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THE BURLINGTON, VT., I'iiKli. JVIUSSS, FRIDAY MORNING, DKGEMHEK 23, 171. Good Na tared Scoundrels. " Boss " laeeJ ii credited with mn inexhant tible fund cf rood nature ; wanting the wonder ful wit nd versatile intellect that mates Falstaff the noit delightful rascal tht ever was deline ated. Tweed has ell that captlvatins eld thiel I vulgar qualities, his disboncMy, his lechery, h: obesity, his coarse animal spirits, the same di position to laugh hoarsely as be fattened on tae spoils his robber hand had won. 1 wesa woniu in all seriousness have petitioned "Prince Hal to " rob me thine Exchequer ; and when .1 ... tr;.. A it Ti-.nT m iht.r v ... r.. ,. r,ir """ " " lucre ru .-- : . , . , , . l . . .,ltmr.rv.r lnadvmnL ..will imneriuruauie goou Eaw.cucai. w uc wu.i- present a copy of stiart'slarje andbeiuUrnlstMl I etfemtic ot all me great corrupt in meiory. Lino Eii2riviig, entttitd j Lord Bason, the last great Englishman, who -t ! -I -, j i sow justice ior uaes onoer, asa mis auriDuie A 111 - LI 1 1 BDKLl.VGTON. FRIBAY. DEC. 22. 1871. 0. 0. BENEDICT. Editqs. to "Tick. uiisciiibeus. . M'rcmium Given to Every One. ".A.n The re-solar prlso of tail beautiful picture if two dollars, ail it canaa: bo obtained of the prlet teller! for aayleslsuau We-thus give I'Oim DOLLARS WORTH far TITO. The Eo graving li an exceed 'ngly pretty one, exe cute! In the best style of the art, from the pencil cf the suns art st who drw tbo well known picture "From Shore to Shore," aid though la an entirely dilercLt it) le. Is no less pleasioj aad desirable than that. It is printed onhesry plato-pjer.moaurlg 20 x 21 laeoef. That oil oar subscribers easy baTO opportunity to set this bountiful on-rarini FRbE, we will Hire a copy to any old ani.mser who renews bis subscription for a year before January 1st. aad eendsn, sarata terir, that isfor oneronMT and one nnu wtih SI, we will famish two copies of the Fbik Pnxulor a year and two pic ture, cr niGIIT IIOLLalts AVUItTIl PWIS FdlR. A better ttTer to subscribers wss never made i M e Ere Induced tomase Itonlyby too exreetatlon irfthereb) largo y increasing our subscription list. ,rdertbs Weekly Free I'rcss a r, and get a bentirul Steel Hurra rinj FFiEK. Subscription price Tiro Poixass In adranes. Addrso TflK KREK I-BEJ3 ASSOCIATION. Burlington, Vt. ;uK. If tlio cngravius is ordered to bo sent by mad. It will bo cscessiry to remit two Mtamfn ad- j iiH3jforpo"tse- the plcturewill then be sent b mall prepaid, eaielolly put up on a roller. Copies oin bs taaea at oor ofltos yrer tfoaiayt. A Passive Porcupine. la this, the blek winter of their sorest d.t- eontent, the Democracy are solemnly told by ; na rasctl is to powerful for harm as your their ablest leaders and party jjurnale that the only fair prospect of a gloriou political eum of good tenper net easily ruiSed. Sir Robert Walpole and Henry Fox, who, in the last cen tury, used coney to buy cp the English House of Cemmons as lariehly as erer Tweed t quaa- dertd it upon the Albany Legislature, were so charmicgly good natored that they were always fcllowed by trocps of warmly attached friends. The roaa of atern Reman integrity has his f-ensi bilitits co often outraged by the specticlo of knavery, that h cannot quell the rising of his holy anger, while the able Tarsals are always the ' hughing philosophers of the period, sneering at honesty and UBfelfiehcefsai soutethiog fit only to techerUhed by those who " suckle children and chronicle small beer. With no superfluous human sympathies co wonder the corrupt should be " good naturcd;" the grarity and gloom which the thoughtful gcol often wear upon their faces, because cf other and wider sorrows than private wrongs and cilamitiernerer darken theitbrows. And with the mass cf men this ability to always ' feel well,' that grows out cf moral callousness, is not only the mask of villainy, but is so attractive that it serves to aotuaily condone with many thought' less persons what they would scorn to practice. The world is full of " Prince Hals" who keep close company with the unprincipled and dis solute not because they caro to share their steal ings, or be confederates in their crimes, but because they bare a weakness for the fellowship of men whose countenances always betm trith magnetic joliiry, whose l.ps are full of jests, whose hands are as open as they would with every min's strong box to be. It always hard to quarrel with the man who amuses you, and Saakespearo drew Falstiff t represent that nierthit rises on their ed and graining sight, lies in their universal acceptince aod endorse ment of "the Paisire Policy." The hitherto tuibu'e-it, blatant and vociferous Democratic rani and file, that fjr ten yeais past have vexed the ears of lane men with their strident war- whoops and shrill pirty cries, are now to be calmed into quietude, coaxed into a decency of demeanor that cannot be congenial, into a tem perance of conduct and language that must do irritating violence to their natural tastes. " The Passive Policy " is a grave proposition that the whole Draxrati: party should sit in obsequious silence, cn their hacsehes, around a few Repub lican eote-heals, remaining, like the court circle or an African King, in this sorviie posi,:oa, uttering no cry, until the Jttpablican Jtir, haviDg conferred, shall decide what it is their sweet will and pleasure that the Utmacralir many shall do. Trying to conciliate a pig and mske Lim take thebroal and straight way homeward trying to quell a porcupine's quills by patting him j present system of capital production.' amusing, " good naturen, goou reeling scoundrel, who knows how t persuade people that his great crime"' is sfier ail nothing bat "bigjjie" The Internationals- This to !y, which attracted a good deal of at tention in New Vo'.k last w.et, and drew oat a huge crowd to see its parade on Sunday, it is s'ated numbers but 1K members or so, in Kew York, balfef whom are Germane and French, and but very few Irish. Some of the objects which it proposes to accomp.ish, as set forth by its members, are these "The total abolition f elate rule and all data privileges; complete j political and social equality for buth sexes; na- 1 tiosa!i:ation of land, and of al! the instruments i tf projection; education by 'he- State. 13 be compulsory, gratuitous and secular ; ju recog nition of any particular creed in religion ; the abolition of standing armies, and the substitu tion of arbitration for war ; all laws to be sub mitted directly to the people for approval or re jection ; associative production in place of the ' of the power to foist f!j or knaves upon the Over fosr thousind pensions were paid cation by their personal recommendation: and New York last week, including General Dix and while the President thus takes the personal re sponsibility of appointment, he cannot remove those appointed, arbitrarily, for a mere partisan difference of politics. The people, we take it, will ba inclined to laugh at the critio, and fer vently bless the practical minded President who was silently at work while his enemy was airing his eloquence. Senator Schun's usefulness is very like that conceded to Owen, Olendower by Hotspur, when he admitted that "No man speaks better TTelsh. No man speaks better English than this foreign-born Senator ; tut a man who failed as he did as a lawyer, who failed as a general in the war, csccot afford to despise a President because his eminent ability is not that of a literary artist.or political essayist The country is not half so much intcrcsted.in the question nhether Grant is oris not a eociil genius, a man of literary or political erudition, as it is whether he has gool sense and common honesty enough to give us a good government. The people are satisfied with the kind of his tory Grant has madt thus far, and think it for tunate that while Le was Baking it, his sword was mightier for good than ever can be the Sen ator's pen. The small pox is prevailing in Waihirgtoc, D. C, as well as in Fiichbars, Mass. The Orange County Eejlf comes out in favor of Geo. Francis Train for next President. Thurlow Weed, who were privates in the war of 1812. The Dutch Parliament has voted to cede the Island of Sumatra, one of the largest and finest islands in the Indian Ocean, to Great Britain. Governor Walker, of Virginia, has pardjned ex-llavor Caboon, of Richmond, berctcfii twice convicted cf complicity in the Ilamisiein forgery. It is said that English merchants, when the illness of the Prince of Wales was alarmtn: bought ihs entire stock of black gloves, b!ac! art:5;iil lloxers, dry goods ami jet ornaments in Piris. Sach is lifs ! Minister Selene has fully explained to the State Department his connection with the Emma mine, and icformi it thit he has ditsolred his connection with ij. and will ontinus discon nected during the remainder of his membership, Tne Wool. Cno?. The wool crop of the United States for the year ending June 1,1870, r-seerding to the census returns, amounted to 101,284,078 lbs.induding 47.929,617 from the Northwestern Statea Dostou floral trade with New York alone amounts to 52.000,000 per annum. How that for bleak New England? In the House, on Friday, Mr. Willard pre sented the petition of Davis Tucker, a soldier of 1812, for a pension. William II. Fletoher has been appointed post master at Lyndonvillc, vice II. K. Dewey, resigned We should like to knew where the Hardwlol: tporler gets the authority for stating that the late Fred W. Loring was a native of Vermont. DjumouTU CoLLiax. The "Catalogued the Officers and Staled of Dartmouth College for the academical year 1871-72" shows n Senior ass of C9. Juniors 