Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 13, 1881, Page 4

4 : THE CIICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1881— SLVIS PAGED. ing such o Jendor from tho bonfits of o sub- sequent telumplt. Tf this be a true deserlp- thon of Conkliug's Republicanksm, nnd thero Is no teason to doubt 1ty thon the sooner that gentleman shall bo deposed from teador- shilp the better It whil be for the Republiean party, and tho probability of such s result Js sufMeciont Justifieation for the course Presl- dent Garfeld threntened by withdrawing the Conkling nominntions for the New York ~ 4 eniphinslze the other fact that Miss Rosn's q'!‘ 1 Vo ) fi mind has not been dwarfed by her bodily B'Ac 'R,x J & develapment, She writes beantifully impld e D | Einglish, There aro but few bouks In the TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. Piteaiyn laland Libvary, and all of them are tvells of Fuzlish undefiled, Miss Itosa s avparently been n diligent reader of them. 1t was doubted by some who sead the magn 2ine article whether she conld have written fnueh of it. Mut Capt. John Cothnan, now fn San Franelsco, has' hind the privilege of Im toyal and actlve, pkiing might have continued to snlk, nnd yoet nll the forces which he 13 supposed to command woull have worked earnestly for Garlield’s eloc- tion. Morcover, the Iargest Republiean mnjoritles fn New York State enme from those distriets which had revolted against Conkiing’s diotation, nnd these mnajoritics would have been just ay large it lio had not spoken o-wlngle word, Indeed It is not claitned that Conkling’s intiuence instde or from n Stata whore an sppolntmont was be wnde, b adveance of seading [n the nousl- nations and this would bu an absolute sur- rerder of his abpointment prerozative, ‘fho President cannot do thls thing, e e THE PURE-WATER FROBLEM. It tany bo coneeded at the outset that the water of Lake Michigan haa been very bad, and oven unfit for drinking, during the pust netivy, energotle ngunts of outsido partles keenly bDent upon every scheme of galny— honest or dishonest. Many young wen go W Washington to hold clerkships, and who very spen diseuver that it they have any hope for the futura they must quit that most dangerous of ull pinces, Better for n seholnr, n wan of ability, encergy, aml Industey to take a place ona farm fn [itnols ot $25 per ntonth and were tried and the plaintire o) othors wora direontinued, or " to slvmber from that doy to thty, [, . B3 lonie lottor the Gonorat syye 1 C0M Iurdon, tny doar sir, tia p wlicl, DU, M. nor oL M, DLereRn 1 you. TIE wa T diotagay ], YerT oy s DK OVGE & J0t aorios of pen DO Remot N 10 101N 18 Fartsed Gy oo 0%, Dubigy OF IDIUEY Trom 0 aen of eatuinng, (nOoP sene whiedh CEOWd WO N0 1 o 51O Wkres e Inistaku that which in of Intesors Pt & Whicl Wolld ol Your attenion. i g L Bulteg, RY MAIL—IN ADVANCE Dally cdittun. ane yenr, Ffis 0f n ponr, por motith. . ity wnd Sundag, oo yoar, Favndny, Uhieday, and Sads T y0! Mamin, ! Nodneadny wnd Friduy, bor yen Hunday, L0epe cdHon, per yent. o, il e fuw weeks, and. especially during the out- ) ofllees, bourd, than take ono of these polty elerks ‘hlete 48 last aota ol things ey S ,}‘;’c,“fi: EDIION =PORTEAND, scelng &, pnekage of hot lettors written to | outslde the Stata"of New York extends be- | flow from the Desplalues and tho caml | Conkifng nssumes that, heauso Gen. Gar- | shipsat Washincton, The general outcomo '{‘l:n'élnHfls'h'«?}'l.’l‘..'fi'{‘fi'x‘.#n'n"::" o g,l_flg,;;f_!:;gwm one of her girl friends, the taughter of the | yond the ellqne of oftie-brokers and rotatn- | throngh the Chleago River; that it may have | fleld nvited bim to go 1o Mentor shortly be- | of 2 potty elerksiip ab Washington s a lont- Tha onteur s Svado, it Dowag aul DTty e ———— Ix 1033 than one weok o n 5 organ In this clty found 1t Eg,l‘l:fi\sm. £W0 ODPORInE ViEewS OF the Deoageneil, it with roforonee to tho Robertson eag " * POlT ¢rs whom he leads, and all theso were golhg for Garfloll without nwaiting tho word of command from him, It thore was a certaln ypredominating influanca in o eritieal period of tho last Irestdentinl enmpuign which turned the senlo in Garfleli’s favor, (¢ may eausad somo slckness, though not o tithe of wint has Leen attributed to it sinee the samo disenses that hiave ocenrred 1t the elly have also been opldemic In places whore the Inke wator ts not useds and, finatly, that wo need soino connection with Luko Michigan Spocimon eoples Captain of a packet-ship, whicli fufly estab- Giva IPyst-UNico addres A in full, incinding County | Ish her nbility to write fluently and correct- and Ninte, . o o & 9 ' v/ Nomitiances may b mado aither by draft, cxpross, | 1§ A8 Gnpt, Codumau "“"‘3 o the warvel Post-Omea ordor. or In rogistored Tettor, atour sisk, | of Piteatry stand history fas TO CITY SUBSCRIBENS, ‘Thnt jt was litorally “concaired in sin and Daity, dolivered, Sunday excapted, 205 cents perwook. | ahapen {n injgult and that from 1ts souree of Datly. detiverad, Sunday incinded, 80 canta por woek. | tho triple crhino of m-mny‘ wurder, wmd s it foro the tnnuguration, the latter was bound to submit o the former's dictation, That is a preposterons view of tho ease. 1t 18 cer- tainly o very conmon ocenrrence for men to nsk advles and then refuso to follow it. Such a course hns never beon regarded s o hel- er's lite while in oftice, p paupor's 1ife whon out, or graduation pa a seamp, L'l of course 33 not universal’ but it Is very monoral. Membors of Congress, thorcfore, who lend thelr alil to oblain petty elerkshins st Wash+ ington for young men, ara really contribut- First vleto, Address TIE TIIBUNE COMPANY, Deenme sa Bitered from its impuritios that it has | be traced to the nctive nert which Gen, | that whil insure us goad water, All these | nousoffense. At all events, Gen. Gnrtiel’s | Ing to the destructlon of persons who other- ,,&",‘,’"{.‘;‘(‘,’“‘\::f““."“fi};}“‘}““: m?)