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

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Mt.—Spoclat Com- munteation this Corenuen at ii o'clock, to ‘atiend the Fee eee ao nemes. 3.” aomburn aca wnenexely Foquested tu necend. Be Be PAINE, We Me D.C. CREGIEM LODGE, No, tth Ay Fy & A. Mem Tho mombers of this lode are requested to: be press pus Bt our reguigr eominunlcation July 1; urgent: BSCS. BY Order OT CHAIULES B. SITTIG, 8, We WEDNESDAY, JULY ‘15, 1881, Wauyvev Mien and Judge Lapham are not jdeal candidates for the United States Senate, but they are ii ull respects more sult able men for a Republican Legistature to elect than Rostoe Cunkling aud one of his discivles would be... Ho resigned. on the dis- tinct issue of hostility to the Administration, and has held toit through all. his varying fortunes ever since, It would be a strange mark of esteem for a Republlenn Legislature to present the President on his recovery with his most maliguant eneny as one of the New York Senator: ‘Tin: Democrutle press on the whote has behaved remarkably well siuce the Prest- dent was shot, Nonowspaper hasapplanded the uct, and the leaders of the party, from deit Davis to ake P Blackburn, have been properly sympathetly, But itis evident that the strain is now getting severe on some of the Northern Democratle sheets, ‘The Lrest- dent Is tnproving, and itis thought he may tecaver. - Lt would be extremely awkward for any Democratic newspaper ta be on the record as having pratsed his churaeter or his public services, ‘The Garfield fund, if Ht ts raised and handed oyer, will afford them an admirable opportunity te recoup themselves for twa weeks of constrained decency, So in this way My. Cyrus We Field may be a benefactor to the Democratig press in gplte of Iihwself. —_—_— ‘Tue people of Chlengo who are remalning at homo this summer ought to find great con- solution and pleasure in the opportunity of hearing every night a superb orchestra, un- der the leadership of Theodore ‘Thomas, hn a tocale which unites shelter with the eaot lake breezes, and nf prices of 26 and 60cents, At Bn oxvenditure enormously below that. of & sojourn at any fashionable resort, and considerably less than that of o short trip to the country, tho stay-at-homes «In Chie cago can enjoy a succession of summer night entertainments such #8 no other lly or sunyner regort |i this country offers,— at once artlstie, refining, cvaling, and please urabie, ‘These ‘Thomas summer seasons should be made a permanent feature among the attractions of Chiengo uaa summer: re- sort, nnd they will become so 1€ the people of this clty understand thelr own interests and cowforts, und indulge themselves te the full- est extent In the dellghttul and inexpensive amusement whieh thoy offer. ——_—— Tr has been made asertous objection to tho election of Messrs, Miller and Lapham to the United States Senate by Yhe New York Lexistuture that their cloyation to the Senute would create yacancles in te Lower House that could not be Mllud until November, ‘Tho United Stutes statutes provide ng follows for vaciucles In tho Houses BHO. 20. Tho tie for holding election in Stute, District,.or Territory te n ranrenentatite deloyate to Hilla vacancy, whethor such yacuney Jacaused by w Sulluro to alyot ut tha thine pre- acribed by aw, or by tho diuth, realgnation, or fncapuclty of & person elcotul, may be pros scribed by tho juws'of thy several States wud Territurics, reapeutively. Tho New York statutes provide simply that vacancles shall bo filled on the day of the general State election, which sul! be tha fist Tuesday ii Noyember, Specht eleo- tions have, however, heen held without ox. pilelb authority of law on days other than. tho day of general election, and tho persons so Cleotad have beet admitted by Congress, David Dudley Field was so chosen dau. 2 1877, to Mt the vacanoy created by the res)e- nation of Smith Ely, dt, for the purpose of having counsy) en the door of the Honse In :tho Electoral slobates, It fx probable, how- ever, that a partisan. Clerk could take advan tage of tho <|rregularities In. the casa of Messrs, Miller and Lapham, If their suo. cessors should be chosen at any thus other than the general election-day, “But anecess, ore then inight easily be oleoted: the first ‘Tuosday In Noveiyber,and take thelr sents ly, December when Congress meets, ‘The objec- Hon on the whole'ls u trite strained, Sees Mu, Joun Gurgcoy canetinted hts tnat of forty-five doya yesterday, and now has abune dant lelsure da whleh to propound and an- swer that frutttul question, Cul bona? -It ld not concelyablo that he is himself butter off than he was wheu he began to abstaln from fogd, Hy has ved ow hia own tissues for a month and 9 half uf the expense of much bergayal iticonveulghes aud discomfort, not to way suffering, His selfdeutal has not been rewarded kn aity manner whatever, He has not been able ta oxtragt suplaueg or gym pathy Srow the people, wuch less ‘dollars, indeed ko far as we ayo able to judge from _eatrent expressions of oplulon concerning the frat, the only feeling excited by It has heen one of profound disgust. The priva- tions of the frster have caused no pity, be- cause they were self-inflicted tor sordid mo- tives. Nor enn It be sali that the fast has promotl In any degree whhtever the cause of sclence. It has revealed no facts that were tot known before, It has atiggested no new leas eithor in hygiene or thora- peuttcs, It has not even recelved the at- tention of the leading members of tho meilieal profession, who alone could give itn fleeting seluntific interest. ‘Tho chicf cause for rejoleing In view of this dismal perform. ance Is that lt has conte loan end, and next to that is the cireumstanco that it has been a complete financtal failure. No speentators In adipose tissue will be tempted to repeat the experlinent, and for this the community should be deeply grateful. If fasting” had paid as n profession it would svon have been ts overcrowded o3 the ranks of the long- aistance pedestrians, and fasting matches would have become as poplar frauds as walking tournaments once were, Some- thing has been galned at least, inasmuch ng “fasting? has now taken Its place distinctly ainong sporting events, and will never agaln be disguised under the thin pretense of au experhment in the interests of acteneo, A BOLTER AND MARPLOT, ‘The Albany dispatches stato that Conkling refuses tonbide by the Republican eancus and fnsists that he shall either be clected or the Legisiature shall adjourn without ming the vacancy, in order that the Democrats may gain the seat next fall through divisions In the Republican ranks fomented-and matn- talned by Lord Roscoe, Hule or ruin ts bis fixed purpose. It fs not usual for great nen to fallas Conkling has fallen in the direct Nne of dutles with whieh long expertence has