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r , *. . x ' •>. ••. •, - . »•«>. '» ..V F Jfte JtlciKiirn fllamtatn. J. VAN SL¥X£» iTJBiisHF.n. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. tfEWS OF THE WEEK. FEDERAL APP OINTMENTS. Ex-Senator George S. Boatwell, to be a Com­ missioner to prepare new edition of Revised Statutes. John C. Lee. to be United States District At­ torney for the Northern District of Ohio. Jesse H. Moore, Pension Agent at Spring­ field, HL John McFarJnnd, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Detroit. Mich. Philip H. Emerson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. Henry Fisk, United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Michigan. Thomas L. James. Postmaster at New York. James M. Wilkinson. Receiver of Public Moneys at Marquette, Mich. Jesse Hildrup, United States Marshal [for the Northern District of Illinois. Orlando H. Merwin, Postmaster at Evanston, HI. Thomas Jernegan, Surveyor of Customs at Michigan City, Ind. M. J. Waldron, Marshal for the Western Dis­ trict of Tennessee. George F. Dick, Postmaster at Bloomington, uu . S. tL Evans, Marshal for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Michael Piggott, Postmaster at Quincv, 111. Edward Russell, Postmaster at Davenport, Iowa. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The city of Pesth, in Hungary, was visited, on the 12th and 13th of March, by one of the heaviest snow-storms on record. The storm . raged for forty-eight hours, blocking up the railways and stopping traffic. The snow was from three to twelve feet deep. The official organ of Montenegro says Russia intends to go to war. Nobody can expect Montenegro to keep peace in that event. Everything is not so lovely as it was between Turkey and the Servians and Montenegrins. The latter insist on considerable cessions of territory, which the Sultan's ministers are un­ willing to make; and a misunderstanding has also arisen in relation to the evacuation of posts on the Servian border. The election, a few days ago, of M. Dupuy de Lowe, a Bonapartist, to the life-Senator- ship made vacant by the death of Gen. Chan- gamier, was brought about by a coalition of all the factions hostile to the republic of France, and is therefore commented upon in* London and Paris as a political event of grave significance. The London Daily Telegraph is in receipt of letters from Henry M. Stanley, dated as late as the 13th of August last. The intrepid ex­ plorer had completely explored Lake Tangan- jfta. The Khedive of Egypt has formally, through the British representative at Cairo, renewed and confirmed his father's gift to Great Britain of"Cleopatra's Needle." Preparations for its removal to London are progressing. London papers of the 16th inst. officially an- ^ notmoe that Mr. Elliot will very shortly resume \ his duties as Ambassador from Great Britain to Constantinople, and that it is probable that Elliot's return will be followed by that of the Ambassadors of the other great powers. Interesting items from the happy land of Mexico: United States Minister Foster reoognizes Diaz as President de facto, but will not formally re­ cognize him as President de jure until after the meeting of Congress and his inauguration. --The Senate has been ignored by the Provis­ ional Government, who have declared that the law creating the Senate was forced by Lerdo appointing his friends. Diaz, however, prom­ ises to observe the constitution when not too in­ convenient.--A religions procession in Merida was dispersed by the military.--A man was tor­ tured at Cuernavaca for the purpose of ob­ taining information about secreted arms.-- Crowds in the capital on Monday shouted, " Hurrah for Diaz and death to foreigners." It is announced that IgnatielTs mission to London has resulted in an ajrangement be­ tween the English and Russian Governments relative to the terms of the protocol on the Turkish question. England proposed certain modifications to which it is believed Russia will readily accede, and thus the attempt to bring the moral suasion of Europe once more to bear upon the stubborn Turk is in a fair way to succeed. A dispatch to the London Timet from Pera states that the Revolutionary Committee at Athens has sent a circular to the various com­ mittees in Crete, declaring that the watchword to rise will soon be given. The Arab tribes of Yemen have revolted. The Turkish commander of that district asks for reinforcements. From the latest budget of Japan news it ap­ pears that the Satsuma rebellion is a rather tenous affair. Its proportions and incidents are concealed by the Government as far as pos Bible, but it is known that the disturbance causes much uneasiness at the capital, and that extraordinary efforts are made for its sup­ pression. POMBBTIO NEWS. Ea«t. Feter M. Penwell and wife, of Elmira, N. Y. owing to domestic disagreements, took arsenic with the view of suicide. The poison failing to cause death, Penwell, with an ax, killed his wife, and then cut 14* own throat, but not suf­ ficiently to keep him out of 1&iL The Legislature of Connecticut has passed a law fixing the legal rate of interest in that State ftt6per'c«nt three years in advance, they could not open the doors Churoh to Uim, perhaps he migtened •naked lit under the canvass.