\mlflefr"gflyg'fi;"m Cornor Madison and Dearborn-ate, Chlcago, il | EIven tho lo o o doetring 0t tho tatul doprove | (irant took. 1f votes were seoured for tho | branches of tho problem will bo conceded [ fuvitatlon to Conkling to visit Mentor did | wise might bo useful and exemplacy cltizons | Benutor Conkitng, Tho,vory harnus,® My of and pursity such fie we draatn of onty whon wo Republican tickes nbout the time Grant amt | by every one, - ‘The next questlons are, How | not earry with 1t an obligation to submit to | ut home, :;’L!:;:mmlémumfldv“ln tiemon uhu:::l;l“flm POSTAGE. reail tho siory of Eden, Coukling entered "the field which wonld | nre wo to got 1t, nud 1low ean we get it con- | any terms whioh the New York politician We retrain from saylug n word ns to the i0 et .1,"‘};' vned ng gy Auty hmposed wpon him|n it ! by tho Coustitution, ol s Gl W5 e oxorvige his Judgment|than tholr nato tho qualifections fferhaps [ df"""“‘ of a gentloman nomi- et g ty hated by the President ' 1t wns apparently the eseape from tho core ::mmannmz'an-o&;e"u;lfim?m Tl B rupting Influences of clvilization which For tho pénotit of aur patrons who datre ta sana | StetTCd tho purity and funocence of this stuylc copies of TR TRANUNE through the mall, wo | Drimitive community. have buen logt i€ they had taken no party then {tis safe to sny that Grant influenced n thousind where Conkling Inflaenced one. ‘That s nbout the ratlo of relative politieal pistantly with eonvenlience, vromptness, and econoiny ? a ‘Ihe question lins come before tha Common Counectl'lu the shinps of 1 proposition to take might undertake to hmposs upon tho now President. . Indeed, Conkling started out with such unrersonable domnands that Gen. Gartield woulid havobeen despleably weak nd Indles who seck thoso ofices, and who ows thelr npbolntments and thelr continumnce in oftiea to the short-lived fuvor of Congresstonnl Jepresentatives, It Is enongh to say that £0 L an_ANBArTnG af: (0 ho sLietm Bive henplipitptrnuiont fe i e i S power which theso two men exerelso in the | the water fromesoms polut twenty or thirly | ho yielded, Conkling demanded the Socrota- | tho distribution of patronage by members of | flee an fi\:n“wr York, ‘Tolior 1[ouso b Eight nnd Tereive Prao Papor,. glorte | Dtsnor Dorarss, of Detrolt, Is now taking | Nation nt large. It ls n picce of fuipertt- | milles notth of hore, say off Mighland Park, | ryship ot the Treasury, und it ho couldn't | Congress hns nuver tended to an olovation of | hutilsh hitn foe, hls yro. tho low oy, = simption tho President (do ol wixtoen Fako Lapor, e e l‘hl;?.lm;:“m : other Now York nomi-|of bis DPutro nutiotis, WhIch {6 Wi (what 1a’ hey"pse: ;ml;‘uv;::l“ lhl}‘\ Henntorln fuw ko tpon favorabiy. (i e Thld n0C OF tho' Prosis it B by inctt wi: dun: lmvlcnusml‘ n mfrc Toced, profount sonsation, Hisjsm; D wmicars try "o TG i g e thery Justify It, but his more(tre who ead thoughttin Trlonds’ ro- sk nage o to ard it ws o ravo and|hand £ o Dot & noxeusbio arror, | 14| Throtion o5y 200 politieil oppoients look [away and yo eoikea upon it us @ plees offpniite, Ang ()x et folly wiitcls may add to]kiow honnd J2eded alively Interest In Representntive Camubell’s 2 conta. | Catholle Uhureh-I'roperty bill, which seems — tabe tn o fair way of passing the Legisiae TIIBUNE BRANCI OFFICES. turn, It provides that the title of Roman Catholic ¢hurches shall vest fn Boards of e CricAgu TRIBUSE has osabllshad branch | Trustees to Lo appolnted by the conuremns ofiices rurg“mcamot subscriptions and advertiso= | ¢y roancctively. The Bishop nsserts that B R e toom % Tribune Hullding, .7, Mc- | 8uch & provision would be eruclly unjust,” FAnnES, Manoger. % A and alleges that Campbel! introduced the bill laso Eeotinnd—Allan's Amerlean News | on necgunt of o personnl. disagreoment with Rones, M Ronfluld-st. 5 LONDON, Iint—Amotioan Exchango, 419 Strand. | Dis purish priest. Campbell rotorts that per- nanea for Mr, Contkling to try to sieal Grant's which would require pnmping-works both thunder. hero nnd hore, and briig 1t thonce to theclty by undergrovul tunneling, Unquestionably thiz would glve us prre water, sineo the refuse of the elty nnd the ontpourings of tho tlyerdo not reach that foeality, It there were 1o other way of obtaining pure tvater thore might be a necessity for adopting the propo- sitfon antt nt nuy cost; but ns this method Involves dn ottlay at the minluim estimata 0 $10,000,000, and 1t wortld bo much more lko- get that he didw't want anything, Laler on, whah the Cabinet had beey made up, and the ['rensury did not go to him, Conkling transforreid his sfe que non to the New York Custom-llouse. All other favors counted for naught. Indeed, circumstances indfente that the Custom-Jiouse was Conk- fing’s obfoctive point all tho time, for the Treasury Included that, With all the churies of vacitintion which Conkiingsceks to fnston upon Presldent Garfleld, the latter scems to the eharncter of the publle servico; and it is notoriotts that the distribution of Federal patronage by members of Congress hus lind a most degrading eifect upon Wic solection of thie Congressmen themnselves, “Ofice Is al- ways Jegal-tender in maching polities. [ —— OFFIOB IN WASHIRGTON. The Intellectunl labors of thoss who rep- resent the people in thia Senate of Congress nve very great, and it Is not surprising, there- B Furetyn, Fizht una Twatvo Page Paper, tixteen I'ago Unp N0 BURRENDER. o, Tho preswmptlon is sttong that Prosident Qarfield s familisr with politleal history; and, it ho Is, ho donbiless hns n lively senso of the folly of compromlses, which nmount to surrenders cither In mutters of principlo orof policy. Mr. Olny tried to compromise the diftisulty between the nullifier Calhoun and President Jnokson, **Compromisel” VRN . 010, Avont. sonul feeling had nothing to do with his » 1y to fiin to $15,000,003 before It was fiudshed, | have been consfstent and determined fn his | fore, that from time to time we hear of mem- | tholr strength, deal with :v"e'r'ffie"w WASHINGTO action In this matter, 1le eltes tho case of | Saldold Hickory, * L will make no compro- | nug must requiro o constitutionnl nuond- | refusal to wive Mr. Conkitng o monopuly 6f | bors falling from overwork, and sinkiug than tho country’ kln';: A3MUS, T8, tho Roman. Gatholle Dishop of the Upper | Miso with traitors. L will hava no nezotl- {4 to enable tho elty to double its debt, it | tho custonis orvieo of Now York, under the welght of enre In tho DULIE IKer | srors than ona Goliceti i, Pentnsuln, who dlod intestate, and lofs | tons. I will executé the laws, Cathoun | ynore is any other mechiod that will ncecom- [ Another weakness fn Conkling's whine is | est. An oxtrnordinary lllusteation of the | writer of the second el T troublagita ottan F e T T Dearbory, | UNNUFCL Proporty, to wioh ho had tha soly shnll be tried for trenson, nud hanged I} piygh tho samo purposo nt less cost thnt1s the | the effort to put upon Seeretary Binino tho | most cugrossing labor which demands tho ——— e o awnet & (iray Opors Compangs | ttle, to bo litignted for by his heirs. A | found gullty, Ifho docs hiov Instantly 6ease } gy tg adapt, responsibility for Kobertson's nomfuntlon, | attention of Congressmen is that of tho dis- | ‘Tite Loulavllle Courler-Tourhal b gy “Hilleo Toylor worse condition of affairs nrose in Cannda Iu | his rebelllous course.”” Toteher,of Virklnlay | "1t {3 tha opinion of many of our best | It Is not eclear that Me. Blaine's handl- | tribution of ofllees. Tho Constitutlon ex- 1th inst, 1s & nutmmoth