78, Sophomores 75, and Freshmen 60 In tho Classical Department. Of this number 15 Seniors, 19Juniore, 22 Sopho mores, and 9 Freshmen arefrom Vermont Twees' Axeest. The following lines from the ballad of " Bom Billee," published some time before the November election, very accu rate! v oredicted th- actioi of on" Charles 0' Conor t The Skipper 69 oalle-i to Charles OVon r, ' Jost haao that big oSmp down to me .' go Cbarle be reached down into lbs schjaer. And jarted It ss ilill out tuldeo-loe . Andtkt leittkt wet of ilvttr IT, 'atn. Tie bttppir hod htm et er mtn lute." A lady in Berlin, has a copy of the Matsaehu- eette Spy. or .Isaeri-oa Orarlr of Librrty, dated at Worcester, Wednesday, November 27, 1776. She has preserved it carefully for fifty five years. It contains twelve columns, which ere each 131-2 inches long and 3 inches wide The Vet mont and ilawichuietts railroad will petition the next Legislature cf Massachusetts for leave to straighten their road between Fitch -burgh and Gardner ; also between Erving and Turner's Fall, anl for authority to increase their capital stock to the extent of Sl.iiOO.OOO, or t isu bonds convertible into stock. trying to cram a quart into a pint bottle, i.re thing hardly less promising of soocess than this effjrt to persusle the Democratic masses to accept " the passive policy." If the Democratic face has one peculiar feature it is a nose that wont be led by anybody but a Democrat whose party orthodoxy is settled by having voted or fought against the enlargement of civil and poli tical liberty for the last ten years. The Democracy in 1800 asked the people to vote for the non-extension of liberty and the people voted tbem " out into the oold" where they hate stood ever einee cursing and swear ing, stamping about furiously to keep wsrm, grinding their teeth savagely in their bitter vexa tion but never once tecanting error, or repent ing of wronj. No shame to-day have they for trying in 1861 to make the cation surrender to , vaunting rebellion; no shame for trying in 1S68 to tempt the people into repudiation of our debt, anl resistance to the reconstruction tht would forever confirm the negro's claim to an equality of suffrage anl civil rights with us all ; always actively foolish an 1 wicked in all these years, they are not the fellows to hang out the while flag of earrrnlrr now. They nonaorcunlerstand what peace conferences or passive policies mean than did Lee's army ; they will fight like Lee's army, " on their book," until they are decim ated again by defeat, and totally disorganized. And so at the next election if the Democracy dies as a party it will cot perish under aoyrece gale Republican leadership, but will fall, like mis-shapen devilish " Richard the Third," fight ing, scratching, biting, fall of imprecations, un repentant to the last. It is quite likely, that their leaders know this well, and that the passive policy i only a " pos sum" policy, to be abandoned when it fiDs to deceive the Republicans whom they hope to snsre. This is a pretty heavy lift for a small body of men to undertake ; snd it will hardly add to its popularity &ni itfluence in this country that the International Society openly sympathizes with and claims likeness to the late Paris Com mune. No doubt if the Sunday pioceasion had been finally prohibited, the cry of " persecution" would have been raieed, and much more sym pathy excited fur at.d attention attracted to the Mrciety. As i' b, they have had their show ; the people have seen who ana what they are, and they will probably subside into a political club for the Presidential cac-.iign. Thi lioosac Trssii The Hooaao Tunnel progressed in November as follows : East end, 161 feet ; central shaft (eaward only), 14 feet; west end, 131 feet, and 54 1-2 feet of brick arch built. Bart 50 feet of the west end of the tunnel remains to t-e arched. Five thousand pounds of nitre-glycerine are need at the tunnel every month. Before Tweed reached the tombs cn Saturday, a writ of habtat corpus was issued by order of Julge Barnard, and Tweed vraa taken into the supreme court, where he was aiciitted to bail in the sum of S5000 This is rather paltry bail for so great a criminal. The Tr.lvne however, says that bailing Tweed on a criminal charge don't prevent his early committal to jail. The extension of the time for jjstificatiot: of his bondsmen in the civil suit is rapidly coming to a cloie, end if they can't satisfy the cmrt. the " Bom" nil! have tj t to Lullow-street jail. Gr orr Yrintt Snira asi Paxi'iu oac Thoosakd Dollars Rtwa' The Watcrtown Timet saya : We arc author'.zud by the pub lishers of the Boston Tim. i, a solvent company, to make the following r'i'P.t'cn anl offer to our mathematicians Wastf-d--ah answ&e Suppose r to be ! miles from Boston ti I'orl'nt.. A loomnuve starts at 11' i'i!w I tui ltu.-ton, g-ing filty miles the first hour, twtn'y-fise toe second. twelve and a halt the tlnr t. n-,d so on each hour traveling half the reuiaiu-ng distance. whea will it reach tlie Jepot at rotllana A reward of Sl.OiK) awans any perron win, by a mathematical c-i!culati;-. ca" mvc a' the ex act hour. Here's pre I w'nti r wo:' '-r uitr y mug ' cy pherers." To white o'd.-r -hi'.' tb.' -V ' be drawn ' j The Internal ooals, wh app! tj tLi city j authorities cfX'W Yor'. for Ui. . paialeoaj Sunday, in honnr cf tbs a . "if members of their erjimrv- I -i' ir- igli I the furmscf law, are ai - i ty f workingtnec. unite! in ! I -'itj ! with fellow laborers i' 'i -ni Europe, and devti 1 : i.'-.i i ' ultra views of ' t ' - t The Civil Service Reform President Grant cn Tnesday sect bia a message to Congress, transmitting the Report of the commission atpointed to devise roles for refor mation of the civil service ; saying that these rules will be faithfully executed by him. but cannot, rithont further legislative action, be binding on his successor ; and asliog the sup port of Congress to enable him to cirry cut there reforms, lie also recemmends an appro priation to continue the prete'et Board of com missioners another year. The rules, which are to go into effect Janu ary 1 , 1672, we have not space for, but shall publish them next week. 1'CRSO.VAU Miss Emma I.. Iloyt of Mcntpelier, has been elcc'c.1 class poet by her mates at Vszsar college. Vinnie Ream has purchased a houte neir the Capital at Washington, where she will be convenient to the lobby when there are any more great men to be chiseled. The St. Albans .ifeisenyereays: "Weare pain- ed to announce the death cf Mr. William N. Smith, which occurred at half-ptt 12 o'clock Wednesday. Thus has passed away another cf ocr active and honorable business men, to whom our village is inlebted for one cf the hanJsoxeit and for a time the handsomest business block on Main street, for the furthersnce of many public improvements hy his active influence, and for a consistent walk and conversation as a Christian man." Caristioe Nilsson will soon be lost to her sd- mirera on this side the water. After an active season, including all the large eastern anl weat ern cities, she will depart in early spring for Drury Lin- theater, London. The New York correspondent of a Boston jour. na! is authority Tor the statement that A. T. Stewart intends to leave his entire fortune, esti mated at from 50,000,000 to S7O.O0O.O0O in public and private charities, and that he recent ly made a will to that effect. The Tribune eiy it is " us o red that Gen. Schenck's interest in the Emma mine was ac- uired, and hie promise to serve as ft director of company secured, before he was appointed to the British embassy or expected to be." 1. Fisk, Jr., denies that he uses a little in stead of a large I for himself. It wouldn't be li!;- Fisk t.- do it. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is about to remove to tckcnvtlle, Florida, for the winter, to restore her impaired health. Uarrett Davis's hobby seems to le speeh-c payment lion George H. Williams, who succeeds Hon. j-.os K. Akcrmtn as Attorney Ueneral, is a native of New York, forty-eight years of age. an 1 a eeif-elucated lawyer. He lived in Iowa veral years,, holding several judicial offices. InlSolhewas appointel byPresileat Pierce Chief Jnst" ? of the Territory of Oregon, and nJl there s.oce He enterel the L'nittl :'atcs "v'tia'c :n 111 as a Republican, and was f cv.t B-rviceoa important comm ttec vt LecL" his term last spring he was mi It- a le u -f the Joint High Commistion , wh'-re t 1 1 vrrh ere lit Cheap Transportation front West to East. THE ntlr-OIT COMMXRC1AL COSVElITIO.t T1IK SLAOABA AlfD CAUOUXAWAGA BnifCAISAU ADOPTION or A MXMOEIAL TO COSOBE-V. Deteoit. December 14, 1S71. To the Fret Prat and Timet : The Commercial Convention of delegates from the States specially interested in securing im proved continuous water transportation from the valley of the Mississippi to the Atlantic, called together in this city December 13th, has met, taken action, and adjourned. As a body it was respectable in point of members, and influential .from the weight of capital, enterprise and brains represented in it. Its delioeratlons were as har monious as could hare been expected, amid the many and wide interests preesicg for recog nition along a line cf fifteen hundred miles, and its final action was taken with substantial 1 poses, and that it ought to be made free na tional highway, " as near aa the cost of super- 1 N - c uiforta himf f.r ii.