made them thoroughly fauiillar. If thoy: fall at all the blow {s ordinarily dealt from a quarter whenes lenst expected. ‘The great man is surprised, thraava off his guard, and plerced fatally in the one werk spot in his character of the existence of which he may always have been aware, but of whieh the public titi! then remained’ in Ignorance. Conkling was so stricken by the Sprague wife seandaf, But he survived to the mar- vel of any, and this survival contributed anew to the common estimate of his great- nesa, Itwassatd: “Chis man is 60 great Intel- lectually, hie is so loved by the people of New York, that a very general conviction of his moral delinquency falls to shake his hold upon an assured lifgh position.” Doubtless Mr. Conkling shared this shallow opinion, ‘Dut it was a dangerous delusion, A serlous tafut upon the moral character of a public man cau never bo wiped out; It is cancer ous; It may be healed for a tine on the sur- faee, but tnwardly {ft corrodes and: polsons, And{l tho victim of this Insidious delusion fancies that he is unhurt he is apt to tempt fortune with new and still more dangerous yentttres, Strange to say, with the Sprague wife scandal enveloping him like an unwhole- soine fog, eartouned all over the country In “the hurnillating attitude of a fugitive fleeing before wn enraged husband with shotgdn in hand, the people of New York appeared. to indorse Roscoe Conkling! “Doubtless In his supreing. vanity and meastireless egotisin Conklug was betrayed Into the conviction that the appurent Indorsement was genuine and hearty.. But it was a vali deluston, ‘The voive of the people Was smothered by the loud nolse of the rumbling wheels of the political machine engineered by ConklIng’s henchinen, the little Bosses, Conkling's downward career dates from the political cyents which followed on tho heels of the Sprague wife scandal, Instead of being chastened and warned by his nar- row escapes from the rock of moral ruin, he was Inilated with an access of vanity through an abounding coufidence in the power of the spolls machine, Ie became more arrogant, more domlucerivg, more aggressive, Io quarreled more violently with President ayes’ Adiministration.. Conltiing’g claims to greatness gn statesman dave n6 record fo rest upon, is ho great as a politician ? On this point ha must be judged by the measure of his sticcess ns u leader from the time when the power of the Now York ma- chine over Ils followers began te weaken, At the. Chicago Convention he showed him- self great only In leading his faction to dis- nstrous defeat, In every tilt with his advar- saries ho was worsted. : ln small points of debate he was overcome by Frye ard Linle. On an Important Jsaue ho was utterly demol- {shed by Garfleid, In hie nomination speech he drove hls nudicnes Into the ranks of the opposition by mean insinuations and scora- ful Infiuendoes against his opponents, ‘Tho Inst act of Conkling’s career stamps hin as utterly eleficient In the matter of political Judgment, or, more properly, the ordinary Judgment of tho poilticlan,. Conk- lng resigned from the United States Senate beenuse the President declined to surrender to him a-coustituttonal prerogative of his oflee and the Senate refused to defeat tho coniirmation of Robertson,—an utterly in- adequate canes, But his Judgu.ent of men and thlgs was ao poor in this supreme mo- mentof his pubie career that he never en- tertaluad a doubt of his own triumphant re election ag n rebuke to the Senate qnd Prvsle. dent. Itis highly Improbable that there {3 a single promlnent public ingn in the country, ‘hs opinion belng asked on ‘Corfkling’s con- templated act of resignation, who would not have warned him of. its almost tnevitably fatal effect upon his poiitieal carcer, Ina word, thoro Is not © prominent pollticlan In the country whose soundness of judgment of mun and things ty not fur superior to that. of Roscoa Conkling. Where, then, are the evidences of this man’s greatness 2 Ue is not morally great; the Sprague wife suandal bantahed that Mlusion. Mele not a great stateamun; the records of Congress show vo signs of his gentus for creative legistation, He ts nota wise politician; in tho pressing omergencius of hls political career his judgment has boon signally at fault. Stripped of the ninsk of the political spollé machine, robved of the disguises he has worn, tho real character of Roscoo Conk- Ing stands exposed ns ogotistleal, scorntul, envious, god nialignant, and, ng all - such characters are, it-balancen In the extreme, REDUCTION OF RAILROAD PASSENGER BATES, i 2 War af every kind fins always been sup- posed to be destructive and devastating jn Its nature, Even tho yietors, ag 0 rule, come out of the struggle badly cut up and waak- ened, While the vanquished are utterly pros trate and disabled, But -raltway wars scom to be an exception to this order of Ungs, ‘Tho rallrund ‘corporations spasmodically Junge ut each other, cut each other's throats, shoot and mangle eugh other in the most desperate and savage style, and all parties come outot these contests smillng and ap- parently refreshed from the. exercise, and kenvrally ready to make war auew upon the allgltest provocation, The Eustern trunk rallronds haya just entered upon one of thelr occasloyal cut-rite strugles on pas- sunger fares, ‘The war bogan over the freight buslucas, and’ the eust-bound roads, after ciitting rutes covertly fur thue, set Jed down to 15 cents a hundred pounds ons grain from Chicago to the ava- board as about the -bottom price. Now they have begun vlaughtering the passenger rates. About &5 have heen lopped of from the through rates from New York to Western points, and substantially 80 or 810 from Boston to the West, ‘The railroad inanagera are now engaged In charging the responsibility for this cut-under upon ench other,—n process of crimination aud recrim|- nation which is pretty sure to engender Ine erensed bitterness, and which may tend to a reduction of the fare between Chicago and New York to $10, which is about one cento infle, As usual, some timid people will appre- hend a@ general smash-up of the value of rallrond stocks from a continuation of this sort of thing, ‘They will imagine that the railroads must necvssarily lose enormous suns of monoy, that they.will be compelled to pass thelr dividends ag n consequence, and tha€ prices of stocks will go to fileces, Noth- ing of the kind will happen. The “war? It it last sovernl montis, will not be as: costly to tho railroads ax one severo snotv-storm fu winter or a spring freshet, that washes away bridges and Interrupts travel. In fact, it fs not impossible that the longer the rall- roads fight tho batter will be tholr fnanctal condition, ‘They rarely fight so desperately that rates are put down fower than a paying basis, and when they do a compromise and restoration