Issuo of elght Fiacise consequence of the misconduct of o Roman | Who “was the wo-between in the proposed | jykers that thore lsauothor plan which Is | work, oven if ho fnturfered, cuts any figure | pressly excludes tho Congress and it memws- | FIES f‘.fl:’““’:l in groat st to sy Terttarn sircat, comer of Monsoe. Engazomont | Catholle Bishop there, " | compromise with the great uullifier, hastened | purfectly fensible, and thot I8 to oxtend the | in the case. When Garfleld selected Bluine | bors from tho appolnting power, dhd yer | LIS 0 HEEE T o NarUweStoIn nuany o1 the entiBaatloy Nurslts Cadtbany. -auizign: S tolntorm Cathoun of the pirpose of tho | pregent tunnel farthor out into tho fake. | ns the chlet man in s Cabinot, ho prob- | nine-tenths of tho timo and . Inbor and | gna tho GhArms of {ho. Kront s : Dn. Sreensy 1L TyNo’s appearance In [ Prostdont, 'The South Carolinkan had o § gt was constructed with reforenceto such an | ably intended to defet to tho latter's | thoushts of theaverage niembor I8 consumed | voth ways,—tho City of Chicsgo, ,gmrmgh« B “mt“:;::;&";g;-:‘::{'fi:um Engage- | 0 10l of & cursifig prophet has caused | vision of the gallows, and ate lumble ple. | epurroney, The Board of Public Worksut | ndvica quite ns much ns to Senafor [ In thostruggle for patronage, ‘Tho Sonale | of Chlcago are lndabtod to the Courir- o ment of tho Linghris. “Stoten Kissost somo- amusement ond mors displeasure tu | 118 was compelled to vote for & mensure [ yng thme of the conssruction of the tunnel | Conkling's, In nny ease, 1t wns tho | of the United States ias for more than slxty und bts ulliclent soreespondont ut this paint, yy = tho Episcopal commuunlon. The roverend | “wgalnst which, at that very timo and ot 13 | aqtiefpnted tin (he thno would como when | Prosident who nssumed tho responsibilityof | days bren wnublo to attend Lo the specinl | Bsar b :‘;“‘;‘:]“‘{‘d" for muking knomn 1o thy Niandolph sime oo ers and 1a sans, | GeNLlCInAN IS reported us having said in bis Instaneo, troops werd beligg raised In South | gye)uy extenslon would be nocussary, mud | Robertson's nominatlon. 1le dld no more JRypiogh tho Bouth Jhepeaul business 1t was ealled to net npon; its thne belng oceupled in a strugglo to deter- mine whether the power to appolut a s attraog tho Northwestera watering-places, nfi&"&fi sunmer vigitors to tho North fucldentall; in its traln o grent denlof business, 'rn’:v'm Caroling, and beenuso of which the politl- clang of that State wera preparing for her secession from the Union.” * Clay’s political Engagomont of Nat Uoodwin, *Lovo nt Sehoot” | furewell acrmon: Mny God onrso nnd blast this chnreh if It evor Olympte Thentre, . | swerte from tha principles upon which it was invk stret, botween Laka and landolph, Va* | founded. My solemn impreeation will rest upon an extensfon enstward about fitty funt was nwde, with this emergenoy fn view, The than the Constitution nuthorizes him to do when ho sent Roborison’s name o tho Sen- depth of tho lake whora the present erib | ate, nud the Presidont’s excrelso of o constl- | custom-house offieer rests with the Presi- | of Chiciigo's Bouthorn trade, waich wass foy rloty ontortalnmont. i}:& (I.:lnl:l\“c‘ru ;fi’t‘:rm |‘n‘\c|.;n o too purpose of its | tarcer \\"‘, ,,.mI() “Ip o:l::xene:;h?l 017“5"-9 u"t rests iy thivty-two feet. There fs nothing in | tutional privitege gave M. Conkling no wur- | dent, where the Constitution placed it, or :’;;‘:J": flfr“'c‘u?’m\y Gll.u::.;l&)l; TOW eshunated by 3 compromise, During his candidaey for the ¢ ¢ p i 9 rwho seuks to usurp for him- Sourier-Journal o 000, whichis. SOCIE INGS. It oeenrad to some renders of tho sormon | Presidency ho sought to harmonize the the way of tapping the present tunnol and | rant for blocking public business during | with o Senator who sesks to usurp 3 searoge 1y tao high a flgure, Tho benotits of friendly relations between tho t:e‘m:“n; tho two scations aro obvious. Chicage 18 tho nntural motropalis of tho Misslesippl Vale 103 1t oun underae)) any competitor to polols fn Koutueky, Tonnessee, and Northorn Sisslasippl, Alnbnua, and Goorgin, not redchod by river routtes of transportution, For tha good work of fntroduc(ng Southorn morchanta to the up. rivaled markets of Chlongo, tho peopls of thag seotlon are Jurgoly Indebtod, as we havo sal, g the Courler-Jourial. ————— GuN. SienyMAN gave to the United Servics AMagazine n renson for violating Halleek's ondery ‘1o conccutrato, koep togother, and. fnfvench, until Buoll had Joinod his forces at Pittsburg Landiag with Graut,” which fs not onlya cone tesalon of disobedlenco of Halleck's aeders, but s cquivalont to o plew of guilty of a delibersts Purpose to sacrifico tho uriy. Snys Bberman 1t was nceessary that o combat, flerce and bit. tor, to test tho wanhood of two armics, ebould gario oft; and that was o3 good a place as aoy, 1t was not thon n question of military sxill wd strategy, but of courage und plueck, “ That is to say,"” romurks the Cloclunatl Gae zeélle, * 1t wns nocessary to 0Xposo our now yole unteers, without organlzation as en army, witke ont dispositions to onablo thom to form Ade fonsive and mutually supporting loe, withot positions or proparation for a Lattle, aod withe out ncommanding Genernl, to be attackeddy ntarmy having nll thoso conditions, In order to show to *aur euctules that, rudo and uototored 08 wo thon were, wo could ght as well as tert Rensons 8o wikd a8 this ouly Incroaso tho darke nesaan this arate,” e ———— A Creannorre (N, C.) dispateh deseribess novel mothiod of takiug o driuk of whisky by telograph: Uncler tho now Probibitory law in North Caror lny, Lirovird Tawnalil, o the Preach lirosd River, was mude * dry ** by tho aut of the Legie Iature. 