-t -os-t I - t ; t r. -t is sail, by p'av .n li Vi I-, - '. VIii en nrtic'ar!i rkt.Jfi! iu a - I l I an ec:l! l'ii'i! cify I'ar--r -i ' i. who is ofvn h.a aiwrsar-. Tae Quarrel in Congress. The pie nt political situation is neither new nor strange in its general aspect. It is not greatly different from the short lived season of dissension an 1 diapute within the Republican ranks during the third vear of President Lin coln's first term. Indeed where history has not fairly repeated itself the difference is one that miles the present condition of affairs more reasonably satisfactory and reassuring to those who are not prone to be unduly alarmed at the slightest symptoms of party discord anl uoreet. The elections cf 1&C3 were by co means as flat tering an endorsement of Lincoln's Administra tion as that but lately obtained by President Grant, The opposition anl open hostility to President Lincoln's re-election and to his views on certain public questions h;I quite as respect ab!e leaJerihip, quite as formidable a front wilhin the Republican party as can be claimed for the Anti-Administration faction of to-day. Ben Wade anl Henry Winter Davis were ss able snd influential and certainly as pure public men ss any that now carp at the Administration, and, with a better cause, failed to win any per- Annual Sinner of the Lumber Sealers' Association of Boston. The annual dinner of tLe Ljmher Dealer' Association of Boston occurred at the Parker House, Friday even ng, when a large company, composed of the members of the association and their ladies, aat down to a superb dinner, with out wiocs, bat enlivened by the fine musio of the Germania Bind The dinner occupied nearly two hours, and was served with the care, quiet attention and good taste which has made the came of Parker's famous alt over tLe country. The President, Mr. J. J. Gouch, occupied the chair and opened the speech making, and pre sented Mr. Joseph F. Paul, who acted as toast master, and after some pleasant ieannrks read the following toasts, which were responded to by the gentlemen whose names are subjoined : " The Lumber Dealers' Association of Boston." Major George Curtis ; " Our Annual Celebration," J. Otis Wetherbee ; " The Lumber Trale," W. 8. Blanchard of Cambridge ; " Oar Ltdy Associ ates," John W. Lcatherbee ; ' Our Retired Lumber Dealers," General Robert Cowdin "Oar Lviy Guests," R. B. Tiltoa of Cam bridge ; " Our Junior Associates," 8amnel G. Rogers ; " Oar Members," Henry N. Tdton ; "Oar Allies, the Wholesale Deelsrs," Lawrence Barnes, of Burlington, Vt Major Curtis spoke of the lumber trade of Boston as continually on the increase. The CniSTKAS PBBMJtTS "E TUE WEST. Young Men's Christian Union of Boston are re- troJa3e , ceiving kind and liberal donations tram every quarter, in response to their call for Christmas presents, with which to gladden the hearts of children at the burnt districts in the West. We are glad to notice that Burlington is among the cities that have contributed to thia worthy ob ject. One of the Grand Duke's suite is engaged in collecting all comments in the American news papers relative to the Duke and his party. The collection is to be taken, to Russia, if the fleet ever succeeds in getting back there, acad wiil be arranged an 1 bound for preservation. The im pression of America that this trifling scrap book, if read, mill give to all the Russians, will be somewhat peculiar. Small Pox is a College A few days since one of the student! of the Weslcyan Uoivetity, Middletosrn, Ct., died, having joat returned from a visit to Philadelphia. The persons who took eare of him daring bis sickness were soon sick themselves, when it began to be nri-wl about , "... . had that the smiu-pox was in tae college, unetner this was true or sot, the students hardly cared to learn, bat most of them took an early train for their I suppose it is t!i j Mr. Hoar of V. -i Congress, We . to 1) l t lotions of cs-1 'i' a- The dis a,- i' which the s :i man, wou 1 Ik1 . but a r"'.1:' a p sympatb;. v!i t " rectionip'f an ' t . i exreut 1 c... nV against the vor-i have boit.t' tl.r r f, blool me i e-'v . a drawn Uu- r.M ! than fir ni 'x r ? r- -tbe.r neir - -i it i'.i t J) i vl. gives ana- .- , n fe Njr' ,-r- IV It.d II .r. n- , week of this r li'--. the tonrdr.v. Thayer, the ui i -bouii If- j II iv. n I t - l nin. r r ui l ' - veil f li Lf rwu as eui.a- 1 t; - i. r; w r" -r. . Til fir fi . nt f the tirst h -s . f - .- V. Id. A whale, lately captured in the vicinity of Boston, is now moored to a wharf there, and is daily visited by carious persons who pay twenty- five cents a head. The monster is about eighty feet long.girthl about sixty feet.his jaw is about eighteen feet long, and is is estimated that he will yield about one hundred barrels of oil when cat lop. Dr. Hiuhcoek of Amherst college wants the skeleton to aid to the college cabinet, which already contains the anatomy of a lion, an alligator and an ostrich, ls well as those of some insignificant citiiins. i 'if .N r:ii. k.....r -Lm 'II 1 J r r I-io; - ' a -I - I l !- 1 I w 'y a u'avy i levij1 fry see; ' r - . bsl ; art o i f me N The Columbus (Ohio) C.aztttt notices the commencement of operations by a Door Sash and Blind Compaay, in that oity, the largest estab- lrahsaent of the kind in the State, outside of Cin amount of lumber shipped to this market during ., .Bd ntv.l.nd. nrennml to mannfietnre me paaiyear was vaiuei ai nearly ten million t,Ki, i ,b. l.,t ,l-d fo. dollars. ., .. I uwic mc UUIKC in lOflueiwus UEuagvv-- ar. i..o.inaonaracl Cambridge, the vice- Francis Hiekok as Secretarv and president of the aesooialion, a'so referred to the Treasurer. He is a Borlincton bov. son of Dr. diflerenee between the time when lumber ui YTm. C. nickok. and btingi to his new place the cm in me wooes ot uoxoury and the wilds of experience and skill gained in the lumber estab- uorcoester, an.1 now wuea loggers re sitting liehments of this c'.tv. by their camp-fires tn Canada, New Brunswick. VI. -l: it- . a., .Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida. There are men now silting at tnis board who cat lumber in their own lands in Michigan, send it to their own mills to be sawed, take it in their own ves sels to their own plauing-raille and then deal it out xo tneir custoniere. Gen. Cowdin pleasantly referred to Mr, Lewie Hall, of Cambridge, well-known in Burlington, aa & iciutu lumber neater. Mr. D. N. SkUlinga was t. reply to the toast of the wholesale dealers, bat be was compelled io leave at an early Dour in order to reach home. There will be rare times for lawyers in the complioetioae arising from the death by drown- ingof a Mr. Lamm anl his daughter, ia Fast Haven, Conn., recently. If it is proved that he died first, the property would have gone to his daoghter and then back to her mother ; if the daughter was drowned first then the property goes to a half aister of 31r. Ineam's, who lives a member of tho same firm (Skilllngs, Whitney Jrmurrs ana names or ivoston, uurlioctoQ and Tw.i i . . . mscent popular sympathy or support for their Tw"i h 7 "CJ." 'JSZ" crubie BgiiKMin-j x.xfcauve. : aurally in- nets staffing the irameme baniKH done l.tti.vja on tht Ottawa Itiver. iigcant as the Administration party Ii-ve beeo, in.'ivectirg that the yore held &natorf eiinp lj fcugbt an epiortunity to put the ooodttct of the EOTernirect under the micrcroope in order tojerTe the interwt of the little private" political entfrprite to which these tcalccntente hare been so cordially innied by the Democracy, we Mie it would have been far better judg ment to have cnVred Irom the very rt no op position to the iuTcetigation atkal. The people ate proud cf General 'Grant and hit AJminitraticn. and confident that it can afford the most eearchinj exposure. The people do not expect impossibilities, they do not hold the Pree'idtnt rtf possible firlhe errcra aod inadequate action cf law maliers, who in their anxiety to 1 caption and intuiting critkthke BeoatorTiton, ate far more likely to convict Itentelua cf ihameful failure to frame the laws needed fcr the tbrogation of the abuses cf the ci?il eerviee than to fatten the ttigma of admin titrative ictfSaiency upon the President and his eaadjatcrs. We all remember the draai and trumpet rpeeches cf Senator Samcer in the Ssnto Ujmingo ar his great cry, acd ecwty wool crwade, which left the President stroegtr than ever with tie people. A PruiJent that has al wajn urged citil eeriice rtfarm, need not fear the lcquiHtotUl action of a Ccnnesi that has f.ilf J to i roTiJe the cecwury legislation. So Vt tha door all be thiown wida open to the whole paci.if they really t-xell game worthy cf their ienritite noiej, let no one seeli to turn same here ia the West, but jaU whrre ij cot Oar esteemed citizen, Lawrraoe Barnes, E?q., known. An 1 when it i settled who the right ful beir u, there will be more suits to et pos- wasun, for Air. Lumm bid tr&ctf erred hi a property to a frioni, to keep it from his wife's hand. The a lminiatrator has als) sued the town for SS0.000 dimage, end the town has sued the State fur rein bur tcment of part of the Ion, on tome point of jurisdiction caly tbo Hwjere can tell what. Thia speech closed the evenine's entertain ment, and iIm company dtsperaed about eleven v -w. tMHg.Bg UBg OJQe. louii t vt', a ' r h t . 'i r . t " milt. t''i a ft . .ii. V; a i snow Jr. i v in - r?u , s-1 i Of cutting h( r v t, r . '. Jr.! cculi J i wtf h-i ; ibtir pr.'.. p. nx Ui-i m ih whicli in t.:t t t over thf wh i estiMhe-l -i t the :rc. an I t" W. C Tiruc'.( till Tbm-iay n-j.', 'x;i.