are svun brought about. Sean- while, ‘however, the low rates attract so much additiunal travel and business, fm- posing but slight additional cost upon the rond except that of lucrensed fuel necessary to hnul heavily-Inden cars instead of empty ones, that the railroads often make more monyy in the cut-rate war than they doina condition of tntversal peace and high rates, It $s'so evident that low passenger rates create additional travel ina Inrger propor- tion than the reduction of fares to any level not below that of mere cost that it fs an onigma why raltrond ‘managers matntatn for the greater portion of the year double prices for carrying people. It is simply absurd = to contend — that, while 100, pounds of: grain can, be hauled between Chicago and ‘New York for Ucents atu profit, its worth $20, or 133 tines 23 much, to carry only double that welghtin men and trunks, The price for earrylnug 200 pounds of corn to New York ts BWeents. ‘There ts small danger of the rail- roads injuring themselves by carrying the sane weight of flesh, bones, and band oxes for 315, or $10, or even less. ‘fhe small dif- ference !n the cost of cars and ite amount of fuel consimed in greater speed of passenger trains wilt not amount to anything Hke this enormous difference in terms, When the passenger rates are lowered to an attractive level travelers will spring. up as rapidly and numerously as If Cadinus were suwing seeds from the coweatcher of a modern locomotive. Men then leok up pre- texts for going on Journeys who, before sought excuses for staylng at hone. The farmers suddenly evince n desire to gee the rgrent cities, Those who would otherwise travel ntous take their families with then, When 0 paterfamilias enn take htmself, his wife, and daughter to New York for 30, where ft would previously havo vost him two- thirds a8 much te go alone, the railroad gains three passengers on the lower scale where it would have had none on the higher. Excursioné are inade tp, and money by the thousands Is put in elrcutation In the great eltles and popular resorts which would othorwise have been hourded. It is strange that the railroad managers have not learned from their experience with reduced rates for frelght the obylous advantage and increased profits: that awalt a shuilar treatment of the passunger rates permanently Instead of spns- modicully, convictions, Indeed, there will be no mora © Conkiing then” of high or low dogree after Lortt Roscoe is out of pollttes, Mr. Wheeler nover has been a “Conkling man,” and he fs certainty anable, dignified, upright mann higher type of tho statesman than New York has had in the Senate at any thine since Conk- ling has represented that State, Grant and Wheeler would bo entirely acceptable ta the country, ntid the antl-Conkling met ought to agree to thom If tho Conkling nen wil. there: tpon abaAdon their obstinate and porildious fight, ~ ' GUITEAU AND THE SPOILS SYSTEM, a Washington dispatelh to Conkilug's Chl- cago organ states that “There js goo ren- son to bellevo that should the President ro- cover, ng secing: probable, the Government will chooso to consider Gulteau itisane, and will procure hig Incarceration In the Govern ment Hospltal for the Angane, just outside of Washington, for life.” The wishJs father to this thought. Locking ten whose sanity lias assumed disagreeable forms fn Insane asylums fs na trick often resorted to by friends of the victim. ‘The purpose of such Incarceration fy frequeitly to obtuin control of the alleged insane person’s estate. : In tho ‘present instance a declaration of Gulteat’s Insanity would remove many diMeculties from the path‘of a class of polittelans. 16 Guiteau is Insane his déchirattons touching the cause of his avt are invaningless; but if he 1s sano thoy possess great signiticauceand may lead to sweeping reforms, . Lf he is Insane his ugsertion that he slot the President to heal the diviston in the ranks of the Repub- lean party.is only a crazy, polntices uttar- ance; but if he issane it tends strongly to Attract tho popular sympathy to tho side of the President In the late controversy, and so. to brenk down the nnjust opposition to him. If he Is insane the fact thathe shut the Prest- dent because he was refused an ofiice is totally without signilicance. The act ofa erazy man could not be cited as evidence of the fauttiness of a certain political practice. It could not be sald that the spoils system was a disgrace to thaconntry merely becauso alunatic was moved by disappointment to shoot to death the dispenser of patronage. But if Guiteau fs sane his act takes on a very dliferent color, In the light of it the spoils system 13. exhibited in. tts: most hldcous aspect; 1b points the odidus in Itself, It becomes supremely odious as the direct causo of an act of al- most unparalleled atrocity, Tho flash of the would-be assasin’s pistol, discharged to punish the President for declining to glve hiin an office, reveals the spoils system as a menaciig horror, involving not merely the shame and disgrace of the country, but lend- Ing up to the murder of the Nation’s Execu- view of a scientific and authoritative declara- tlon of Gultenu's sanity. If Guiteau is sane hig murderous act was an effort to’ heal the dlviston in the Ltepubilean party on tho basis of making the spolis system Its corner-stone; if he is sane other sane inen are ikely to seek revense on other Prestdents for attempt- Ing to break away from the tramuuels of the spoils system, Tho ruling of a court and the verdict of 2 Jury that Gulteau 13 a sane mau will Inevitably constitute the deuth- blow of the spolls system. If it‘canongonder such devilish malignity the people will dig {t up rout and branch,—oxtirpate it utterly from tho administration of the Government, ‘Tiils Is tho reagon of the frantic demand of spoilsmen that Gultean shall be declared in- sane and shut up Inan asylum “for life.” ‘They want'to brand him “crazy” in order that tho way may be paved for the resurrec- tlon of the spoils systent. It isnot“ probable”-that “the Government will choose to ¢onslder” anything about Guiteau’s mental condition, He is already within the clutehes of the law, and It will Bo left to the Jaw to adjudge his case, © Lt would dotbtless be merciful to find Gulteau Insane, but the question ig not one of mercy, but of Justive. IL is somewhat remarkable that an organ can be found so debauched by tho spoils system as.lo be capable, while tho President’s life still trembles in the balance, of a suggestion of mercy rather than of jus-. tice for ils would-be assasin, The disgulse of proposing that Guiteau shall be Incarcer- ated In an insane hospital “for Nfs” is transparent. The purbeso Is plain,—to litt the spoils system from the mire into which ithas been plunged by Guiteau’s murderous act. THE DEADLOCK AT. ALBANY, ‘There Is no doubt that the