'The township on the ulmnsu sldoot the rivor {3 wot.” "he lnties §a sitinted un abigd blull ovortopping the vpposit bunks. Tworoj have been stretenied from tho top of tho blud on tho wot &ide 1o tho lower bouk on thadiy siile. Iletweon thoso a busket [a susponded 02 siltfurs with gthor ropes nttached to B"" it pack und torth, When n thun on tho drs bank wants 1 drink-ho wous down to the river and blowss horn kept thore fur the purposc. Thun thabary koeper halls nlm frot tho othor Side 4nd asl ity what bo wauts, Tho onder I8, givén ford “whlsky strajght," *corn aud rm:lc‘l oe * cocks ke oxtending ft enstward n milo and a half ton point where tho luke Is fifty feet deop, and sinking n crib, which could be protected with stone-work about it that could be obtatned fit the necessary quantity from the refuse ‘of the Joliet quarries and the canal, and dumped thore. ‘The exten- sfou_of the tunnel n wile or a mile amd alinle further with the now erlb would not cost, say, & milifon of dollars, The cost of the present tunnel was less than halt a milifon doflurs, K It must be taken into account that the present season hns been an exceptionnt one, ‘Iho tremendons ceumulations of snow, the overilow of the Desplaines, and the break In the eanal forced anunusunl body of water through the river out Into the Iake. In ordl- nary seasons the water Is not impure over two weeks In the year, Assuming, however, that is Is Impure for o monutl, tho water could Lo takon during that thae from the outer eribnnd the rematnder of the thne from the funer, I It were not ndvisablu to use the outer all tho time. Ilad the Crib been a wile further out this apring, the overflow would not have hod thoe slightest effect upon the water, - Defore getting & constitutional amendient throngh the Loglslature to double the debt of the eity, which already excoeds tho cons stitutionnl fimit, ic is wiser to conslder tho plan which has been suggested nbuve, and, even were this not feasible, (b would be bet- ter to lovy n henvy tex for threo years of five orsix milllons per nunnm to accomplish the work than to pilo up the presontidebt by fif- teen or Lwenty millions ot dollars, It1s nlso as well to consider in this connection whethor our present evils have not been mngnifled by these who ara willing to plunge thecity Into debt and are always ready to pluck tho clty whenever the opportunity of- fers, The same greody and rapacions cor- morants uro 18 cager now as thoy were be- fore tha fire, und until tho Constitution chokedl them off, to get thelr clutenes on the ity 'Prensury, Beforo tuey are allowed to do this, tho elty nuthorities owe it to the tux- puyers to give the axtonsion of the presenty| tunnel a trinl at least. Af that falls, then the othar projeet might bo considered, i — maces CONKLING. AS A COMNON BCOLD, Tho New York IHerald prints a long sereed nhout the situntfon fn Washington, which purports to come from **an occaslonul correspondent,” but is generally aceepted ng Conkling's statement ol the case. It con- sists 1n about equal parts of chilaish gossip, & whine, md o persounl attack tipon Prest- dent Garfield, Conkling Is parnded as a muech-nbused wan, and the President 18 de- two months, nor for denouncing the I'rest- dent a8 o scoundrel now that Lobertson 1s likely to e confirmed. "The effort to drng Mr. Blaine Into tho controversy will not avail Mr. Conkling, beeause tho presence of the former does not affect the merlts of tho cango in the least, If Mr, Conklng is to become a chronio grumbler or s conunon seold, ho will ba o good deal of & nuisanee; but tho publie cnn gather some consolntion for the inflletlon liv the reflection that his change of humor indi- cates an abatemont of his luftuence, which has been used these many years for selflsh purposes and to the injury of the Kepublican party. 7 t e WASHINGION OFFICEHOLDERS, Thero 18 n strong tendency on the part of Senntors to grasp the appointinent of all oflicers who have to be confirmed by the Senate and leave to Representatives only tho petty or minor placesy when, In fact, tho membors of the House are the nearer repre- sentatives of tho peopie, sud it either had any right to seleet oflicers the Representa- tves should have the vreference. Andrew Johnson, when he was o member of the Lower louse of Congress, aetunlly proposed an swendment to the Constitulion appor- tioning among the severnl Congressionnl distriets of the country aif the nppointments in the Federal oflices nt Washington, This nrrangemont would meet the views of Con- gresshipn ot this duy precisely, 'I'ho Benslon law passed at the lnst sesslon nuthorized the nppolutuient of 141 extra clerks, ‘I'hose elerks nre to ba nllowed com~ pensation rauging ns high as $2,000 in some cases, und In others down to $1,800, $1,600, 81,400, $1,200, $1,000, §900, $7, and varl ous intermediate sums, ‘Tho new Seere- tary of the Interior undertook to make selections for these places neeording to merit, but the number of nuplleants was leglon, and the mombers of Congress clalming to have * friends—henchmon-—ap- polnted wers clnmorous. Threo times the number ot places would not have satisfiod tho Congressional clabmants alone, ‘Tho See- retavy, pleading the hinmediato nocossities of the service, appointed the whole number nt onee, without any roference to their fituess, and, though he may not hinve beneilted the publie sorvice, he relivved the Dopartment of thomab whose demunds Interrupted all other business, The raw reernlts wore put innta rush, without any previous diserim. Ination, ‘Thoy were driuwi from all parts of the country, and but fow of them had any previous experionce or knowledgo of the dutles they were to perform, Thoto s nothing which a young man ot self and his follows & power withheld from them Ly the Constltution. 'Fo show the momentous nature of the business which 1s now engrogsing the minds of -Seuntors, we elip from the report of Wednesday’s pro- ceedings the followine: wasinyaroN, D. €, May 11.—Mr, Kellogg enllod up the resolution offered Ly. him some dnys uga ealliug on the beads of Lxecutivo Do partments for o numes of clerks and om- ployés umployed o thelr respective Dopurt- wents, ote. Mr, lirown offered an nmendment enlling for sidditlonul informntion 1 ta whetnorsuvh clorks or omployés are white or colored, 'l resolucion und nmendinent wero Jald over for futuro notion, Mr, Mol oifered n resolution that hereaftor tho “ellichl reglater ot the Untted Status® ahull contain, (B wldittorn to the statistics reqnired by Sue. 610, levised Statutes, informution ne to tho Congresslonal distrlot from which each ofticer, elerk, aid employd in tho servico of tho United Statos {8 uppoluted and the date of his apuotntuient, “I'he next dny’s proceedings wero occupfed with n consideration of the snme question. Long harangues were mado s to thonpnber of ¢lerks In Washington from vartous “Mtates and distriets, "Uhe nighty minds of tho ven- erable Senators wore engrossed with the distributlon of elerkships, That is the question which to the average member of Congress i3 of more vital iimpor- tauce than all others. Every member of Con- gress has o nuinber of constituents who de- sira to lye o lazy lte, who wordd be glad to liveat the public oxpense, and who think their member of Congress should obtafn ofticlal plnces for them, The member applles and is told that there nre no vacancies, every ulace Is filled; ho ascortalns thut if the whole numbor of oftices were equally distributed among tho States and Congressional districts hls distriet svould bo entitled to o respectable number, sy thirty or forty, when in factonly four of his constituents aro represonted in tho public sorvice. Upon this stato of fucts, he considers that hils peoplo are denled