-t-. f a is trap, ar(er a-i i-itn nrnt-ut I -'iro hours, i.rtuuitt ttt 5 . t c-, 1'. ai dition to ii 1 r :tV e raj-p hi r-i't r.1- I r r'ea',-'-iojj, was ahu-i lani'y j a I 1 w'i pn-v s r. acd cooking apfiii'y., -i- 1 e-, !y !or tbem there wan in i.i u"hu 0 t ralr. aiiics distributed alt-UK t ip i:n v. hen- they were stuck, which f urn if hp i me u w-ih r.'enty of fuel. Under tijie eir u-n-tance thfy passea tne time Tery cc-n -u j 11. i'v !. IS it for this ciicamsrence cf a- nr.ipif 'i;('y cf foe! it it doubtful if th" ci" hive t 1 Tery setere fnwrng, and it . u ' np -fi'-'v that the whole party might hati f z-a ( il-'a-h , as the weather was mtensdy , I, :he kher mometer running down to over ' 'erecs below fero. Their locimotiTe wa use'ens, i .oo if the track hvi. been clear, for want 01 wan r, the intenae co!d hivinj; rt'iucej the ava.Wb r water supply to the condit.cuof solid ice. A prirste letter from Dr. Thajer says 41 That y u rrty l- lia.e wron jT.prci;un relative to the ditH:u'tte if in'?r trivel on this line, will state thu we w-:e at the tad of the track abcut twenty miles fro:n te R? 1 Uirer, where water tanks are n corap'eud, and at the end of a deep cj. u1 re protected with snow fences. "Upwards of two hundr.d uides of the track h already in running order, and there are rut more than a d?xen places whefe i; will be nccps&ary to I make provision against tuc.w MockaJes, acd none of them mire thau 1 ha'f dczen rods in j length The d!f!icnltie ot wirK-ng t'e Viiit in winter do not compare i a Pstent or severity x itt-l I I. st -Taelii ;s r(p-.r( 1 le !i fi t!if alersty -ii:h :i -- I' 'i!'M.e tliit, if be- sbi.1 1 t 2 i ivrLftl City, ! wool I r 0 tb ar 1 p'jj.rr .a a 1 Europe V, il,ia l!. V. "Vjrn, thi li-. -! t t v 1 ltitsa',lja".'T:', 11 t rc v? a irpff' .:.it fi i h.fc c Ileseues of the Hyjae -f it - rt.a.i?T a evening Jjlge Pu.aaJ i" oin ' ;! ' ( nacm' ers cf user s win have rt- ct..iia .ovta'ion i.n tlc Ma?i.l."!e' i -f 'i n th pleasant icci. a The President and the Civil Serv.rc. . .tw V rlv 7'- ' T r ea-B V -ne-v tntiiR'rti ct ! ;.. . ' aot-'ft . t . f ' !: "Uf 1 1 ) J . c" ' at. in i H-ert r-Uiit "D- r il.h t 1- a! rf 1 ') f( le wurk f'LLp.eu.x ir ' rer u. l 1 111 - I is. MIT ' If " :.r-fn shciil pas, Mr J,l k"- 1 u. , t; t r f. r ;he ref rn: of tLe c v.l tvr 1 sew! uix.-krry in the u.relu.n thai tl r, ;e l ;ht W rtf. -med And if tLe I'rtu it c! abric tii 'j I al p ccrta n ru'es f r the -arr e Tr'.jT; we can still see har:n irr t n if r- -t. na! , n t, vc s-icii 1 I'ftt ih a'iil r..j . f iw iti a I Jiti i'i 1 1 thi wii '1 "joy d-T.M tr m ilsl'ns i at : ure M icvir, :fi:.p raia, a ne a 'r.-, L tLe wL !e w.rk c .i:i-It-e' , 1 h.s f owt-, i tat Liin the i'rcn , .t t-u ri'.n.i i'i M7 1 un!y liy ru'at.-T-, 1- .e c .not r. ikf 'is Wfay, then, .r s n, kr t fea; :h b' n tbe w. rk -f untnimity. Ths Contention met ia the ball of the Hoard of Trad? of this city, a Urge, high na J h and some hall, with wall and oeilicg elaborately frescoed, and hiring a fountain in the centre of the room, which must be a cooling and pleasant feature ia warm weather. There were present Governor Baldwin of Michigan, GoYermr Fair child of Wuconnn, with his " empty sleeve," lacking the arm which he give to his country when Colonel cf the 6th Wisconsin ; ei-Gov-ernor Sibley, of Minoesota, who was the pioneer, acd Grit elected Governor of that State ; Colo nel I A. Thorns, of Dubaqse, Iowa, through vrhose missionary labars the various Hoard of Trade and other bodies represented were stirred up to send delegates to the Convention ; a doxen of the tirrinjr business uten of Iowa, as many men from Ohio, indud- ing torn? of the heaviest forwarders and grain dealers of Toledo ; an influential delegation from Minnesota, among the number Mr. li. VT. Icger- soll, who weat West from Burlington and is now a leading merchant of St. Paul, J. Potts Brown and others ; a delegation of eight or ten leading gentlemen from Wisconsin, including besides the Governur,'Col. ('. 1. Robinson, Hon. 7. W. Corning, Hon. W. W. Field and others ; a strong delegation cf Dstruit and Michigm merchants and lorwirdern. TLe reprefentative of New Yoik prcserit, thirteen in number, were mainly from Niagara tVunty and from Ojvvego. New Fag.and hai five repreeetitatives, Hon. T. C, He-.ty of Maine, cce of the intelligent men of Portland who have done so much to build up that enterprising city, and f prominent member cf tee Portland Board of Trade, Mr. Charles Clarke of Portland, Major Jones of Concord, N II., a delegate frxra tb; Burlington Board of Traie, ani MrjLiuard Chase of Springfild, Vt, who bMog in t' t ty was Invited to a seat in the (.Vnvcntnn. 1 lirms aad the district of Columbia were rrniwntH by a single member apiece. Ia a! ?it t bun Jrsi delegates were pre?ent. The Convtntion ru c tiled to or Jer by Colonel Thomas of Ijwi.acd Gov. Baldwin of Michigan was chosen temporary chairmao. Bishop Mc Ccekry ifffrel pjtr. Gov. BsUwip tfcpa we'com?d the delegates, io ai address in which be traced the growth cf the c iLtry aad cspeciaMy ot the Great Weat, noted the tffect of the llr.t 'an!, aad other great iv - i a of commerce, aad set t,rth the vital L Cv, ,y tf still c'leiper transportation between tb, J- .1 aai W.f, i . e v "t-m.-y c. :-ai:teee t. n credentials, pfrrui-. 1 1 crgac zit i1., tsc!utions and mem- igrets, anl -rder cf batipetf were a; i The nveuf un zTtQ'z-l p?rmao c ' . v. , tb? f jllaw.nr . iotendence and repairing fclll permit. This paper describes ihe proposdl ship canal from the St Lawrtnc to Lake Champlain, as " com mencing at the mouth of the Sore!, fifty miles below Montreal," enlarges on the heavy lockage oa the Sorel, and generally is full of extraordin ary mis-statements of facts. It was net suppcied that the BaJalo people vroald favor any im provement except one of the Erie Canal, and their report, though re?pcctfully rrceived, was not debated, or allowed to take any time of the Convention, except that spent in listening to it. The most spirited and freest debate of the occasion, took place ia the committee oa memo rial and resolutions. This was ccrapee-J of two gentlemen from each State represtnted, making a committee cf twenty delegates. The delegates frcn the more Western States, Minnesota, Wie conein ami Iowa, presented, and strongly crged, resolutions in favor of the propcted improve ment, already surveyed by Congress, by vrh'.ch the Mifsissippi river is to le connected with Lake Michigan, by way of the Wwoonrin and Fox rivers and a canal connecting these rivers. This they greatly need, in order that their wheat nay be worth marketing, and that they may cot have to bum their corn for fuel. The dele gates frozi those States could not b?ar to give up the help for their project, which they had hopel for from thia Convention. But the ma jority cf the committee thought it not best to in clude that matter in the resolutions. In reaching this conclusion, the Oswego delegates, who did a good deal of talking, not always in the mildest and most modest tone, were active. They really ranted nothing alluded to, except the Nhgara Ship Canal on the American side. This they want Congress to build, and ;hen tbey hope to see the great route from the West brought through Oswego to Albany. The Toledo gen tlemen oa the other hand, favored an enlarge ment of the Wetland Canal, as more likely to be secured, than the construction cf a new canal by Congress, at double or treble the cost of enlarg ing the Welland, and in the face of the probable opposition of the State of New York, and they had some help from Net? Ea gland in presenting this view cf the case. It was urged by seme ia reference to this, tha; the quickest way to secure the enlargement of the Wetland, was to push ahead the project for a canal oa the American aide. The result of the labors of the committee was the presentation of the fJlo ing The time required torun these propellers from Vcmnnt "n-.-. -unicago or jjumtaioijurungion, distance 1,41 J miles and 1,473 miles respectively, is six day , trnwu wixtxr and twelve hours ; from Burlington to New York, S00 miles, say two days nd twelve hoars. From Chicago to Duluth or New Tort, nine days. It now takes ten days to pass through the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany, and I am in formed that during the season when transporta tion is most pressing the great number of boats required to pas the locks causes such delays that U often takes twenty diys By the way of the Welland Canal and Lake , y ' aTl o ,c- . Champlain, fro-a Chicago to Burlington, we ean r?.apA'r l5e " l "J - secure. jjmoc wi ,wc,Kri 0.1 a . . . - - - cost cf StS.OOO.OGO, with 1,121 miles of fres ' . "-!'. iiirr.- t.vrfcanal navization. and with oalv 859 feet i,1'?'in. Lar-" T- f. ' j- WtOXETOAT, Turain vs ikt 17tw. 18ru aid i'-r,, We have the pleasore tj ai.c , gextats are ia progress f , most iatercstinjt ami va n, STiecsssSil series of mto-.o-. severalerali:eDtgentlem-a'L;a , earn!, and other necj'-a- - Amoar theso ure T. S. (i ! . the Connec -.cut Board o' of lockaire : aad from Burlington to Kear Yori 300 miles, with free, open lake and down-strtaoa navigation. 237 miles, ani only G3 miles of taicd canal navigation, and onlj feet of lockage The present Erie Canal has a lockage if 070 1-2 fset, and its length is 368 miles from Bu3alo to Albany, its capacity 210 tons. From Chicago or Dalath to New Vort, vis the Erie unal, ia I,.7 miles, or wnun 1,J4 miles are free, open lake and down-stream navigation, ami 63 mil's of taxed canal navigation, with a lockage of 675 1-2 feet. I do not know tho location or length of the proposed Niagara Ship Canal. I understand that it must be from 20 to 30 miles long, and with a lockage of not leva thaia330 ftet. and mainly through rock, anl that its cost will be from 812,000,000 to S15.000.000. The distance from Uerego to Albany is about 205 miles, and the lockage. feet. The reported time for transport by water from (Chicago to Albany, exclusive of tranship ment at Baffalo, is about 15 days at the present time. This tiase can no doubt be shortened iy an improved class of boats between Chicago ani Buffalo. 