demands of the Conkling Spoils Bucks at Albany for a new Repuollean cnticus {3 altogether unreasona- ble, ‘Tho caucus at which Messrs. Miller and - Lapham were recently nominated was called by sixty-five Republican mombers of the Leg- Islature, constituting nearly two-thirds of the Republican membership in, that” body, ‘The holding of this caucus became a matter of noturlety because the call was In elreulne ton several days before the desired number of signatures were obtained. More. than tis, personal Invitations were sent to all the Jtepublican members who had not joined in tho ‘call, and the “Bucks” were urgently sollelted to put Inan appearance and contend for thelr rights, Ind they.done so It is-en- tirely probable that they wowld have been able, though In the minority, to govern the selection of candidates, always excluding Conkling. But thelr “lord and master would not permit them to attend. ‘Tho Chairman of the Cauens Connuittes ts also right, . without” doubt,; when he anys that the authority for calling 2 caucus Was taken out of the Iinnds of his Counnittes by a higher power—viz.; the Joint netion of about two-thirds of tho Republican munbers, who hold thelrcaucus and thereby sttperasded the ‘Conmittee, It Is also highly probable that the present demand of tho “Buck? jiembers for a new cauets was ninde under the conviction that Just such on answer would be returned to them, and with tho ex- press ptrpose of using. the dental as an exe. cuse for prolonging thelr policy of obstruction in tho Interest of a candidate who eannot possibly be elected undor any elveuinstinces, Admitting all this, ‘lie Trinvss is novere theless of tho opinion that tho antl-Conkling and antl-uuchine Republicans should yield oven beyond reason and justlee to the oxne- tons of tho Bucks, In order that the latter may be deprived of gs inuch ag a shadow of pretext for prolonging the contestor adjourn- ing without an olectlon. 1f the Conkling men who now ask fora new caucus make thelr domand In-good faith, and will attend such acbnferenes and nbide by Its decision, then, in Heaven's name, give them still another chance, Atter such a concession, It {s nobensy to comprehend that etn Conk- ing’s abject slaves will be able any longer to oppose the elaction of two Republicans who shall thus be selected. The proceoling may prove to"be an Injustice to Messrs, Lapham and Millor, but the exigency Is one which requires personnl sacrifices, Mr, Depew mado the most stubborn fight agalnst the Conkling factlon, and for several weeks care riod the burden of the struggle, and yet ho retired when he camo to the conclusion that his name would be an obstruction. Messra, Lapham and Miller can afford to do the same J€ tt shall become essential to the ine torcats of the Republican party‘and the coun- try, Itdoes not follow by any means, how: vor, that 9 now conference would result in droppmg tho candidates who have been se lected, Ifthe Conkling wen-go Into caucus they willbe bound by its degiston, and the alxty-odd mon now voting for Lapham and Miler may carry thom through, if they so desire, 3 a Jt is sald that tho Bucks” huve settled down pon Grant and Wheeler as the only candidutes for whom they will givo. up Conk- ing. St fs certainly very yoxatious to per init a small faction to bully a two-thirds ma- Jority in such fashion, but the anti-machine woncan afford to submit evento the coudl tlon of allowing the Bucks to dictate both notlnations, If that fs the only way In which Conkling can be porsonalty elluitnated from politica. ‘The end will Justify the means, Besitos, Messrs. Graut and Wheeler would make vory creditable and satistactory repre- sentatives of the great State of New York In the United States Senate, Grant would not bese much of a Conkling man after becom as that of Cuba, though largely exceeding ‘It lng a United States Senator ashe hasbeen inarea. 1t will produce in great abundance heretofore, He would undoubtedly serve , uot only sugar and tobacco vf the finest A VA8L LAND S0HEME. Sometime slnce-referenco was made In these columns to ‘the proposal of sbvernt skillful enzinoers to lower Lake Okeechobeo and thereby recinim soins cight million acerca of swamp-lands in the central and southern parts of Florida, known on the map asthe “ Evergiodes,” and transform them Into rich and produetive soll, As willbe scen by an article alsewhere, the projectors of tis colas- gal scheme hive not been idle in the interim, 'Lhelr enginoors have been over the ground and contirmed the Government’ aurveys. ‘Thelr dredges and laborers ary on the way to TMorlda, and ft ts contdently anticipated that In fifteen months’ tine'the arent work will have been uccomplisted, and the present marshy and hummocky everglades will bo formed ito a rich and frulttil territory, more productive than any similar area of soil in this country, as i ty below the frost line, With tha gouoral character of. this region our renders are supposed to bo familiar, ‘Tho nko whieh {t Is proposed to lower Is the natural reservolr of its waters, Its prinelpal foedor being the Kisslmmco River, which, Lt Ig estimated, pours Into It dally 207,100,000 cubic fect of water, In the ordinary seasons tho luke fuyol ls lowered suMlcinntly so that the outl ying area Is available for rich pasture age, but during nearly one-half of the year these marsiy tracts are overilowed both by the rise In the luke and by the consequent backing up of the water In ts feedora, ‘The purpose of tha company Is to permanently Jower the water of the lake, which Is twenty- five fevt above the acean level, by cutting a dralnago canal twonty-one miles In length tothe St, Lucta, River, also by building second canal from the lake to the Calonsna- hutchle River, which, flows into the Gulf of Moxted, aud also ta widen and deevon the strenins which ethpty into tie lake, and to dain the remotest parts of the. averglades with tateral ditchog,-,.. ‘The total amount of territory which {t Is thus intended to reclalm is bout 8,000,000 neres, one-half of which, under the terms of the contract, will go to tha company per forming the work, Apart from the hand» some profit which will accrue to the con: pany and the features jot tho work as an ine stance of the woudesd of modern engineers tug skill, the future of that part of the State of Florida is a, pleasant subject to. contem- plate, . The * land of flowers” already bears an enyfable reputation a8 aparadiseof frults, but should this arph be successfully ro claimed, cecupying agjt does fully one-balt the. area of tho State, Its produativity will be lmmeuse}y!.. enhanced, ‘'as | {t is by for the <apiest . Valyable part, It is, as wo have sald, below the frost-line, so that no harm frow, that sours can ever enriched by the acefimulations ‘from. overs flows, and is of tha same general. character 13, the State and