their rights, and 11 fact some other districts nre enjoytug patronage which belongs to him, amd he thorefore pecomes indignant and talks loud, nnd ronrs vehimently that unlesé ha hnve Justico thare will be n row. Iu con- troversies of this charactor tho average mon- bar of Congress finds netivowmployment, and ats employmunt which sufts s taste and (itls the muasure of his statesmuuship, ‘Tho reso- {utlong provused in the Senate indieato how Tmportaut this question Is consldercd ut Wasluugton, — differences between siavery propagandists and those who hated humun bondage. As a matter of courso ho foll between two stools, Webster refused to become a party to Clny’s proposed eompromise with Culhoun, declarwg it he woull support the 1'resl- dent, to whom he was politlenlly opposed, In his righteous determination to preserve the Union, But Inter, In his famons 7th of Mareh speech, ho offered to compromiss nway his entire polltical career, and he in- stantly fell ns Lucifer fell from Jleaven, Douglns wore the urt of compromising to shreds, but all ks efforts at comprowmising avalled him nanght. Mo eomprontlsed hls party into warring factions, nnd compromisedl himself Into the grave. On his denth-bed in hls ndvice to his ehildren he madea ghastly com- mentary on his own politieal earcer. ‘Thesu are siriking examiples of the scores of rotting wrecks which strew the shores of the volitieal oceanofcompromise. Mr. Linculn’s earcerisn conspietious exnmple of the invuinerabllity of the public man who steers claar of the shonls of compromise. No man was more anxjons to concilinte than Mr, Llncoln, but when o had taken hig stand he was s firm as the syerlasting hills. 1le was qulte willing that his oppenentshould strike the flrst blow. s In your hasnds,” said he, in concluding his first Junngurn), Yy dissalisfled connbry- men, and not in ming, Is the momentous Is- sugof elvil war. Yon have no arth regls- tored in llenven to destroy the Government, while £ ahall havethe mostsolamn oo to preserve, protect, and defend it.” And he had Jost nope of hls Rrmness four years Inter, when the Democratle party deelared the War a fallure and demunded that * minie- diate efforts be nude for a cessution of hos- tilitles” with the viow of patehing up o dis- honorable pence. Lo his “dissatisfied fel- low-countrymen,” he replled: ** Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourae of war may speedily puss away, Yet, it 1t be God's will that It con- tinue till the wealth piled by boundsmon by two hundred and fitty years' unrequlied toll shnl bg sunk, aud il every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be repald by another drawn with the sword, ns wus sald three thousand years nzo, 50 still 1t must be sald that the Judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altugether.” Ilore Is o mine gling of the unilinching purpose ot the Rotuan soldler with the lofty. senss of Justice whieh belongs to this age of high elvillza- tion, And it 1 these tralts of chnractor which challense the admiration and respeet of the Amorlean prople. Thove Is o right side and n wrong side to every Issue, nid the peoplo aro not alow to diseaver this fuct, nor are they at all likely to support the wrong AT AT B o A hat this wns asking n good deal of the Al- A DA O 1O ghiAs T & AT | mighty, For unloss Dr. Tyng's principles Susncssand wark, JOHS o BARKEL WAL { wero the only ones whoreby men may bo ¥ T saved thero 18 no specinl snereduess ubout ORIENTAL LONGE, NO.&% A, F. & A. M—-Spocial | them, Why a church should be *eursed” 2 ke itakiks s, i i CiEsipe En:mlnry. nud “binsted” for departing from thom the =————————————————==—x= | ni0st devoted auherent of Low-Chirch prin- FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1831 ciples will find it diteult to explun. It ————————————————————— | would seem from this deliverance that nar- GEN. BrAUREGARD origlunto] the cable- | Towness, blzotry, and intolerunce ure not Tailrond, aud sued the Californin eompanies characteristies frons which Low-Church cler- for Infringement of patent, ‘Tho case was | EYuien arenccessarily exempt, finally compromised on agreement that the compnuies should not extend the use of the | A WRiTER in tho Pulladelphia Press gives cables for stroet-car purposes nway from tho | & chavter of Jeiforson Davis’ history which Pacific const. The rights of Gen, Beaurcgard | Will not probably be found In his blography. aro recognized by the Chleago companies, [ Tho jealousy whieh tho Presittent of the and he will-bo paid a royalty for the use of | Confederncy entertained for all his nilitary his Inventlon ih this clty, Licutenants 18 a fact well established in his- e tory and ensily eapable of proof. le de- Ir tho present pelce of British 3 per cont | £rnded Jo Johnston and Deauregard below consols nbove par is long mnintained, tho | the rank to which they wers Justly entitied conversion of another portlon qf the public | It the origlnat distribution of the chlet com- debt futo 83 por cents witl soon follow, Mr. | mands. e removed Johnston from the Gladstone created somo debt of this clnsa in | command of the Army of tho Tennessee ut & 1659, tha last ocesion when consols were tle when he waus achieving wonders, and above 101, and these stcurlties are now aboye | Precinttated the collapse of the Confederucy. 8, Whenever tha Government can redeem | 110 qunrreled with Lee, who was unwilling 3 por cent consols at par and sell 93¢ por | to prolonz a hopeless struggle, Lotore the cont debt nt or nbove B3¢ It effccts o saying | surrender, and never saw him afterwards, in annual Intorest, AtS5 1t would increase | the Intter belug averso to resuming triendly the capital on each £1,000,000 by §1i0,470, but | Telntons with tho arch-conspirator and mar- wotild sava £88 Gs In Intorest out of £30,000. | Plot. 1t has been justly snid that Loe was At 90 it wonld incrense tho enpital only | *tho Washington of the Confedoracy.” E£111,111, and would save £2,233 In interest, | Davie wns only its too-zenlous advocate, vho or nearly 74 per cont of it. lost more through his personal enmlties than he ever gained by his rashness, GEN. STEEDMAN has o good deal to say In T — his Toledo pouper sbout tha Democratis Mn. CoNkLiNG's mathomatical: value to . Guberautorial candidates In Olio, Ilfs | this country is expressed by the vulgar frac- preference Is for Gen. Durbin Ward, but ho | tion 1:225th, that being his proportionate rep- believes tho Ilon, Joln Follptt or Uncle | resuntative value in tho whols Governmont. Dick Bishop would make n goud canvasy, 1t hns been clabmed, howaver, that o has Mayor Means wonld not be g wise selection, absorbed tho .funeul:us of the Assistant Sen- Dbecause he has not yet demonstrated that ho | ator