1sV I 1 I Oa. 7 1 I Lake Champlain route will also aecocomaidate j Knr'idi lumber trade, and will secure commercial i:. uuca raid, on "A-sociat(. i reseat aod i'utore." pn f. . torcell Un.Trsity, fjditor ff r -isentoftbe IturalJVr '0r I wry JIuln4ry; enry Turk, .oftbe . HcraeoHubta-.if the V(r , lie ertuoat State A n i We have abun.Jint x cthtr aaaaetacce, wb c i authoritatively to ann i- -f ot :imire.l m us , many aetta to infer ; hjf . manner tube Jstry t tLe any member dft-.ree j proper time during u cookideratiun ty the .Vj may Jeasn I. iht oaf)uaii&eiJ ap-- , meet iog uae the ul f , tender' thm, us . i oteased atteadanc? at t;. , accommoUat.008 arp p-o. , The beadtjuarrers tf it committee wi!i be at the 1. Arran?eaei.j have b - iiieiitbeis attd laJii wth : lithe - 1 O. - Hs,nr Cues;, r:.irm . A' raopemtats. Ccrrr ,f r Pronx Ch:" Cf. Some talk ia beir-' to the matjBSjr of tl o niScrot rttlef fund k k ., PREAMBLE ANU BESOLCTIOHf. Whereat, This convention is deeply impressed with this central thought, to-wit : that the true prosperity of any nation can only be found in the greatest prosperity of its individual members, ani the various commercial and internal relations between the different States ; there fore, Rttolved, That, in the opinion of this con vention, the General Govern me nt at Washu?- ton should at once adopt a liberal policy as to intercommunication between the West aod strength to construct and support the work. I have reason to believe that the Dominion of Canada would enlarge toe Welland Canal and the locks on the tir. Lawrence Canals, and either eonstruot the Caoghnawaga, or grant facilities tor doing the same, and have the right to use the same by citixens of the United States se cured upon proper terms, by treaty which should provide for a juat reciprocity of trade. I Boderttoocl that up to the close of navi-i Han this tMr tk ftKai'TjM fnr trancnnrtin wheit from Ck-Nago or Milwaukee to the f-h .n- ! contributed y ail i , plain Valley werejS9 cents per buaheL i in c,': jess. Sire I vesture taeTassertioB, that arith the '--!- ; dutin-which m 7 Canal finiahed, wheat can be transported from I a s,iui Lake Michigan or Saperior for 10 cents a not beBerethe mat--bushel and pay remunerative toll.-, and th I bcuctilaUy firwar' carrier a fur oompeosation. 1 piej v waett ! The cost of transportation by water depeoda j . . , , upon the sixe of the cargo. The larger the car,: - lecntr;,. c,r . the cheaper the cost of transport. our very heat cif'r o- Opensea navigation, with 3,000 tons, ccsts , red tipe kaa tc her-- ices man one mm a ion a mue ior iransporca tion. I do not wish to discoa the advantages cf water transport over rail for coarse products. The charges on the East and West railroads have enabled many of them to double the capi tal stock within the last few years, and pay la-g ? dividends on the whole. This has ail been a tax either upon the producer, by reduction of price on his production at home, or npo-i L-j tide-water by the Great Lakes and tU rivers consumer. leading to and from ihe centers of the States lying , The Erie Canal, loosely and extravagantly u adjacent thereto it has been managed up to 1863, had mere tbu Hesoirea, mat in tne opinion cr tnis eonven- , paid for itself, with t per cent interest on n tion, the construction of the Niagara Ship Canal ii or great national importance, ana represen tative! in Congress are reoeted to do all in their power to procure an appropriation for that purpose. Hnolved, That the Legislature of the State cost, and all repairs, expenses of operation ai J waste. Up to aad including 1SCC, the aggregate cos of the Erie and Champlain Canals, including co&t of maintenance, and lejal interest on coat cf jeeted to the same fi.il.ir ji construction and maintenance, was bloVXM.- -.re Mr. uirr. Dext- serv.ng peraot s fro: . siry restraint may w ship in indrvtdLiI c fact that red tepe . diet nor adequate cold snap, bat I do n eaffric fir either from rtceiviog tuis : en Ccr.imittce of I thrvfts: Howard Ci madj V esldest ot r Witterf tree. Seen; ,-y Treasurer, and frlr e. Barton, V tiee (' ia 'i.i u le of Aew York be requested to grant permission j 21b . And the aggregate income fro-n th- to tae uenerat uovcrnment to enter upon its ter- ' same daring the same period, with lntertK cn ritory for the purpose of sorrejing aod construe- I the tame, was Sl'JJ,4to, 775.07, leaving a ing the Niagara Snip Canal. balance in favor of the State after paving f,-r tb Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, . canal and cost of repairs and maintaioance, ani duly authenticated, be forwarded to the Preai- interest on the sme, of 3&,445,oti0.ul. c' dent of the United States and ro each member of it is evident that the tolls on the Ere Cana1, -0 v i,i iua Fiirv.h''d of Wis- T. C. Kerrey of ilaice ; G. Vcrtasm , Wm. Hotehkiss of New Tacitland tf Ohio ; Jas. F. Joy of V. Corning of Wisconsin ; Lewis Congress. In the course ot the debate on these resolu tions, a resolution was efferei by Mr. C. A. King of Ohio, providing, in the event that the Ameri can Government shall fail to construct or the State cf New York interposes obstacles to a ship canal on the American side, an appeal to the Canadian government for an enlargement of the while they greatly relieve the people of tha; State in the matter of taxes, are unceceMar '7 burdensome upon others. Passenger and merchandise traffic wilt alxajs bear the same ratio to produce traffic. The pn -duoe traffic from the West will be in proportion to transportation. If wheat ean be transported from the West to the seaboard for from 1- to : " cents per bushel, it can command the markets f fcngianj and r ranee. If it costs 2t or 39 cents, owa. V.'. Iogersoll of Mia- i This w.s briefly supported by Mr. Benedict of f ilm.t cf Michigan . J. I Vermont, who offered in lieu of further remarks ! tion. r It tic 1 urii cf M mtrea', being in the inme f"ooi the meeting of the i f Trade at St. Louis, with sev . ban gentlcrcoa, they were by ted to set's in the Convention, 7 was caVi upon tD a-I tress the HK- 1 MS 'lUfVi '..d Tne quesyon is. how to get :rom the Northwest to the sea Vt'aah.nston Treaty the peop'eof i 1 !'- hue the same righ's and in- 1 he - Lawrence as has Canada, and it tL- jest outlet fu the ocean, he said . r r . ng L'juiinioa BjarJ of Trade in racali. S.t right nor do we speak for car ins tb it 'he wa) to r.' -in Uiitn"'.' We merely speak as merchants lo rt-fbru it, as itstva teat i'zi c .r.'-stly ia devising means whereby 1;, t ; ll spec.e r-Ayraents is o re- j tit sjmf, a- i that the work 1 dioe if the i're.- i war tr unt wilt appt "t Lonelu fit persons to ooW, I tnit we ft" reran. 1 it that th,' i resJrnt cannot knuw i I-i f ersona! y tlioiv wb pi he appoints, an I be nius', ' rr' Ul " ttirt'f. rc, U'pend t-i'tiLT uron re 'oc iat:- ne pietl. or upon eiaanuatu.ns. ttut metboJ, and the fi :r: jcu e met here to-day to for- ' l'twopi In b'. Louie we stated ted that if the Government of the could utter to exchange the natural : !-th couatnes upon equal terms and t: stratiun of ships built in Canada as 1 the rvjommen latmns which are presealed to the President and the aSfcretaries. We know, t.r instance, that tbir 1'resident was oece veh'1m cr.fly urgetj tv arpinta man tj a rcspnsi e tar.anc.al pr-v.ti 'n lie was perscary uokaown tj the i'.e-'JeDt, ba be bad cords of certifict'es, anl he was cliietiy pressed by a conspicu,uj centlrmaa in the party Uut counter certificates a-p ircd, anl fatal evidence of incapacity, bal ha'' tf, a:: 1 probiUe dishonesty. The erideiicc wat shown to the cjnfpicuous gentleman, aiiJ lie was askel what should oe done Arpnt Lim ' app-jint bim was his reply. itit 11 the I'rcciJent cannot trust reon n.fD latmns of fitness and no President can then tbere em'tos no other course than to ascer ta.n it by esarainat:cn. To do this the-e must "c ej-ne cietooJ Nuw a method can bees t1 iishc 1 enly Ly refrulations, aad rei-ulations j must necessarily be the result of caref.il conml- 1 eratun. The 1'resident in his mesrage plainly aays mat tongress n-ji given nia power to in augurate a civil ssrvioe reform. Me acknowl edges, with his critics, that be is the man to do , it. uut co one who understands the condition of the service supposes that regulations for re I form can be improvised in a morning. And it is certainly unreasonable to aoeuie the President of merely promising and really intending to do notning because he takes care that what he does shall be so matured as to have a fair prospect of securing the reform which the country desires. 1 tar per t n eeu;j. Thefotnier ,s the prts- .lu-cncan, we behevci the Canadian Govern- tt'unr knows the Taiue of . -iicn: w J 1 enlarge the whole system of canals The Cob in Question Late intelligence from the consul-general at Havana indicates that the abuses in oar civil service, cf wbese existence all them from the Fcect. ih,;r u inteiirgctoe nave . - . uw. .-..1 1 1 1 . n . .1 . . , . . ...... 