the people according to hts own” murderous deed; | tlve! Well may the spolls faction tremble In” conie to the crops. Hs soll has been greatly ' 1881--TWELVE PAGES. frtendloss and inexperienced sound nen from the West. ¥o tho repartor wild ho would try to keen up with Uto proceaston, und went away. Whon he got lo the hurso-ravo hemota great ming athor reportorsy ong of whom wax from Hoston. This reporter was vury cultura, but ha ditu't know a aeatnlng-dovt from nn overtioat-cheeks and Unt is rally the kind ofeniture that s man noeds when ho ts writing abouts hozee-rvs. ‘he Boston roportor was vory klad to tho Chicayu reporter and told Lins whata gront city Moston was and how smart a young tan had to be befure ho contd fucomo & reporter thoray and the Chieago reporter look another chow of plug tobacco and winked to himself, ‘The B ixton repurtor usked tho Chicago reporter iC be liad read Kimersun's works, ond tho Chicago reporter. tald bo badn't—he hind scan “Linatore.” ‘Then the fuston. reporter antd: “Really, younmonish rue.” and wont amy lo drink some Deep luck wator nnd amoke 8 clanrete hon the Chicagu reporter laughed heartily, und sald In tho reckless Wabash aventio way: “1 wonder Af that duck thinks nm aauckor that he can play on tho ond of un atring ? Lehoutd twitter that he will xot foft if ho does.” - do he hunted up threo other reporters and. sald to. themt Lots paralyee that awk from Boston.” ‘ho other reporters wore willing, ud an’ thoy all wrote vury lung xcoounts of tho racos, Rolin right from the track to tho tologravh oftice, but the Bostun repurter hho wont tu his hotel and had supper, od then he went to bia rooms, tolting tho clork to send Wo a tnessengzare boy about midnight. Whentho boy camo the Bos.on reporter xave him along dispatch, but wuon It reached the telegraph oftica there waaso much other matter of It that thy wires wero blockadud until 4 o'clock In the morning, and by that the tt wns too Into to get a dispatch tu Moston tn tne Mir the paper, From" An Baditor's Lutes Jur Little Folie,” by Murat Halstead, . ‘The dew of the evening gama down 0 “quality, but all the tropical fruits, such as ranges, lemons, bananas, and placapples, ‘€3 Well ag the fibrous plants, of a quality kAhul to ‘those In the West Lndles, aud, ns they will mature perfeetly and can easily relich tie North by quick railrond trans- portation, thera Is no reason why our mar- kets should tot be supplied with them In the hinhenst stte of perfection, 1b Is peculiarly” srattlytig that this grewt work will bo the product of Northern skill, enferprise, and capital, ns It eannot but lave, a benelicent influence tn furtherIng othor schomes for Southorn development. 2 ———e — ‘Tim Increased provalcned of malaria in Now tiigliid bas oxulted the dttontion of the hotolktepers tu that section, who aro tonth to admit tt, but eannot deny that {t {s so, Tho krowtnof minsina Ina cexion which {9 Inrgcly inountalnons and almost wholly, high and dry, well settles, and: clearer and cultivated for many yours, pute at doflanee ail tho recognizod principles of the medtea} profession with votcr- ence to malaria. In reply to inquiries on tho aubject, Dr. Paul A. Chadbourne, who bas bean @ looturer lo medina as well as indlviuity, enys that ho ts Iiclinod to modify his. orovious impressions coucerning ‘tho origin of malarin, ‘Tho loxt-books und most of the authoritios tench thut It wrises from tho decomposition of vexotable substances, and that such decompu- sition is promoted by an abundance of water, De. Chadbourne observes that thls |, ee ee rite ae et ned alr, explanation does not xecount fur tho ‘Atid'rested un reat ag a crown. orsiatones of inalarin In the’ Rocky ‘Yharo was poace jn tho hnze on tho but Mountain regiens, which nro usunily dry. norin New England, whieh, a priori, would bo thought tikely to bo entirely freo. frmin Sts ints ences, The fact ts, that decomposition 1s not husténed, but. dolaycd, by a constant and suf- ctont supply of water, Alternate dryness and. molsture, on the contrary, assists decny, Vouxo- tublo substances that nro kept entirely under wator last tor years; whilo those thit are dried and sonked nt Irregutar tntervuls rapidly fall In pieces, This observation docs not, is Dr. Chnds bourne admits, account for tho provitlonce of malaria in Now England at this time ratnor than ut any other tle. Hu ts totully unable to uccount fur the sudden, anpeurdnee uf mina ‘ln that section, and betleves no medical opinion on that point is wortha rush, Sv farashe can Judge, it isn phenomenon ug inexplicable as tho epizoitic among the horaes, or the Toxus cuttle disease, whieh was communicated from antmils npparentiy healthy to others that wore equully so. The march uf malaria at prese antscoms to be ina, northerly and casterly dle rection, so that {t muy bo expected ‘soon to Hind | uw lodgment among the Canadiuasin New Bruns- wicks and Nova Scotia, mw Of Hig Fil ihe wir wus nilonty With a chirp, and a song, ond 8 trill, Though sho passat Jona nzo. from my mind, Though sho ltt ine in sadness behind, Bho camu back to me true in the fall of tho dew, Onca nunin gue nmuctions to bind, —Poet Who Was Nut Ported. ‘Thodirl from the country camo down Wither Keokuk bonnet and gowns Front her lowa lair ato come in ona “tears “Mamma sild L must seo the bull town.” ‘Thoro was cronin in tho freozor a0 clean, And u girl at tho table, I ween, y 8be grabbed tho sponga-oako likow patent stcam rake, ! And tho pilt would hnve ‘staggered Jim Keene. . ‘Though sho's gono back to Keokuk now, ‘Though with teo-cream sho's Mlled up some- how, . She'll como back {n the fall aud for fried oystora cul e But 1'll then bo In far-om Moscow, —Youny Man Who Has Been There. —————— PUBLIC OPINION. Now York Tribune (Rep.): While the lan- guage of tho Now York statute dovs not seem toolfer any authority for special cloctions of Congressmen on any othor day than‘on that of the goncral olection, It tau fuct that such alec tons have boon held. David Dudley Field was clovted u member of tho Forty-fourth Congress on tho2d of January, 187% to tll the vacnnuy cuused by tho resignation of Sraith Ely, dr. and {n 1859, whe the law roferrod to, bolng one of 1817, was fn force, Thomas J. Birr was elected to tho ‘Thirty-sixth Canuress ta pluco of Jobn Rolly, resigned. ‘tho cuse of Waldu Etching, mentioned at Alvauy, was not a parallel, as ho wus choyen at a special election held“ ou the gunoral vlection-day, ft would ensy, in case of the election of Slossrs, Lapbim “and ‘Miller us Senators, to authorize. spealat oleae Uons of Congressmen to “tll yucaualcs when over the Governor uball doom them necessary. Sprlugfeld Reptbltean’ (Ind); Least sensible of al) tho suggestions brought aut by ‘tho agenalnation is tho ory for 4 guard about the Presitent. Guards never. protected any mao, and tho pist six mouths, which