from New York, ‘Therefore, by a fa n blit cnougl man to run the City of Cin- | streteh of “Senatorial courtesy,” My, Conk- clunatl, to say nothlug of tho Stato of Ohio, | g may bo valued at 2-25ths, or 1-114th of Below this ostonsible reason 1s of courso the | the Government, If we throw Iu the Vice- more Important ono, not stated by Gon. Presidont, out of extreme complalsance, Steedman, that & highly moral kangaroo like | though he really counts for nothing, Mr. Mayor Menns I8 not lkely to ban fayoriy | Conkling’s mathematical value is 3-23ths, or With the Democratie mnsses, Tho Clucine | 159th of tho Government. The President, natl Enqulrer tops the list of condidntes by | on tho ather hand, s one-third of tue Gov-: sugeesting that “ Old Chlekamauga” Stead- ernment, 1o s twenty-five times ns voteu- man would be Imnensely popular himseltas | tnl as Alr, Conkling, tie Vics-Prosidont, a Gubernatoiia! cnndidate, and the Assistant Senator from New York rolled inle one, * When Mr, Conkliug pro- ‘Pue-Shanghai correspondent of the Lon- | boses, thorefore, to trent with Iim on cqual don Thimes hus nttompted 40 dofoud tho atro. | 1eIns, he shoull appear at th Whtte Houso clons opium tradlo which Engiund forces | Bot merely through n soothiugalruy com- on Chinn for (he sake of the Indinn reve- | Mitiee, With Mrs, Winslow Dawes at its s, ‘Tho dofense 18 n spechmen of thorough | head, bub in povson, with seventy-tive Son- casulstry, It mmountsto this: that.ig tho | 10F8 ub his back, and tho Viee-Lresldent tall,” w8 tno tustd of tho thirsty ndividusl may dintate, This f8 put Into tho busket, which it quickly drawn tu” tho opposic side of the rlu-r! whore 1t 14 tukon out and drink and 1o price© the drink ordrinks is put in. Tho basket fsthel pullud Lok to tho biwT and bunw upfor &1uts firw onll, This novel praotice hos gulsod nuno of whisky telogravhing. e MiLtre's palutlgs aro the *fat takes” i art from n pecunlary potnt of view. Ho nevee enjoyed during his lifetimo tho voguo whics bt pletures now bave, Mis *L'Angelus wnd puinted fn 1850, and partinlly engnged toa o ton wmutour for $500, But thopricewas thought 100 high, nng 1L wos fold 1o desler. Ate¥. years g M, Wilson paid $7.000 for It, aadsttbe Toent walo of hits palutings in Lurfs (¢ brodgté SELH00. Anotior Millet, the *Faveusey bwl:‘. in Decomber, 1877, for 8,000f,, rose ot zmm&’v 25008, Tho 199 plotures of tho Wilson ¢ CHARLOTTE, N. U, was mnde & *‘dry? town under tho Logal Optlon Inw, by a cluso vote, the mujority bolng only 9. Tho ordi- nuneos nre very steingent and will be rleldly enforued—nt flrst, An Augusta (Gu.) paporin commonting on this voto suys: Ao evild of promiscuous drinking of alcho- halle ur uther intoxienting beverages are Indood B S i o RN RIS A AR 5 i nounced ns an unserupulous bargutner who | abifity ean do mora destruetive of any future | tremendous. Intemperanco 1 the ourso of tha | ton, cnictly okl masters, brought ‘“‘v“%; ! Tiritlsh conse to send optam to Chlua tha | thrown fufur effee sidn of n controversy, Indeed, Jt may bo | made pledges freely which he has sluce | hopo of usofulness than to bo appofnted to o [ a% wid wuialediotion to thi) St Anstbing | 425, which ndicated u Fising tmitrkut 07 9L 4 Chinese will grow It for thomselves, Mr, 1% ” saliLwith conflddence that they never support | broken without compunction, E Washington eclerkship, Such nn appolute | thnt probibition will retedy it. "o oxporience | Kvod works, both modeen undug];:';“;;:f:..», % Storrs Turner, Seototary of tha Soctoty far | T1E deeree reducing pensunt ronts In Itus- | tho wrong sldo If they understand-tho ques- | ‘Pho gossip tn this artlele, wihiclhs ronds ns | mont is delusive wud s domornlizing, “Lhore ac cTher colmnuition e o tite lioued, that '\'{“’,""""k"”m,‘, w c:“,l.xwf;' 7, W, Mackayfof 7 o Supprosston of th Oplun Trado, bag | 518, 1lthougl b apptics only o w porion of | tion; mud tho presumption that they il to | though It was taken down inshurthiand | is o townro of olleg, savo tla plonsuro of | pilvatels i tha, fh T s FAUIO REWRIEKY | 10000001 tho oa by Troyon, for Byl | 4 answered this argument ly o paniphlet, 1lo thie Emplre, whera the sosl s very poor and | understand any question bronght elearly Into | team Mr, Conkliug's dlvtation, muy hive | the appointimg powoer, and oneof tho grent | Svnses 1o ho pracurabio caslly, recoirss s Lud to the “ Intorior of n Courtyurd In ltali” by 11 ahows conclusively that thegrowth of Chiness unprofitable, wilf prove n great relief to the | yublie view Is a violent one which publle | some foundation, It Is altogether probable [ promises held ent by the Democratle party gnius \fi'|'|d,.‘§’['§'|r&‘."|'{,'§ e ors .:‘r'x':’u‘::';r'; Dosenps, for 36,800, by Mr. W. I Vanlerbilh # oplum is not so dangerous s thing ns the con- land-workers, whose °°'"‘_“l°“ hins been de- | pien will do well not to Indulge. ‘Phe people | that the Prestdent sndo searchiug tnquiries | Inst year was that, in case of Ilancock’s elece | Wiys of Killing i cut thun ehoklin her with buts | Mr, Seorctun was tho buyer of L/ Avgelus 4 tnved growth of tho Indlan pappy. The plorable, * 1 applies to 5,700,000 pousants, | thoroughly. comprehend the nnture of the | concorning men whom he was aisposed or | tion, there would ho 8,000 romovals of clerks | §oTy Men who flud profit 1 Mlor-soliinig wil fad o way of contlnulng crwve athnulants will o genbitylug thole appotites, Wo shail watch tho Canrlotto experiment with mineh - fntorest, the IHOTe 80 14 1t 18 but I Lorornner of whnt tho wholo 8tite ot North Curolinn {8 ngitated ubout, We nre the more conoerhed i this trinl, becauso wo have beard thut, failing to split the Bolid, Huuth o the negra und the debl guestions, i elfort to neeomplish ju by prohibition is the next sehome o ordor, Wo huve wore fulth n pers sonal work und example, 1 aud ont of ke chusch, thun |u sumptuary luwe; but if Chars Totte shufl provoe us to bo wistuken, so much tho bettor tor Churlotte, Tho hien of spiitting the Bolld SBouth by ratsing the probibition fssue s a now one. It woulil Room to hy an unpromising ticld gor the olfuris of coorelve teetotul advoontes, ustiess, St who forwer drug Js not nearly 5o dewdly ns tho | Who will bo retloved of a conslderablo por- ver n mothod of latter, Besldes, the growth of the plant ex- tlon of thelr annual puyments on account of copt for medicinnl purposes is Hlegul In Jand, white nll accumulated arrears will bo Shina, atov o remitted. "Phoso proprietors who have not < :l‘;:' ",:':‘tn‘;h‘“ro‘,‘:;u:l"‘l:\g:'yu‘ 15 svould . do yot arranged for sellhuz holdings to peasants ¥ o ——————— will bo compelled to do so by 1883, Tho de- ANY Hitlo griovances which the pubite | tafls of tho ukuse ara thus stated by & dis- teh: may have with the elerk of tho wenther os to | P9 Thoe ukase will deoreo that lotora tha present area of high thormomoter ought m,,m‘:.m muy o (o \‘nlunmr}l'"::rz&‘uam'}?g ta be sltenced by the reflection that {e fs just { c:l_lllvl‘c’llt‘!hlrullm{fi;' “vgh“ml l:»wnur‘:llllln :nm.