1 r" rc iaai me aero recital cr them Tfas exceedingly tiresome ; the enly thiog Senator Schnrz Sfnator Schuri of Missouri, enjoys the disre putable d'.itinetion of bang the only Republican I situation cf affairs in that oity is Tery much Senator who has declared without qualiacetioc more serious than heretofore reported, and the his determination to "bolt" if Geo. Grant should necessity for strong force in its vieinity, far the b- renominated for the Presidency. Senator protection cf American life and property, im- Sonner, in all his hitter denunciation and perative. Members of the cjmmittee on forrirn acrid abuse of the Uiecutivehts been very care- afiairs state the attitude and tone of the State lul never to avow such an intention. Senator department npon our Cuban policy has under- Trumbull, never other than a oold friend of the gone a very marked change daring the recess of aarainiatration. has bit lately sjwken with great Congress, and that the recent minora of a more franinras, sajing that the ntterarces of the Ere- decided stand in the defence of our own rights entire in his recent cwtsage had gone far to and for the protection of the Cubans are Trell- reoove bis etrcngest grounds for public disagree- fonnded. Ihe influence and representations of ' the Sianish minister are of perceptibly less .ivuteiaouswioreinecouniryvragging eight nith the Secretary of Statj than they his wise head in deprecation of Grant's re-nomin- Bere a few months ago. in ftct are weaker than aticn, and advertising his intention to deprive at aoy previous time since the outbreak of the the President of the immenrc moral inflaence Cuban rebellion. It stated tc-day on good that he imagines is inseparable from hi. voice authority that ahculd the report, of enlarged and his vote. Senator Schuri ha. busied him- fiect! anJ other hostile demonstrations by the self during the rte, of Congress with deliver- Spaniard, in Cuban water,, in consequence cf .eg an elaborate lecture, concerning Civil Ser- tfce recommendation, of Ihe President's message. .... . tn-iure on us own merits is prove true, recognition by the government of hardly more worthy of it. author', reputation ,he belligerent rights of the Cuban insurgent, than h,s lecture cu rr.nHin " wa. worthy of w, probtUy fo!Iolr Klthoilt Jel the late Mr. Edward Everett. It told of c-rtain . The Washington Treaty The arbitrators, under the Treaty of Wash- ington, appointed for the consideration of the respective claims of Great Britain and the it:..i a. . n .... with tho.r rr;,i .!, v.... r,i I m r nuay at in note! ac Hue, and Rutland and Burlington railroads the first ' ueD"-- oompcied of men the few years tbey were run. " By the tenth of this month, trains a il run regularly from Duluth to Red River, a distance of about two hundred and fifty mi!e. " It would surprise 30U to see thr numit.r of passengers aad the amount of freight daily tran sported over this line, through a country which two years gj was settled hy no more than half a dozen white men, within ten miles of the lice between Lake Superior and the Red Rive of the north. There are now more thau one thousand families settled along the country borderine the Northern Pacifi! railroad " lo be anjthlrg that the alninistration reed atrnggle to cocceil. History is simply repeat log ittelf, and party " rote heads" have come to be as periodical a visitation to political organin-tior-ain power as certain pesteriog diseases are to the human btdy that are certainly irritating to the skin, but never endanger life. The party skin may look angry, the pirty heart ia all right Coiircucar Er-ccATios.-Uy ,he provUions of lis education bid, ialrodocel in the French Assembly by Jules Simon, parents are compelled to send their children regularly to school during a certain period of each year, the expense, of education, including m.p,, bocks, etc, to be borne by tbs government. that makes this lecture worth referring to, was its evident intention to make the President and hia Cabinet responsible for these long time abuses to abrcga'e which the President had more than once appealed to Schuri and his fellow Senators. While this philosophical " sore-head was making this disingenuous attempt to fasten re sponsibility where it did net justly belong, the President has been engaged fcr many months with no less man than George William Curtis in deliberating upon the best plan to be adopted, for presentation lo Congress, to secure the re formation cf these very abuses that Mr. Schuri, like all hi, clique, cares mere to criticise than to cure. Theplanframelby Mr. Curtis, anl ap proved by the President, deprives Congressmen According to a report from the census effice made to Congress cn Monday, there are in the states and territories 3.4ES,475 male citizens over 21 year, of age, of whom 4J.S29 are de prived of the right of tu&rigc for causes other thsn crime or rebellion. The figures ia five of the New England states are given ia the follow ing table : Deprived of suffrage. S10 CS9 107 I, 219 II, 835 Mate citizens. Maine, 163 ICO New Hampshire, S3.301 Vermont, 74 867 Massachusetts, 312,770 Rhode Island, 13,93c New York has 9S3,2K voters, and only -SC9 male citizen, deprived cf luffrage for the causes spesified. It thus appears" that Rhode Island, with less than 44,000 who might be voters, ex. eludes almost exactly as many as the four north ern New Eogland states, with nearly 625,000 who might be voter.. The deq'sion of the Beoningtrn County Court in the case of Adam v. the First National Bank of Bennington, settle for the present one point in banking custom,, of considerable im poitance ; and will render it necessary for banks hereafter to take even more pains for se curity of bends end pledges in their possession aa " collateral," than they do with those on special deposit for safe keeping. Whea tho First Nations! Bank, abive named, waa robbed, August 8, 1868, among the prop erty stolen were United States bonds to the amount of 6,000, which hid been deposited by Enos Adams as collateral security for two notes. One of the ni,tes had become due, and was paid. before the roDbery. The decision of the Court is that the bank muit pay Adams for that part of the stolen boads, S3, 600, whioh was security fcr the unpaid note It would seem from this decision, that bonds on deposit as" collateral muit be taken oare of with all pouiblc pre:autions for security, to enable tie bank to eseipe liability for them id cate cf theft ; tut bands oa deposit for safe keep ing only, having received ordinary care, are at the depositor's risk. The testimony, which was very voluminous, turned mainly on the point of sufficient cire on the part of the bank in taking charge of Adams' funds, a, the robbsrs failed to get into the inner saie, aai Auams Dona, were in ths outiiJe safe. 000. This case will of coarse be made decisive, in several other inits against the bank to recover similir lcsies. It may be stated that the bank, at the tima of the robbery, offered to re-imburse AJaxs to the amount of these collaterals for the unpaid note ; most eminent in law and politics, lion. Charles Francis Adams represents the United States, and Chief Justice Alexander Cockburn, Great Britain. The King of Italy has named Count Sclopie, an eminent juritt ; and Jacob EetampSI, an able statesman of Stritzeiland, has beea named by the President of theSsiiss Convention. Baron de Itajubs, Envoy Extraordinsry and Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil at Paris, is the arbi trator appointed by the Emperor of Brazil. The labor before them is immense. The case of the United States, prepaied by Mr. Bancroft Davis ana reieea by J utfe Hoar, K. II. Dana, jr., and others, is alone said to farm a volume of five hundred rajes. This is sunDorted bv seven urge volumes ot documentary evidence and matter bearing on the case. In these arc to be found : The diplomatio correspondence on Rebel belligerency and English neutrality laws ; the correspondence about rebel operation, ia Canada ; vessels of British build in the service of the Rebel, ; correspondence respect ing the Alabama, the Tallahassee anl Shenandoah ; negotiations concerning claims ; proclamations and declarations of powers other thau Great Britain, issued subsequently to the Queen's proclamation of neutrality ; the journal of the Alabama, and an account of her destruc tion by ihi Keanarge the correspondence of the British government with the Lairds m reference to their ircn-clads; the correspondence of Gen. Grant's administration with the English government, anl the documents relating to the new treaty ; a history of our neutrality laws ; the new British foreign enlistment act; and cur claims for damages. The claims of the govern ment for actual damages amount to $7,0S0,478. 70. The claims for constructive datnA?es. hv in jury to commerce in tho transfer cf our mer cantile marine to foreigners, the rise of in- suranco premiums and national expenditures in pursuit or retei cruisers ; the pro longation cf the war. and for loss of cnblio veisefc, cargoes, etc., will add greatly to the amount. These latter claims arc to be urged strongly by the counsel for the United Statea : Messrs. Cashing. Erarts and Waite. Concern ing them the principal struggle is expected. They represent such an enormocs money value that it ia expected by msny parties, and espec ially the enemies ot the treaty, that their allow. ance will be stoutly resisted. The private claims for damages presented, and forming part of the volume of claims, amount to 14,000,- tr.iA n Lead cf the lakes to the ocean, and that r..et ' would be adapted by which the canals cou! 1 te made to go into Lake Champlain, and tho 1 cit ron!ts could be obtained. The Welland act! w has the capacity to take vessels through 1 1 of -Wi toas burthen. .Mr Shanley, an einin it engineer, the present coat-actor of toe ,i - 'sac lunuel, a man or very great ability, 1 has mrivyed taut whole workod he has adopt e 1 a route for that canal not the present one, j I u milting its natural outlet in the Niagara R i er and the ize of the locks that he suggests j wou' 1 be sufficient 10 p iss vessels of 950 to 1000 tons t urthen. That canal, as you are aware, is ' on'y miles loaf. We have had surveys cfthe rap Is of the St. Lawrence made, and tbbre is no