have scen tho Czar of Ituasiaund tho Prosldent of tho United Brates struck down, one guarded day and night, the other sleeping without a policeman In bis house, prove tiow little guards bave to do with sofoty. Premler Perceval wits struck down eev- enty yeurs ayo ay @ inndman; but Eogtish Freiniora continued to live as simple private altizens and nono has beao killed since, Nor need nny future President fear anything, but the assault of suine mudinan, atch an one 48 has just narrowly uscaped securing a new victin: in crotnry Bluine, and protecdon against tho exnuing of madmen is to be found in junatlo Savlume, notin a body-guard. It will ‘bo a Bad mistake If tho slinpla and Jmpressive fifo of a President, preserved fur a century, 1a wuctifiided for proteation whion dues sot protect. ° Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald: No President since the Wur bas su gained on the good feeling of tho Southern people-as Prosident Gariuld, ‘While bo belongs to a party that fs not popular in tho South, it is adinitted on all: bunds that bo ds uoting justly and Coirly by this section, and ta anxfous to secure the commendation of the Southern peopla. Laying all wretched party fooling aaide in this time of National disaster, tho Southern poopie hopo and trust that his yaluablo Ufo will bo saved, Tho attempt to assasinute a Prealiont of the United States ls horrible; the attueuss of such wn Attempt would cover our eltizens with grief and wil thom with tho wloom- lust forebodiigs. How tlines change, and men onnge with thom!) If, 6x months uga, one bad told the Southern peuple that by this ume thoy would be prayiig und hoping for the: life of dames A. Gurtield, thoy would never bave bo- Hoved it. Now tho first expression one bears ou greoting a follow-citizon is, “LE trust to God bo inuy live." No name is mentioned, for all aro thinking of the putlent martyr in tho White House. The Southern hourt ts ilrad no more: it ia wrung with sympathy, It.praya that tho Pree ident fs stulwurt onough to live! % New York Times (Rep.): Mr. Frauk Hurd, the Ohio Congresammay, is matting trouble for the Democrats of his Stato by fnaleting that. they stall stand by the avowed prinoiplesof their Nutlonal Conventions and reatliras" fredtrade, ora turif for revenue only, ‘Mr, Hurd, though acomparutively young mun, is an old Demo-, erat, und has always beon fulthful-to the policy and purpose of bis party as he understands them. Hobastmuch moro than usual ability, which has boon ucknowlodged in Congress, whoro bo enjoys the respeot of bls oppononte as well us the Feapect {uifugted with a little dread) of bis purty frionds. But hole a very. incou- venlout min to bave aboutin a DamocratioCon-, yention tu Oblo Just at this moment, itis aup- posed by the Deinvcratlc managers thoro that thore ts enough discontent with Republicans, and enough reaction trom the oxoltement o! ist your, to seouru n vietory for the Dumucrats provided thoy ciface nll distinctive churacterlie lcs and present thomsolves siinply as "the cP. pesttion.' Hur Mr. Hurd ridicules this tubby notion of ‘paliticul duty and polittenl oppartunt-, ty, and dealnres that unless the Democracy «ros turn to thelr principles “it will surely die, as it ought,” ‘This is bonltby talk, and the more of It wo havo in olthor party In any Stuto at any time tho better tho chances of a sound political life for this puliticiuneridden countrys A Clovelund £eratd: It Is stated upon the authority of the Uhiof of Folica that there aro to-day in the City of Cluveland at lenat 5,000 young mon who are in tho bablt of carrying a rovolvor, Tho polica bhuvo taken reyolyors of thirty-two or forty-two vallbre from youngsters scarce in thelr teens. Noarly elght out of. the ten young men arrested and brought to the Centra! Station have beon found carrying ‘a: re- vyolvor, Therolsuota woek goes by but that parties have attempted to ahvot each otter in soe portion of the ality, -'‘Tho men come up, are fined and .suntenced, and the Ianguid publie avarcoly. notes the occurrence, -Oconalonully an attempt is snade on the life of soma prominent elttzen, and momentarily the public arouses itr ecif trom its lothurgy, but itis only for A wos ment, ‘Tho police discovered that a number of children at the St, Clair School were In the babit OF firing a toy pistol, with a blank cartridgy, ‘Upon oxumination it was found that if any metallic substutce had beon placed in the barrel thore was powdor auiliviont to drive it Into tho brain of avy of the ttle ones at whom ft might havo buunt almed, The attention of tha Follco Cummiasioncra was cusied to the fucts and they brought the matter befura the City Soligitor, lia gave bis oplaion to tho effect that to force auy peraon to stop the ealo of tho weapon, would bau yunsgression of the laws of trade, aud 69 nothing was done, » Speating of the contingenctes before the country, owlng to the attempted nasasination of tho Prosident, the New York Financial Chronicis suys: “Thera appears to be amall opportunity for disturbing the presont satisfactory business conditions, Nothing of {mportunce remains to be done about funding, and every other tasue. that haa been in doubt during late yoars scoma 80 absolutely sctiled as to be beyond dlgoussion for tha time belng. ‘The only exception to. this statement the silver question, and op that polut, ig.case of! such a/chango, there would reagonably be some enxlcty because of the closo relationship existing between the Nevada Ben- ator andthe Vice-President, Still, that lesuo bas now become so alimple, and the duty of the United States a0 piuln, that little fear need bo ommmnn tense, of wien bo bus & large utovke t0 ty 4 Youd’ him tent. {tis also. not unlikely that'n certain well-knowa Now York banker would, in case Mr, Arthur was Prosidcut, be at tho head of the Treusury Pepartmapts and if 60, bis opinions ure oledr and pronounced on the sub- ject referred to, and ‘would evidently be fale We meauion these clroumstances be- cause it la stilt, of course, posalbly that the Prealdent may not recover, and in that caso uch suggestions may bo of use,” ——<——————_— Tus New York Hour digs up the follow. {n 1871 thora raged o bittor contest among American medical wuthoritics over u vewotnbie drug culled cundurango. It was ‘nileged by ite udvucutes that it hid specitic virtues In cases of cancer, On the other hund, most’ of the phar- Madlats of the country ridiculed it as inert aud valucioss, AN ut once sprang to ita support with yebemence, and, it must be ndded, with virulonce nig, 2 Dr, 2. W. Bliss, of Washington, rv Biss untuunced that ho hud troutud tho mothor-)n-[nw of Vico-PreaidentSebuyter Coltux with cundurinyo for a well-developed cuncer of the broust, She was qu ckly cured, ns supposed, and, according to Dr. Biss, the rapid extirpae tion of tho cuucor was due to cundurango