n colored brother oad a lucdd colobrity. Mr. IHuavendon, tho urtist, bas re cently visitad Plymouth, avd whily there bo mado tho skoteh for his ploture in tho Avadeny, * of whigh Hugper's Week y produces u fuc-simile, e Seyaton Fuva tells the Lowlston (Me) Jmirnal thur when ho arose [n thoe Senute kol tended to speak only of oo polnt about twenty minutas, but the luteyruptionsot the Demucraté ted bim (b wake usy of facts thut ko bad gutber e for uso ut some futire time, Ou the whules tho Dumuorstic'Bonators saom 10 havo made s pther of thulr customury blundors, e PERSUNALS. “ Birdlo MeWhirtor”—We have reccived your puum entitled * [n the Mist." Horeatierlt Wikl ukuown 18 umonk the migsed. The new Cznr Is surrounded by sixcordons of soldicrs, and nuver goos uutside tno irst 00t 110wl hot jpivo uuy urdou parties thly susines ‘The Boston Globg says that ** Senator [‘_mt bas bls destiny in his own buuds'* S Phtt 1hust olthor bave a St Luuls bund or o smatt det g, 3. Flayels Is lecturing In London on “En- glish Humorlsts” Tho vourss will consist ol one short lootro if the- gontlomun sticks 10 L subjoot, ‘I'lso Mowphls Appeal snys that * Jellersod Duvieis nbler thun u martyr.” M. David ¥ be remermbergd us tha goutlom:n who tried Bluumer coAlumo With suoh pour success 5 London papers stato that lel'lu’sbu:lN 10 be pluced 1n Wegtilugter Abley, wud w:nr culmily waitlag for sumo Dotrolt puporto 0 fwwjil bo tho Hrit tiuie. Curlylo wus over o8 bust. i 3 w100 that # colt named 8t, Lowlslé fl.:: 4 tavorlt for 'the Epsom Durby. 1 lhemli;d o hing It 8 unme (ol hogao menk unu:n e tho wepug Wiy ot thy pnmn“m Leture tho 18 over," = {rale, wsfayor A New: York' papor says - that n.“rul Prince, of Bostoy, wno bas been very IM“ ablo 1o sit up fopr:ing Hist tme on ’l‘m:u w-‘ and tho qyesuon nutupuily sried [t e Muyop Peiugo, kot alony Leforo g wad siok, Arlansas papers aro grently es¢ "N."If,' cause Frank MoQuee, wne of ll::u sl PnieRs fu that Stuty, who ur " youny lidy lust woek, bui aystoviously “-h:;:: Huared. Prgbably ne ads kono ot mwun”v arty and buy Mra, slednee s anrk w“:d L Mps, Farramit, the widow of the 4 lllll a Is dusoribod us ‘full ot lifo and uulmfu‘rl o I8 of updium hight, wid bas browa bul :'-m % €000, und tundee Oyes, Hao B f'";::- foptond wemary of her busband, wid uewrlwmm‘ 19 L Bi4 ngble decds und traits of ¢ o e Victorla iorslf wrote for the LU/, JOTS & PURIETAPE AuRaune ML tho _grraugeuats fur Beapon Waon un Biylish oditor gots ud 10 0y, ho dopai'k give b 1o bk boy QEUB AL, g Lok, Not et . He douple oad “1 oure b 10urks It# ust," and -nab (twus b 78 £ al 180 bolonga the next mora dg, vo mmz:“ Cawded Luse-ball und Bored-rapig FOPOres out t muka room LoF 1t Lo It I8 tumoroed j private efreles ;\ e th ital thut Byuatoe’ Copgor b pue O romsutio sna suntinontel of "'"v":'w Cor Foster declired that Illllhvunl)l"“'n o gresalonyl record whory @ wat s e, Waes iyudly jufatuated with bld own of e Bire. Ounger would enter iue ‘s . G Houso 15 wuig tpwmodiataly Kuowh &er would son uttract ol u‘s'fl i wotions and wellow * boru.” 80 i