obstacle ia the downward trip, excepting these : miles of canal, for a 1,000 ton vessel coming d wn from Montreal to Qurbeo without tran shipment; and the result ct such a vessel carry ing 50,mK) bushels of g am, or perhaps 60,000, wouia oe sucu ioai 11 wouia reduce traosnorta- tion to the least possible rate. Then it has been suggested in rek-rence to La stern trade that a canal should be constructed from the St. Law rence into Lake Champlain. Sana a canal has also been survejed by several engineers. There has been no difference of opinion amongst any of those engineers. There are only 25 feet of look age between the St. Lawrence and Lake Cham plain, and that canal is 30 1-2 miles long, so that with 5t miles cf canal yoa could reach Lake Champlain at Burlington or Whitehall. where you can deliver Western produce ibr the supply of New Eogland and all the country around it. Then again, it ought to be remarked that the export trade of this eountrv ii a mm. tithe of the trade for home oocsumptiou. The ii sue 01 me xasieru oiaies iar exceeds the ex port trade, for, of the great bulk cf property that flows from the Wrat to the East, more thau five-eighths is consumed in the East, aal only w" mi csiud w v-ipurieu. lie believed that mete ia no engineer who, if Be Had tne cnoice, would locate a canal around -niagara fans on tne American side. The Wei- iana tanai opens in tne spring from 10 to 1 days earlier thsn the port of Buffalo. As a nl he had observed that canals on the north side of me et. Lawrence open earlier in the spring than do those on the south side. Mr. FhanW 1 1 1 .v.. ,t .. . ... ' lin-j cffumaieu mai 10c cost or enlarging toe Welland Canal would be about S5.20O.0OO. II. Delieved it would cost double that amount to build a canal on the American side The bet possible route, irreepec'ive of country, should be auopicil. 1 pe ireaiy 01 ir asftinzton his broken down all barricis between the two countries. e are really one people, rnrunz from one w. . , .-. ..v.i u,,v,cLO , IBCIC IS UO longer any need of preparation for war : m let us emulate eaoh other in the develonment rl our inuuairiai una commercial interests. The remarks of Mr Vounir were receive! wim applause. Mr John McLennan, of Moatreal.waj next in troduced, and spoke briefly. He said the St. Lawrence does not belong to Canada exclu sively, bat to mankind. The development of this great country is only in its beginning. Let us unite in accelerating this development. He said w.!i. - i 1 . r . -ii cwwoi am eacoriro. ine amcunc 01 grain welland and St. Lawrence Carta's commensurate , i.:-l ... o,- . j j . i-"- wJ,IUCuBuiie wal(!!, tnc ajjjt aa projUCe depends upon the to the present and growing commerce of the market for it, and the growth of the country depends upon the productiveness of labor. 1 regret that 1 cannot attend the convention, leave to submit the foregoing observa- also send sou a Ban of the New York of his own, and as of more value than anything Canal, which also will show you the proposed tie could oSer, a letter from Hon. Levi Under- 1 "'""1 ana use Lnampiam route, wood, President of the Burlington Board of I ' """""'Clsnovw Trad. This letter wai read, and ordered pnb- 1 Burlington, Dec. , 1S71. liahed with the proceedings cf the convention, I To tne President of the Commercial Conventua, aad was ailuled toby delegates, ia the discus- j 'aeroit sion following, ia terms of high compliment for j CoXheiss Mosd it. In the Senate Monday, its broad views and comprehensive eutement ot amoner the netitions received waa one fron the 1 facts. I enclose a copy of the letter which you 1 negroes of Rhode Island, stating that they were ' .rd,fb. I - r. - p.-- : uouBced that they should present a resolution in j " 1 npp!etnentary civil rights bill. Mr. Ci favor of the Fux River Canal, and in response ling offered a resolution directing the retrench- 1 i aa appeal from several delegates against meat committee to investigate ths charg.j of IDt'ie "trai "?. the report, I f . . . m . , debate on the retrenchment reaolation, elsewhere reported, wm exciting mud laatej until ten o'clock t nijtbt Mr. Cusetij of Ca'.ifornin, democrat, vu Edded to the committee. A bill wis In! p.- ; duoed direr:in- tht the national bukj sh&lL have three per cent in fold coin of tneir cir- j cul&licn oa hand Jantnry lit, 1871, increwinj ; by the presentation of additional nrriecta. Mr. la'tV . L. J V ! i "iiuuivw on reioiaiios. Tae following resolution o2;rel by Col. Rob .moo of WicoDHo, wat afterwards added to the report, without opposition as a harmless conces non to the wishes of the Northwestern delegates RetoUtif, That one cr more water routes by which the teamboatN cf ilic Mississippi can reach the harbors ani onload icto the veswla of tne great lakes are of such .portaooe to to many States east and west that if ht becjme matter of National importance The report, that amended, wu unaDtmoosty adopted amid considerable applause, and the Convention, at a late hour on VtiDesdy night. Ai an evidence of ths nteni ti which the ! cera appointing and Congressmen recomixenJ country it becoming arcaed :o the need of im proved water transportation between West and frcm preciri'j' the m.- . v-' In conaw.jueoue . r s i r turned oat rushb- tr, v ' usicees iLt'-mmi j 3 .: for carpenur frotn i i m but :n the prixz ai ?-i p'umb-bob from a p-fc -ti z?? tmpl-jjcect at g-i . . are in letnand at Ir .ii V.. I IVee c ltrV-. I . r aae of bis larMSt : r- i in the wa.! f r tbi t- been wor:h ? 13 a . .b i: tha jou wili Netha' in.' . Mr. Ptee ci:.wti i- r . corn ci of tin. Vi -'4 p evailel uanaf t ' . stopped t be rebuild , ir i I 1 more iare cjnrracti sprto. I have to: .i; yet I t - the coram lain ner ci mi r-' -i ' ' and shall wait until 1 jj t) ' to write up the Vera-.' fe.- l.-y aa I :-ll j u rf r c i-f lt ' H J KiwarJS cf Ho'-'arj j godolilale S'toejera pocket book, ar-1 leaving son 1-y . some of h ell f-i!i,l, 'r-r tl -pecunious Vermor.'e7- itc eUzsel ?:ace ti u. an 1 all t'. have written a? a.".-.: them th " Cr. by cash t.) t " and l!i on the corner ot c. Lais aui . worth 10,(H t B.sUes tn.', i a healthy r.n tf re r.rj icxs a i Harry has a crupie rf weaS,n.s. ' inheriled and ooe ar-g i red. a trotting hose, and an i x laavt: a. t deg and gun. Withai u, a r Vcrmonter, an I asha hi. know about Toanksitr. :a: 1 'earned cut W -t. East, by the avav of the lakes and the St. Lsw- rencc, the Convention waa a notable event. It-haa contributed also importani inforoation to the stock of public knowledge oa tae subject, aad though its chief aim in the matter of an .mericau Niagara Ship Canal may fail, the Con vention cannot but be productive" on the whole, of good. Yours, G. Tar FiXASi-ut Oi .... : Ti lies does n t take a -j :,i immelLite future of :v w r ' iajs down th proposi. . i. is cu,m;rsti2g in og' i , w thereafter, and that when fifteen per cent, is ! averted, whites an..;, ,j reaeheJ they keep a reserve in gold instead of ' w,!e or '-'' -wsvunii:- 1 -. legal tender. ' fjr the c mijg cavt'i t a ' In the House, bills were intrcJuoed to punish ttom ,he neT PJ 't-!' k otneials for bribery aad corruption, to mane tE'-it m':c !o r,erun .- - ei ""-umj aau ioe ''o i : .'at . . tr.lL.rn - ... . icg msoonesc ana incompetent c&ciale respon- e,tht fortnighily msta :- r.-- -sible for their misconduct, legaliaiaz polygamiat ' sum will necessarily ro -i-aro - marriages in Ctah anl dismissing prosecutions lhe k of Eo c 1 ," there for polygamy, to amend the articles of war, to repeal the bankruptcy act. to admit Ctah as a State, to remove all political dis abilities, ud to enlarge the capitol grounds. A resolution, introduced by Mr. Hoar, was ttTTKR raoii BO LtVl vxnaosT ovxawooD or j unanimously adopted, expressive of sympathy From the Mississippi to Tide Water- 1 wita " all eftbrtt to establish self-govern meat and republican institutions, and with ths families and friends of ail who have loft their lives either ia the field or or. the scaffold ia the cause of civil libetty." Mr Butler introduced a bill declaring women en titled to suffrage under the fourteenth amendment. rrutnled at tte CoonneretW Conreniioa al 1 flrtroif, Dec. IS.', 1871. I Sis I have been appointed by the Board of Trade of this city a delegate to attend ths oon vestioD to be held ia Detroit, on the 13th hut i to consider the subject of opening water com- I mumcation from the Mississippi River to the ' Atlantic seaboard. 1 have given to this suljeot a good dexl of I have heard a great deal ia my time of the sentiment. - .lmenca r Americans, Canada fcr Canadians," but I believe the St. Lawrence aun tit rivers oi mat kind were made for man kind ; and I hope to sec the day when that great river will not be jours, will not be ours, but when it shall be used fir the common benefit of taeworu. iappianse.J We on the other side have our little rrrtt.-hei. We have some little vanities about governing ourselves in our own wsy. Perhaps they arc uivic uuuvc.u, uu peinapa toere may be some gem of wisdem at the bottom of them. Wc do not doubt that yoa are very competent to govern yourselves, and we respect your institution, and your laws. Wc think we can live side hv aad have this great highway aad maay other tuic&o in buuuiuu, auu mai we can enjoy them thus none the less because we differ in some matters that do not concern our common use cf tbem. The nrosneritT of the Em n.l tk. tr.., i. rnds more upon securing cheaper transport or the products of the ooniitr. it... . other one thins. And the Question is. w i this be beet aooomplishcd ? The plan of eonneetinv ik. u;.-!..:...: a?: nitl. f it. ai:-i..