and to nothing else. [She avon ufter diod of canver owevor,) lu the heated controversy which followed, Dr. Biles was rather hurd bit by some of his confrerea, und whon tho Stute Depurtinent afterward issucd 2 olreulur commanding alt American Cotsuls In Europe to promulgate the Virtues of cundurango ug a cancer-cure, &@ good Miuny medical men were unkind enough to call Dr. Bilsan “quack, Itseoms hardly posslbto thattho Dr. D. W. Bliss intrusted with the Pros- dent's life can be the Dr. D. W. Bliss who, in 1871, was publicty dequunced: by bis brethren as abumbug aud a churlutan, ——S= Secretary Winvos: fy quoted as saying: Nothing, to my mind, cohveys ao realizing « senso of tha grent National catuniity as the tact thut for nearly one whole week the ofllvesceker restrained bitnself, und tor the thine being abans doned bis requost for office, Thyt rovenled to me vw aublimity of private self-denial under tho presence of 4 rout public sorrow which I woutd waver have discovered or bulleved under mny othor cireumstunces: and {t shuwod better than overything gtse how deoply tho souly of men wore stirred, ‘But it is not ikely to Inst. ‘Tho officesocker is abroad aguin, and be uppears to have lost nothing of “bly pertinacity vr vigor, When I was at the White House un bour or two. ayo thoy wera setting up nt now npparutus do- figned to cool the atmosphere. Litsked Swaim how covl the rou could ve mado, and ho sulds “As ‘cool ns; you plouse.” L nsked tim It he thought a roum could bo mude av cool that ot- iiceseekers would keov out of it, and he reptled that be chought it might. ‘Then 1 wsked him to send over bulf a dozen uf his machines to bo Bet up iu my olfice, —————_—— “Tue Indianapolls Journat suggests tho folluwing questionato be put to applicants for foreign appolntimonts: 3. Hus this man the slightest {dea of the duties of the ollice be applies tor, or in what partof tho wortd his otticlal rusidence would bu? 2. Have his neighbors algncd bia testimoninis from an curneat desiro to get rid of bln by sond- Ing bim whruad, aa a joke, or from unv kuowl- edyo of tho dutios of the atlice bo wants? ¥. Ta he, or Is be not, played nut at home? 4 4. lus ha shown noy speetul competency for {orsign alfairs by attending to bls own at Omit - ri el 5. How much of bis importanco!s due to nows- Papor puts at 10 cents a line? 6, Is it in accardunce with. National comity to turn auch a man toose among Unprotected fore oignors not understanding his language? je Ig bo the typical Americano tue State Dow Beccmenr ahaa send 43 8 sauiplo to v foreign country ‘ 8, Did he carry Indiana? , ———— Joux Swintoy exhibits a commendadia desire to know whose body it Was tht Prof, Welss drod “Hritlsh bulluog butters" Into. Moro persons than John Swinton onve boon curlousun that polnt. Tho cadaver, it Js proba- ble, would have objected, If be could have been consulted. Prof. Welysimny aay that whoever might baye been tho proprietor of tut particu. lar tenement of ctuy Inn state of mituro, It was hia when ho fred *bultdoy” bullets inte tt, Ho hud bought it, and paid for it—perhaps as much a8 $15, ' ‘Tue Now York World is disposed to join thoso who are urging tho adoption of Clvil- Sorvicu ruform, {t says: . . Tho administration of tho spolls now cone suings so inch of the tine and enorey, of our fue men that they bavy no timo toft for any. ‘hing olao, No mombor of Congress really bua inueh opportunity to think evel of orber things after bu has attonded to the daily written or oral applications of bis constituents for oilice, TE he hegivots to attend to the “epatls” his cas, reer us & Congressman will bu brict, : CO ——— ‘Tie awful and wonderful amount of leg oxhibited by young: Indies up to 1 fs boing so- veroly animadverted on tn London. ‘Tho Froieh gall tho fasblon mode a ta valet de pled, because luckoys alone display the shape of thelr lox to tho kneo, The young Princesse of Wales do not adopt the proyalling moac, Tholr drcagos reuch Just above the ankle. ‘2 Ce eee” PERSONALS, ‘Tho Mikado of Japan fs to have a new pal- Aco at Yeddo which will cost $5,000,000, Biko has ovidently bad some Amvrican contractors Hguring on tho Jub, Wo haye reculved a charming Iittle book ontittod * Smith on the Horgo’s uot." If Smith ‘bnd boon on the mulo’s foot, ho would novor have written this book, — - # ‘Threo of this’ year’s’ graduating olass at Yale Collego have solomaly aunouncod thelr ine tentlon of becoming Journulists, Mossra, Dans, Hulsteud, und Rennete should wetroady to move, > When the children of Mrs, Betsey Perkins, of Taunton, STass,, eurprised her on bor 100th birthday, she. showed bor appreciation of their atfuction by glving euch of them $1,000 bond, Both the bonda and tho old lady were at par, * «Tho Hons William Walter Phelps, Minister to Austria, lately bud hie first oMclul audience with the Emperor, recoded: by his jacgor in cream-colored livery and headgear of white plumes, Me, Phelps was csvortod through many. corridors and salons of the palace, the way Noed with bowing luckeys. .At inst. ina Intty salon destiq{ute of furolture he was presented to Fruncls Joseph, who was dressed in full unite orm, Emjerot and Minlator oxchanged courts ly salutadobe, and then held a conversation in FBrench—a-'oouversation cordial and compll- qentary,; Hows the most profound concluded the nos, aod the Mluister retired as be had conte, thrjugh the Janes of saluting attoudante, Once 'a Chicago editor sent a wild and uny tutored san of the West, who wore bis balr short and chewed plug to! to an Bastera city to reporta big horse-race. Borers is eporter went sway, the editor told him tg lOok sharp wheu be got tothe horew-race, because there would bes lot of awiully scans) reporters thare from New York’ and Boston, und je would bg grval sport for thsih to "scoop" J The Attorney-General Decides! that a Silver Dollar Isa! Dollar, WASHINGTON, Commissioner Dudicy Chopping’ OWF the Heads of Penston Clerks, Giroular of the Treasury Dopartment Re. garding National Banks— , Bonds, Eto. TUE SILVER DOLLAR, Bpeetac Lnspatch to The Chiego Tribune, Wasutxortos, D. C,, duly t—The Aton ney-General hay deelded that a aver doflur Isadollar, ‘The question came up-retative to the redemptton of Natlonal-bank note, ‘The United Stutes Treasurer desired a cone struction of tha Jaw witiel which requires lil, {n terms, to redeem National-bank notes | tu fegal-tender notes, {le wished an opinion from the Attorney-General, under which he might act, as he did not feel authorized to construc the law to moan that he could re deem National-bant notes in silver dollars, although «they have beet inne legal. tender for all purposes. ‘Tho At torney-General replies thnt the laws: have made the silver dollar a legalstender for all purposes, and ‘that thoy area dollar for all purposes, and that’ the Silver-Duyllar Jaw repeils the spectiie hinguuze of the Ie dtamptton nw, whieh requires Nattonal-bank notes to be redeomed In legal-tender, to the extent that the Sllver-Doltaract placed silver dollars on an equality. with any legal-tender money, and that It was ty be presumed: that Navional-hank notes could not. be redeented Ingold. It has not. however, been the cum tom to red then In gold, on recount of the technical language of the ltw, but, by the decision of the fiurnes General tonday, gold und silyee and United States notes are put upon. an equality, The receinpilon cheeks of the ‘Treasurer, which hitherto tase rend, “Redeemable ar payable In United States notes,” now read, “Payable ins many dollars,” . DUDLEY’S AX. ‘ Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, + Wasixetoy, D.C., July 1%.