“:. thoweather needed for things growing, Win- | St HotLaam b e S b Mountima (ho tor having extended lself clear up to the ““l"llu“lh ]ng'mumn =vu rl‘:a :-{.;il“ut':’:d ‘.‘;""“.';':}: ot vy i Il pousunis ni u Yy, ui P middlo of April, it Is necossary that wo | ERGVUE BVRIGIRT fioh"id"Yeduom. thotr i shauld hiave plenty of heat and iwofsture to hulyfllmnl‘. "L“.tfin Lulmm‘ulrlnwfm wlllllyn':‘-a'l:nlo ";‘l“ ¢ make wup for lost time, and we are hiaving | pariunt o SICUICS Gunna] Aty 3 ropriotors for reduced paymients secolvid ,fi them, and vogetation{s responding with s whl, | Hot scouhuiated ‘profts of o Sinto bank, B PR TR Cineato Trisuye hins beea hulll‘ol;{ by & plonsant and friendly noticaln the ’;ul wamery {Alw) Advertier and AMauil, trom :X ) wo glean that * Satun nowhero tbis side i Ulizlg brink of Lis own droadful dan:;‘ v Dosaussos such un nethve and powerful “Tho oyidonco of Sutanio ludustey 1889 ta bio s TiiRUNE'S criticlsma of fome . politieal mothois that prevall tu tho &7‘:“ -t thoro anything sacred sbout mnmf Bln o cortatnly buve ho futerest fn carry lnlom % fare nguinst oue of hisown ||ulumcd.ln;h Thero wust bo o mistake i it ‘dedfld““ vstoomed contemporury hus confuun o of with the Repubticaq party and 1o i ool governmunt, an honest balloty n‘:- i count. [t intendod to suys ThO BICH b hultdozed Kapublioans' of the Bput Besre whora this alda of the goMlen a?tm‘v‘u Taim and powerful s dofendor s Tz CHiC UNES o o g e 1N notlelng the Tojection of theblll In Issue forced upon the President by Mg, Conkling: and Mr, Conkling not anly knows thnt they comprehed It, but knows that they austain the President. In defercucs to tils strong expression of publle senthment, whilch §€ ho falls to respeet ho dure not wholly defy, Mr. Conkling has abundoned s domineoring tone and attitudo and eossed 1o bo lusolent, Ten duys ago he was a9 fm- perious us Cresur: to-day hoe allows his friends and sntellites to implore thie Sonute not to humble hiw. Ten days age he declared Wint his conld and would Inluca the Senato to refeet Robertson; to-day he urgos his frionds to sue the Prosident for @ com- promise. sie, Conkllng's tone of command hus given wisy to that of enbreaty, ¢ Why? I3ccnuse ho knows his position i3 Indefansls ble, and becauss ho knows that o Is opposed urged fo appoint ‘{0 high pluees, It s also probable thut he sile frequent ehunges in his list, and expressed from timo to thue o purpose to appoint certnin men to cortnin oftfices which ho subsequently found to bo alther unwiso ot tnoxpediont. But 1t s smalt bustness for Mr, Conkling to go ahout retailing ntters of thid kind, and making public con- versutions which wera private nud confidon- tlal, 1t Woull bo diflienit under any condl- {lons far & new President to (11 up the entlys Hne of<elvil oflices nt his disposal without frequently changing his mind; bus the dip. culty Iu this cuse wns enormously inerensed by the various factfons which it was Garlieli’s ambition ta conellinto, It mny be sald, how. wver, that I the Presldent of tho United States 18 no longer to havo the privilege of ehanglog his mlnd, and Is to be denounced a8 In Washington, and 60,000 other removals from office In the United States, and as many nupolntments,—the lntter to bo all ** Demo- eratg ! "I'hiere nvo two classos of-persons who hold offces nt Washington,—we spenk of thosy apvointed and removable at plonsure. The flrst {s that clnss of persons who have a he- roditary elabin, ‘Thoy nro the sous of furmer Incumbionts, sons of old politicians, sons of former mowburs of Congress, sons of widsws belonging to once fashionnble or wealthy po- Mien) Snndles, nnd Nnked by marrlage whth the men of the presunt dny, ‘Those classes of poersous earry thelr hereditary claims through several gensrations, and they gon- erally beeomo permanent resldents of \Wnsh- ington. They have no objoct, or aim, or ame bitton In life save to hold a clerkship and bo e b P 8.3 g Cab s e Prrenr CoorEm, the philanthroplst of Now York, suys: L tearnedd threo trados. Tlearncd to be a brows or, i conciker, and # mactinist, all before € wua 2l yearsold, 1 worked threo years ot $1.60 L) u-yl angd { enved unough uut of thut to guta The trees nre falrly bursting with louf, and | BOW RnOLLLIRK 10 nLout 100,000,000 rubles. the grass shooting out of thy grouud, while “Cho great reform mensure In land matters corn and wheat nod other coreals nre coming | 188 striking contrast with the ditatory and H; nlong at o tremendous rate. Notwithstand- unjust courge of England towards the Irish | by the best public sentlment.In the country, | a rusent whenover ho exerclsstint privilege, | supportod by the Government out ot publle !‘.23:;“.:'.‘5.‘1 l‘ fi.fi‘:,;’.:';‘“&%% ‘.‘.‘.‘.‘f.l:,';‘}‘;‘.,;}i’ n‘}mi':; Hritish 6 £ Commots to 1mak® clemm\:fl & _ ing the unusually lonk winter and backward peasants, whoso grounds of complaing are | ‘Pheso rensons might not be alone suficient | the posttion will hardiy bo caveted 8o much | (axes, They have no education save such ug | uching wnd tundy then for sule, Yhut was bes e:f;’(":h w" :;:; ln that body, it wad mv:‘ "' 54 \poring, wo doubt It vegetatlon aud tho craps | very shilur 1o thoss of the Russian, With | to influsnce himj bus the President, by act~ | In the futuroas 1t has boen tn tha pnst, fits thom o to mere elurieal worls, and they | forgshu warat 1813, 1dutormluad o wiv tho | 00 iouNe yestorduy that the Prese ‘on the 12th of May, 1850, nftor & very favorp- | one stroke of tha pen the Russian Govern- Dble winter, made suy better showing thau an | ment. accomplishes what has not yot beon the samo dnta of this year, Nature always | dons by Parliamont after: Parlament in catehes up In tha loug run, Euglond, In this matter an nuteoerstic Gov- rr——————— i criment eortainly connmonds itselg to nd- AN Intcresting article fn a Iato number | miration in compnrison with thu so-called of Seribner's AMlantily brought the history | Liberal Governmon ot Grent Britain, of the Pltealpn Islanders down to the pres- S——— ent day, ‘Ihut theiling volume known to It 18 tho practice of tho Conkling orauns to youthful readers of adventure a3 “The Mu- | ascribe (o that gentleman the creditol olect- Ls. tineers of tha Buunty,” censod ts nurrative | Ing Gon, Garfield, 1l pppearanco in the somewhers in the "s. The Seribner uriicls | eampulan Js salil to have been the furning- took the story up ot that polnt and brought | volut, and 1t 1s contended .that