-.i0 . . ; - '""s,ii oy sanai is a proper matter lor Congress to act upon, aad the subject is now before Congrcsa. I am satisfied that to connect this with the scheme of the Niagara Ship Canal, on the New 1 or k side, win be likely to defeat the whole plan and defer the construction of the Foi Hirer Canal. Ifa canal should be made on ihe east aide of the Niagara, it will be of small value, unless a " o opened, or the same capaeity. from Oswego to Albany. " Should the Uoited States provide for the Nia gara Canal, and avoid the Welland Canal, it will be understood to be to na Ttinl.t, ; ,t- . of war, and Caca.la wiU not be likely to permit thi. to be connected with Lake Champlain br way of the St. Lawrence River. ' tne most feasible, best ami .tu... t. accommoaate tne greatest amount of business is hv n ti.- i. , Canal, Sl Lawrence Rtvor and Lake Cham- The Wel'anl Canal i 2S mil.. i, ;.t. o- locksaalSSOfcetoflociave. Thi. ,1 a vjuai vau ac vm?. o aeoommodate steam propellers of 1.000 tons for about 53,500,000. This will (uu,c , c,,-cio io Dass irotn I -o t-i. Ontario, thence into the Si I. n: , , ,u, noi down toCanghnawaga.at the head of the Lv chine Lapids. nine miles above Mnr,i.i :.v out the use cfthe St Lawrence Canals on down trips, using those canals oa up trips only, thus securing an open and free lake and down stream navigation frcm Tort lialhouaie. sin T.mt nn. rio, to Caaghnawaga-3-JU miles. A canal of the lame capacity can he rr-.tv-rwi Caashnawaj-a to Lake Champlain - di.tanee 291-2-and with tesi than 30 feet of lockairr ' c.'JW,uw LtlliC 1 himn o n f,. : . t-. . "y"!'1 ". frm St. Johns to Whitehall New England will draw its sup plies of Weetern rroduee from r Irn r" plain. "UIU- I send herewith a printed pamphlet of the proceedings or tho Boston Board of Trade in .May, 18,0, and beg to call your atteutiou to a letter of J. B. Jlil s.lin.. .mtn... ... whn b.. .n....l .a.:. -' '.1 T" "S"?':-'' aTi,rV.i ' '""luuiv.joapagoL'J. Also "u F'S11 -. ""ten taken from cSicial renorU. ehowin? th. ne , , . ra - j wa vi tuiiij; auii dosing cf the Lria and Welland Canals for 0 years. fron 1818 to 1868. wbi.a. .l., " euanii Lanal has been open, upon an average. 21 days etch year lonirer th.ntl,,. tne Canal. Through all this mass of evidence and list of claims, printed in various langusges.it will be necessary for the tribunal to toiL The work commenced in earnest on Monday. Its progress will be watched with the most interne interest throughout the world, and it will decide ques tions not oclr for the United State, and Gmt n.:.: a... :n j ...... ... hebrought.uitfor.he whole, and recover, the h.veTu important .iT." amount above .tatel. tional controversies. Whiio the C-immittcc on Resolutions were out. along letter was read fromaa old geotleman 80 years of age, of Lesiston, N. X., giving a de tailed history of the eCrts to secure a ship canal around Niagara Falls on the American side, with estimates of the probable cost. A long protest frcm the Buffalo Board of Trade was also presented and read , giving the reason, why they did not approve and would not attend the Con vention j declaring the Erie Canal sufficient, with proposed improvements, for all present pur- count must follow. a"et i depression of securies, -cd a r roarACt. Add to tn:s the il - -other derangements tj ir ee fr. m I tiens of Bussua. Gn-miiiv o I . .- , I corresponding effects ii r. that must reBal: from a c.in t.-ntat i I Tin's tninks it tclerar.j clear -, I is iikely to be the best uf v.ru.s t engaged ia financial op,a',jt.j ' la Eattlaai a crava .a ti. j change. Legitimate v. nes- r greatly, hat'tte bibtile c in i , I there are many .if a ni-.i 7 s; , . ter. owing to the rVtfnrc . 1 market, will go I j th- bt ,r !. Of Ihe effect of this uvn' j upon ourselves, the Ti n- ions may reasoai' 'y -1 . Lr. Chi -ago disaster has no: ! ;n cannot becvalei ; and a i -i Ihe country is cn tie whj " no r.ght to expe c exi t - o'j l quences of a mouet-iry ja.. a .. can we hope to avert rin-n. w . of our Government, waer - c- -or expansion If g -id is fro,ar ' European use, g M lo t' ex o ti- war 1 of our national srcuru;e be' i Cosaaass. TtnesPAT. -In the SenaUr. the bill appropriating 84.000,000 for government buiU- mgs ia Chkago was passed. Mr. Stewart in troduced a bill proposing a sixteenth ameal ment, establishing free school, in each S ate and Territory, aad prohibiting aid to sectarian schools, which weat to the iudwiarv eomtclite. Mr. Samner gave notice that he should propose i 80'Jra !'rt '" S1 n ...J. . .. .. .f I of our national stcur w umuwii tne rresnaeBtaoldic? i .. . .. effioemore than one term. A bill was intro- ! ligation, let the T-.mt, teliev, uuoed aad referred to punish stock-gambling by ""UJ enterprises aid puouc officers. The retrenchment committee I waa directed to inquire whether any minister of I oar government bad used hiscsSsial influence in ! delusive schemes b to o: the interest of aas- mining if- ni I to cheat the pul Iu atd 1 I . ,.i t : .: :uai-rings muvt ere los ou ina retrenchment committee. The Sergeaat-at-Arm was directel to arrest Saunders, a refractory witness in North Carolina. In the Hoose, the banking committee was .n structed to investigate the recent suspension of national banks. noM taetr owa ; but .t can hi' i that the ' watered ' ri -any., paying e-irporat: ns f th, t itur.-' -jo a lose i over ' - letJ they are ! oatac yarn. Ti sccun- litis "g ' c rigs', uot wc weicome the ; aa f.mishia; another lilt; - -1' : the tvi! is ifieutiBBeaQverTu.t 1 1 days etch year longer than the The present Champlain Canal connects Lake Champlain with tide-water at Tmv t.it. :- miles lockage SO feet. Competent engineer, w ..V x,miEeJ thi. route, among whom are Mr. Mill, and Mr. McAInin. I.i. . c , , 1: - m iue oi new i on, are oropinioa that thi. canal can be enlarged from Whitehall to Fort Edward and from thence by dam. in the Hudson River to Troy, to accommodate steam nroDellers nf ii. same capacity as above named forSS.OOOOOflL Thur, a steam nrooeller carrvin -10 nnn a,'.v.,. of wheat, or it. equivalent in flour, can load on Lakes Michigan or Saperior. or (with the Fox River Canal built) on the Mississippi River, and go through Lake Champlain to New York with out breaking bulk. The Committee on appropriations of the House of Representatives, on Monday agreed to report Judge Poland', bill to pay ths expenses of the Joint Southern Outrage Committee, cutting down the amount frcm forty to tweaty-sevn thousand dollars. The Judge also introduce! a bill ia the iiouac to confer jurisdiction in the Court of Claims to adjust the account of Brevet Brusdiei Qeaeral B. 8. Roberts. It was referred to the Committee on Claims. lie like site introduced au important bill in relation to ocean telegraphs. I; ineorpotates John F. .Miller. William O. Fargo. Paul Spoflord, Perry McDonald, Collin, aad others. commissioners on Ihe part of the United States to open subscription books for two ocean tele graphs, cue from the western coast of the United Stites to China and Japan, the other from the Atlantic coast to Europe by the way of the Ber. raudss and the Asorts, or by any oilier way ap proved by the President The etoek of the Atlantic Company is SxeJ at eight million., and the Ptci3c Company at twelve million, of dol lar. The bill was referred to tat Forejin Committee. The apportionment bill, patted by the Ilonte Thursday, provides for a Houss of 288 members, all of whom in 1876 aal ths year, followiag are to be elected a. Cen. Batler proposes, ca a uniform day ia November. Ia the new appor tionment Massachusetts gain, and Vermont and New Hampshire each lose a member, and by the bill no btate will be entitled to admission and representation until it has the requisite number of voters to entitle it ti a representa tion. The bill, in its main features, gives gin era! satisltcticn to both parties. The country will rejoice to leira that the re potted illness of the Hon. William IL Seward is entirely untrue. His health i. as good as for years pait. Chicago Rt.Lna. The I i -ijj . uously rccimmenis tha es al .sUj - ' u'i for Ch:cago r'!3s !.'' as ample Among the ranst uf ( a-.i -backs. Forafewdats e.rte-j and before the banks ,;vi-f .. -. -bill leaked as big ai a bel Uao, banks opened there were gri rnM their place as reius was ft 1 About ao uncomfortat '.' a i I left was a safe. L'nlik Mr T -with the name of TbompM a. ir. : i not a handy thin tn bav- n , only acbeme fur a ni3nuojt.i of -another great firesht,u.d oon-.r be among the first things I 1 e A good rel.o of the fire . ai r It m wotta more as a rehc tiiao i There will ce no difficulty it, keep be the last thing on ta-ih mat ai ever steal. An insurance roiK'r 1 crnipaay would be a gr-. I lli ' anaoog your papers ot t i tie. I burglar-proof. If a tt.:;f sh..i I across it he would dnp the w' valaeiesa The banks ecu! I nia., donation cf diseouottd puiper en .i' mat tooa place just before the ) collateral The New York Exprtu teiis a f x General Butler. W bile he waa i a c- . New Orleans he rath-r foreed th t. i glance on a confederate cflWrwc - After taking the oath th? coote, r-i Butler : ' Ain't I a fiki-1 a Cn'in n i now. General?" " Yes, -f ; m ji oath," rejoined Ben. " Aui I cau a' South as loud aa lh" w r- "fyi-u"' c tbetfDcer. " To y.-jr hiif-cuiitrnt " Batter. - We! . !bn, li rral," aille ! I man, risiog tn bed. ai. I " a ag ' B .tl 'r eye, with hik two, !' ' ilhadthar M rebel, Lee ia ou- f ', wouMa : i hi. watch!" The oai i :aer got fine ' the gnard-aoose, but he s i 1 he was r aatiifiedwith Ihe pries hefi.d for it Late despatches from Mexico a-eti:--' that, insteal cf the levolu'ionteur jr." at an end,anar:hy ci'cticucs, c ip crease, and the government ai;t - 7 ' cumb, and all is discord.