—Col. Dudiey, Commissioner of Penstons, lias completed the work: of cutting down the force in his deparinent, and sent the list to Secretary Kirkwood. He recommends the disnitssal of about 100 clerks, and reduces the salaryof some sixty more, thus bringing the expenses of hisoftics within the appropriation, It hay been a work of great diMeuity, taking the entire time of the Vununisstoner for tne past ten dnys. Laat week he -worked into the small hours overy night, until his Deputy ‘ aud other - assistants found the com bined “strain upon - them was too much, and they begged to be | let , off. In reducing the foree, the Commissioner hag endeavored todo noone Injustice, He first suught out tho Inefficlent, cutting them all off, regardless of their political backing or length of service. He then inquired tute the history of crch clerk remaining, ascers taining who hed others dependent upon them, that ho might disiniss’ no competent person havime to support faniiies or friends, Soldiers, and especially wounded soldiers, , jaye been preferred, and {n every instance where It was possible, transfers of good inen not soldiers have been recommended, Persons conversant with the methods ;| and means adapted by Col.. Dudley are of opinion that no one could be more thorough or consolentious {n the perforn- anee of so delicate and difficult a task. His only purpose seems to have been to reduce tha expenses of the ollice within the appro: priation, and, in doing so, to enuse: the least suffering on the part of those dismissed, By discharging 150 clerks ho might ‘have rc complished his purpose, but -he-took the more humane way of reducing salaries, and thus saving a8 many as possible. After such . wholesale elemination there no room, = of course, new appointments, and none nade, A gentleman who has beon inthe * city for two mouths, expecting a place as goon as Cal. Dudiey became, Commissionor, was told by him, to-night: that he saw no chance of. apvolnting any one: bofore the meeting of Congress, when he hopes to geb gn additional approptiation sufficient to help him.out.. 'The reduction of his present force necessarily Iuaves hiin short-handed, but he prefers to keop within the inw, and get along as best he can until Congress comes to Risreliof, 25: ‘ae A TREASURY CIRCULAR. Wasuinatoy, D. C., July 12.—Treasurer Giliillan: hus issued: the foltowing circular relative to deposits for the 5 percent fundot | National banka: : ‘TREASURY OF THE UNITED States, WASniNds ‘tox, D, C., uly 2% 1881.—In uccordance with tuo Upinion of the dtturuay-Ganeral, dated Jute 30, 1681, the Nato! banks may reimburse the "Proasury of the United States for their olroulate ag notes redeemed in any of the following wiyat . By check drawn on New York, paynble, to the order of tho Assistant Treasurer in New York, and cuifectable through .the Clearinz House, forwarded directly, to that officer, with Jnstructions ta deposit tho sinaunt an account of the 5 por cent fund, and to forward the cere tivate of depoalt thoreof to the Treasurer of the Ouited Stutes, 3 3, By a doposit of lawful money of the United States with tho Assistant Treasurer of thé United States in New York, Boston, Pailadele phiu, New Orleans, Baltimore, Chicago, Cluciae natl, BL Louls,or San Francisco on account of the d percent fund. Binks not altuated iu cog af the above named cities should mate deposit through thelr correspondents. | Tha cyrtiticate | of daposit muat bo forwarded directly to the | Urgssurcr of the United States by the bank makeing, tho deposit,” Credit ounnot bo giveo ’ until It {a reoelyed. - 3. By remittanco of lnwful money of the United States addressed “To the Treasurer tho United States, Washington, D. C,,"" markt with the amount and vatura of the contenth and the faot that 1tin fromthe credit of the § pel cont fund. Express charges, if uot prepaid, w! / bo deducted from the prooveds of remitrance at Goveroment contract rates. STAR SERVICE, Sptctat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, “Wasurnatoy, D. C,, July 12—The follow. Ing letter shows .the aggrogate of nunual savings tn star routes by the reductions made during tho last four. months, ‘The two months of Gen. Elmer's Incumbency of the ollice of Second Assistant Postmas er-Geu- eral, Muy and Juue, are espectally noticcuule for tholr showing of reductions Wasninaton, D. O.. July 5 1881.—The Hom ‘Thoinas L, Jamea, Postriaster-General—inrz THe following are the reductions for tho reat by, 2 spoatal orders frum Murch 1 to June v0, Marah, oe ry oe » h Chiat a that additional reductions wore ordered before the end of tho ft year suflicient in amount to make the ager Raty over $1,200,000, bus the returns were lob made in season to Include thom In the June statements, . Notwithstanding this great de crease In the cost of the star service anit the consequent reduction iu the amount of serv- Ica: performed, No general ecuinplaints ane heard from any ‘quarter of inefficient wall survice. “A‘betler evidence of the prodigak ity a 1 contractollica under Its tate milulatration could hardly be thought of, . SNS JUBTICE, * Wasninaton, D, 0, July 12—The Secre jary of the Juterlor has renderea n decisloo in the matter of the right of an inmate of the Soldlars’ Homa’ who withdraws from such “home without the consentof the managersie recover hig Ponston. directly Into his own ands, . The beorstary suys; : ‘The law directy the payment of certain pers slona to the Soldiers’ Homes, ‘but ala guards giabuyseunent of the povslons solely tor the be ott of the pensioner without deductions, It's! nuked trust, which can only be oxorcived (uw! those continuing in receipt of tho caro of the Boldtor® Homes, 12 that cure and beneht case nor be Fiven, or IfJt is repudiated by thosatdlery tho soldier and nok the inetitution should bo om Utled $0 roveive the pension, FIVE. PER CENTS: Wasutnaton, D.0,, July 18 —It ls estimated by the Chief of the Loau Division of thu Trea ury Department that there are about $52" 000,000 registered 5 per cant bonds outstan> ing. Theae bonds are redgemable at ont ,