without his it forward to dute. "o writer of the supple- | sppearance defout would havihbeen Inega- - mentary bistory fs une of the Islanders, o | bla, Allthls Is very sitlyi” The parvticular Miss Rosn Youne, who Is deseribed os belng | New York faction ofwhich Mr, Conkling ns- 24 yeurs of nge, 08 struight a8 an arrow, as | sumes to be the leader wayalready fully com- ficet as o deer; one who bas never kuown | witted to the cnmpnign. Cornell was Gov- the touch of wahwe, who can swim Jike o | ernor of Now York, and was kuown to huve fish, and elinb ke o squirrel, and s withal | a higher nibition, Arthur had beon nomi- as good us she Is graceful and accum- | nated for Viee-Presidont, o distinetion farbe- plished. Wo nentlon thess charms not | yond hls most extravagant dreams. Mogton, with the mallclous purpose of caus- | as Conkling now snys, had been prombsed a Jng a rush of matrlmenially-inelined | bigh place, and had put his hand to his young men fo Plteatrn Island, but to | purse. Plult’s Senatorlal wspirutions wade fng with firmness and deelsion, hus galned un Important advontage, llones, belng powerless longor tg, contjnug the naw un- equal coptest,. Alre Qonkling allows bls friends to uuu_( rn compromlse; he begs by proxy} It 15" diMcule 10 concoivo of an at~ titude more humillating, 1t Is not strange that Senutors pity Mr. Conkling and suek to interpose in Wis bohulf, But it does not follow that the Prosldent should consent to wecompromise, No lionorable compromlse I8 poustblo to ki, 1t 18 o question wiether the right to_nominate a eandidato for Collector of the Tort of Now York resides In the President or In Benntor Conkling, And this question covors the wholy runge of ex» ecutive nowivations to the Scuute, It is a question whether Mr, Conkling shall bo dofeated or the Prosident surrender, 1t folluws that there is no widdle courso left to the Prosident. 'The withdrawal of the nusie of Robertspn would be u confesslon of a tactt ugreement o the part of tho President that hereafter during bis term ho woull con- sult the Republlesn Senator or Svuators workd an equivaient fu gomo form of usvful lue bor for ull thut 1 consimed in it 1 wont on and anlurfiu‘l iy bustiess, il the while Kuomng out of debt, 1 cannot recolleet i tline whon L conlid not pay what 1 owed nnr duy, 1wonld not spenil nionby beforo Ioaraed it, Anuther rule I had wae to Keop clens of tho bunks; 1 nover askod thom for pocummodations | never gut thom to disepunt notes, hocuuso | did nut wish to incur an nhllruuun without f cortainty of bofog nble topay it In tast way Lisnnged to keep oloay of patilus, My rulu was “puy us you go 1 cun't rutnember the thme when nny man . could nut huve had for the usking what { owed bim. Anothor thing 1 wish to suy: all the wonuey | evor iado Wiy I mechunicnl business, sud’not la speculution, e —— . QeN, Butren has wrltten a clergyman In Tronton, N.J., a clroumstantial account of the manner in which Gen, Twiigs' swords and core talu sltver plute cume into his possosalon when howas commuuding nt Now Orleans, and bas vx- plained the dispailton made of thoni, Tha swords wero first doposited s tho United Btutes 'Troasury, aud were alterwards restored to Qun, ‘Iwiges’ doughtor, Tho shiver was turned over to Gen. Butler's suceesior ut Now Orleans, and e Lua Inveutaries and recelpts for wll of it. Jme uedintely aftor the War sufty wore brought uguingt bl u Now York and Baltivore sygre- guting ju clulms for dumoges sustaibed Wt New Orleans guito & wiltion dollurs. 'Llirve of thow It would be ldle to endenvor to follow atl the Jtems of goastp with which Mr, Conkling’s Jlerald stateinont 1s tilled, Involving minor oflles aud petty disappolutments, but thers are some weuk polnts in It which muyns well bo exposed, 1t Is stated on bahalt of Conkling that o sud Gon. Grant wore Inditloront to the stc- cess of the [tepublican icket lnst fall, pud did nat N g finger nor ralso tholr volees to Relp It until Inte In the campuign, and then ouly at the urgancy of Mr, Arthur and with an hmplled prowmiss of “primacy,” Conk- {ing should allow Gen, Arant to sponk for hbmsoll In anaffale of this kind, Iut hois i orror I ho thinks any such statoment of thio cago {8 caleulated to enlnrge publio sym- pathy for him or nerease his clalms uvon o Republican Adwinistration, 14 18 so fur from croditable thut o party Jvader should sulls Tns Ity tont becauso ha has not been able to havo hls own way, and should come out only upon a prowmlse, explielt or fmplied, of patronage, that tho whwlssion of such con- duct Is of Itself yulliclent reasen tor exclud- nollcs aud Eplicopt spend their llves walting for a place when 4 oligible, Wowerd out, und drinking, gumbling, lonling, and talking politics when in; but, whether in or out, nfways [dle, improvident, Ignorant, use- less lonters, af no possible use to themselves, 10 society, to frlends, ‘They have not energy or fitolligencs enough to be burglars or Communists, and thoy live and dio use. less drones, without lows or ambition, The rauks of this class nvo recruited from yoar to year by solectlons fyom the Stutes by members of Congress speking places for cons stituents, ‘I'he only hope of thesels to be dismissed at pu evarly date; the longer they are rotafned, thelr uithwnto remnoval bolng certaln, the surer they will joln the arwy of ex-ofliclal and professional oflice-secking loat- ers which crowds the City of Washington. A second cfuss are the mon who seek theso places for other purposes, ‘They scek places in the Departuionts for the opportunities that bright, active, and mtelligeut men are guivk to discover and minke the most of. They soek pluces at Washington tor plunder, and, though uominally were clerks, they ure the oxcluded only :wnum c’;‘u e MHune, all othorclergymen n u;::r. Tho fagt i, Rowud u“hu"fi‘mlxt:m o5, whiglble, Just ne are S'rt'flby(flflunl.n e or Metoulsts, und fur tho saaod it exclugiatt Is ot dlergymony and .l‘m;‘ Sroetigivie all clorgymon uxcopt Eplsoopalia! b oognla0 857 18 that tho English luw docé “"";‘,.mpflel olergymen nssuch oxcopt 18088 1 af tho Extublishod Church. Tk : ot Tu vassals of Bavon Conkl\n‘xl;‘:‘ o stantly tolllng of the dreadrul '?:‘mwu afier lmrnhnpponmm'huhuummfl» "P e WS tue Muiue clection, They ndfl:" ul“’ Ine sloriouyly Jnactive before |l.r b, b0 Wik tended o continuc o, Tu uuml i nocurding 10 tholr storys uouunfl' viain dutytoluullapublmn partys it BENATON QAnLAND, Of Afi:“fidml“ friend 1ho oln;.\; day why he § o whisky., Hosujl: as18 You know w lnda protts Bot 851K gver 2 anisus this summor, #nd EVEE gave o8 Siutu stuiuping. Well, 1 'umulfl""f m,.m wood muny guod fellows whi B P Whu wee BOW {n the durk mu{“ ""“"“‘”‘Wm Which over it mny bo. 13a¥ YRy . ol who sturtedwith wo i