--^-bags Bulletin. iisap- dles, and who has been an exile for the v>ast five years, has returned to New York city. He has not been taken into custody, because it was ar­ ranged with the Attorney General that if he would return and be present at tho trial against him all proceedings, civil and criminal, so far as arresting him, should be suspended during the trial and for thirty days afterward. Thomas W. Thompson, of Westfield, N. Y., has been arrested and held for trial on a charge of using the mails to fraudulently obtain money from relatives of deceased parties of the late Ashtabula disaster, his modus operandi being to write to relatives of deceased friends stating he had in his possession certain articles belong­ ing to deceased, and upon receipt of stipulated sums would forward the articles named, signing his name " Victor Bennett." The pris­ oner offered no defense, pleading guilty to the charge. The steamer Rusland, bound from Antwerp to New York, was driven on the beach at Long Branch, N. J., by a violent gale, a few nights ago. The passengers and crew, numbering about 160 people, were rescued by the life- saving crew stationed at that point. The steamer will probably prove a total loss. The Pitt Boiler Works, at Pittsburgh, Pa. have been destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at nearly $200,000. West. Chicago elevators, as per official returns, con­ tain 3,380,803 bushels of wheat; 3,273,804 bushels of corn; 772,394 bushels of oats; 242,- 661 bushels of rye, and 881,214 bushels of bar­ ley--making a grand total of 8,550,876 bushels, against 6,540,671 for the corresponding date ast year. McGregor, Iowa, sends forth this: " Charley Ross is again found. This time on the Missis­ sippi river, a fewtniles below this point, with a company of wandering Indians. The boy closely resembles Charley Ross in every feat­ ure." The amount of State taxes levied in Wiscon­ sin this year is $263,815, against $383,827 last year, a decrease of $119,954. Shaffenburg, the ex-United States Marshal of Colorado, has been sent to the penitentiary for two years for signing fraudulent vouchers and in 'other manners robbing the treasury. He became in two short years one of the richest men in the Territory by such means. The Legislature of Colorado has abolished the Grand Jury system, and enacted a law pro­ viding, in lieu thereof, that the Judge • of the County Court and two Justices of the Peace in each county shall sit as a court of indictment twenty days before the court to try driminals, and hear the testimony of both sides previous to the indictment or discharge of prisoners. The Ohio Legislature has enacted a compul­ sory educational law. A cruel and unprovoked murder of Chinamen is reported from Butte county, Cal. Six of these inoffensive people were attacked in their cabin by a band of whites, four of them shot dead, nd a fifth mortally wounded. The sixth es­ caped by feigning death. A party of several hundred men and boys left Minneapolis, Minn., for the Black Hills last week. They go by way of Bismarck. Another murder is reported from Chicago. The victim is Stephen S. Jones, a well-known Spiritualist, and editor of the JReligio-Philo- sophical Journal, the organ of that sect in the West; the slayer, Wm. C. Pike, also a Spirit­ ualist and professor of phrenology. Pike's wife, it appears, was the cause of the trouble. The comedy of " Lemons," which had a suc­ cessful run of several weeks at McVicker's Theater, Chicago, has proved one of the great­ est dramatic attractions that has been presented in that city for many a day.. The play is an adaptation from the German, and was translat­ ed by Mr. Runnion, of the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Dion Boucicault, the famous Irish comedian, in his drama of the " Shaughraun," is the pres­ ent attraction at McVicker's. Harrison B. Nichols, one of the wealthiest citizens of Denver, CoL, was run over by a runaway team and killed, while walking the streets of Council Bluffs, Iowa, a few days ago. A boiler recently exploded in the grist-mill of Hunter Bros., five miles east of Worthing- ton, Ind., killing twelve persons and wounding seven, all that were in the building. The mill was trying a new set of corn-burrs, and, the day being wet, the neighbors had gathered in. The names of the killed are: A. Vanderventer, Japnes Hunter, John Wilkie, John Spettz, a son of J. W. Bender, a son of George Ray, a son of William Hunter, two sons of David Hunter, a Mr. Hamilton, a son of Henry Sarver, a son of Jacob Brubaker. South. 0 The Nicholls Legislature of Louisiana has "Resolved, * * * That this General Assem­ bly will earnestly co-operate with President Hayes in every effort to restore confidence and fraternal relations among the whole people of this great country, and to this end it pledges all the power and influence at its command to secure the great object for which Governments were instituted, viz : to guarantee protection to the life, liberty and property of every human being within its borders." Southern papers chronicle the death of Mad­ ame Octavia Walton La Vert, the well-known authoress. She died near Augusta, Ga., her native State. A large number of the leading business men of New Orleans have telegraphed the President indorsing the resolutions adopted by the Nicholls General Assembly, and assuring co­ operation in restoring confidence and fraternal relations, and guaranteeing protection to the life, liberty and property of alL I The steamer Gov. Garland, bound from Pine j Bluff, Ark., to Memphis, was burned in the Ar- ! kansas river a few days ago. Four passengers ' lost their lives. Boat and cargo a total loss. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel and the Constitutionalist, two of the oldest newspapers in the country, have been consoli­ dated. The former was established in 1857, and the last named in 1799. »&r A W estem newspaper hikiiton, following notice: "All notices of Ooun- rlage, where no bride cake istentjlb€r8 be set up in small tvpe and poked outlandish corner of the paper. a handsome piece of cake is sent1 t!m" notice will be put conBpieuou'kin8" large letters; when gloves or others" re- favors are added, a piece of iliiist gruat poetry will be given in ifclfead or When however, the editor atte'<j dis- person, and kisses the bride, J * nave special notice- very larjjft and most appropriate poetry tr begged, borrowed, or stolen.' " WASHINGTON NOTES. It is rumored that Hon. Carl Schurz will not remain long in the Cabinet. Having fairly en­ joyed the honors of the position, he will re­ sign, it is thought, to accept a foreign mission. The members of the new Cabinet were sworn into office on the 12th inst., and immediately assumed charge of their respective departments. Postmaster General Kev could not take the ironclad oath! and the modified oath was administered to him, After the members qualified, a session, lasting an hour and a half, followed, for the purpose Oi wwmiiifc aC^uttiiiuxi with each other. At the same time there was some talk upon the policy of the administration. But it was only a reiteration of sentiments contained in the in­ augural address. John Q. Smith will be retained as Commis­ sioner of Indian Affairs. The suit fur breach of protuihe against Sena­ tor Simon Cameron Las been withdrawn. Thrt-e is no doubt that the Cuban agitators are about to renew their efforts for recognition. The withdrawal of Fish from the State Depart­ ment and the appointment of Evarts is to be made the basis of the agitation. The pernicious "straw-bid" system which has been practiced heretofore, to a more or less degree, in the letting of mail-route con­ tracts, will receive its quietus under the new administration of the Postoffice Department. No bid will be entertained unless accompanied by a guarantee of personal performance of the service, or a swor^co^gf the contract under which it is to be performed by a third party. Secretary of the Treasury Sherman has de­ cided to retain Mr. Knox as Comptroller of the Currency. Ex-Postmaster General Tyner has been ap­ pointed First Assistant Postmaster GeneraL Fred Douglass has been nominated by the President for Marshal of the District of Co­ lumbia. The forty-third call for the redemption of 5-20 Ijonds of 1865, May and November, has just been issued by the Secretary of tho Treasury. The call is for $10,000,000, principal and inter­ est to be paid at the treasury on and after the 15th of June next, the interest to cease on that day. The following is a description of the bonds : Registered bonds, $100, No. 6,387 to 6,394, both inclusive ; $500, No. 3,974 to 3,976, both inclusive : $1,000, No. 15,164 to 15,177, both inclusive ; $5,000, No. 7,386 te 7,493, both inclusive ; total, $500,000. Coupon bonds, $500, No. 40.401 to 42,300, both inclusive*; $1,000, No. 108,101 to 121,000, both inclusive ; total, $9,500,000. The caucus for the Speakership is quite lively among the Democratic candidates, Randall, Cox, Morrison and Sayler. • Secretary Schurz notifies the subordinates of the Interior Department that his policy will be, briefly: No removals except for cause, and no promotions except for merit. To this announcement the Secretary adds, for the benefit of the thousand-and-one applicants for positions, that there are at present no vacancies in the department. A Washington dispatch says "there is good reason to believe that very few, if any, diplo­ matic changes will be made at present. None of a very important character seem now to be contemplated." It is positively determined that no nominar tion will be sent to the Senate during its pres­ ent seBtion to fill the vacancy on the Supreme bench causcd by the resignation of Judge Davis. Secretary Evarts has taken for a residence one of the three houses which formerly consti­ tuted the Old Capitol prison during the war. A telegram from Washington says : " The fa­ vorable condition of American securities abroad has more than once been the subject of congratulation. Calls for the redemption of bonds are likely to be continued, judging from the official reports to the treasury from the Syndicate in Europe." Washington dispatches inform us that se­ rious charges of frauds upon the treasury have been brought against certain officials in that department. Their plan of proceeding seems to have been this: The Treasury De­ partment would purchase a quantity of regis­ tered bonds on the market and place them in the Treasury Department. They then belonged to the Government Assistant Treasurer Charles F. Conant, Daniel Baker, and Mr. Bige- low, clerks, were cognizant of these transac­ tions, and formed a ring to profit by them. They took the number of the bonds and the names in which, they were registered, lushed these to a New York speculator named William Howe, who prepared bogus powers of attorney and collected the accrued interest from the department, after sharing it with Conant, Bigelow and Baker. An old man named Springer, the sixth insane person who has gone to Washington to be inaugurated President, has just been committed to the lunatic asylum. The Jbar of the Supreme Court of the United States adopted resolutions highly compliment­ ary to Judge David Davis, upon the occasion of his retirement from thfe bench. It seems to be pretty well settled that an extra session of Congress will be called about the middle of May or 1st of June. POLITICAL POINTS. Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, has re­ signed his seat on the United States Senate. A Washington correspondent says Vice Presi­ dent Wheeler has adopted the following policy with regard to official patronage: He will recommend no person to the President for ap­ pointment, nor will he ragn any papers, but if the President asks him his opinion upon any subject, it will be frankly and heartily given. Mr. Wheeler will studiously avoid any interfer­ ence with the Chief Executive. Frederick W. Seward, son of the late Secre­ tary Seward, has been appointed Assistant Sec­ retary of State. The President has appointed Hon. Lot M. Morrill Collector of the Port of Portland, Me. Asa O. Aldis, of Vermont; James B. Howell, of Iowa, and Orange Ferris, of New York, have been appointed Southern Claims Commission­ ers. The Republican members of the Pennsylva­ nia Legislature met in caucus on the 13th inst. and unanimously nominated J. Donald Cam­ eron, late Secretary of War, to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the res­ ignation of his father. It appears that Hon. Stanley Matthews ad­ dressed a letter to Gov. Packard, of Louisiana, similar to the one sent to Gov. Chamberlain, of South Carolina, urging him to abdicate his claim to the Governorship in favor of Nicholls. Packard has just replied to Matthews. In the course of his letter he says: " I received a majority of the legal votes cast at the last election, have been declared Governor by the Legislature in joint session with an undisputed quorum in both houses, and having been law­ fully vested with authority as Governor I can­ not with due regard to my oath of office and duty to the 76,000 voters who have elected me the Chief Magistracy, though I should receive consideration and position in some appropriate way, abandon those faithful men to the mer­ ciless vengeance of the White-League Democ­ racy." A large delegation of colored men, represent­ ing a number of States, called on the President the other day, and urged him to appoint Prof. John M. Langston, of Washington, Commis­ sioner of Agriculture. The President informed them that it w»i» Lis intention to appoint both Prof. Langston and Fred Douglass to important and responsible positions at an early day, hut he had not yet decided as to the place •Hn* would be given the former. Postmaster General Key, finding tnmself over­ whelmed nearly with applications f<»r office, has Canned the following circular to be prepared for transmission to every aoplic&nt as the only an­ swer that can possibly be given at present to any Of the constantly accumulating letters : POSTOFFICE DF.PAHTME**,1 WASHINGTON, --^ F SIB : Yonr letter of the has been received and placed on the tiles of the department for considera­ tion under the rules of the civil service when vacan­ cies occur. At present none exist. D. M. KF.Y, Postmaster Gfeneral. A delegation of Illinois Republicans called on the President the other day, to request the remov­ al of the Postmaster at Springfield, in-order to give place to Mr. Phillips, the defeated Repub­ lican candidate for Congress, and editor of < the Illinois State Journal. Tho President |sked if they had any charges to prefer against the present Postmaster. The reply was " No, but he is a sort of a half-way democrat, and Mr. Phillips, having been defeated for Congress, is entitled to consideration at the hands of the party." The President declined to take the ac­ tion requested, saying that he would not re­ move except for cause, whereupon the delega­ tion retired very much disgusted. Hon. Stanley Matthews was nominated for United States Senator, on the third ballot, by the Republican caucus of the Ohio Legislature. His competitors were Judge Taft, ex-Congress- man Shellabarger, Judge Lawrence and W. P. Howland, Gen. Garfield having withdrawn from the contest. A Washington telegram to the Chicago Trib­ une says : " The President's Southern policy, as nearly as it has been defined, seems to have been thus : The withdrawal of troops from the State capitals in Louisiana and South Corolina to their barracks, and for the present complete non-intervention and non-recognition of either of the organizations pretending to be the legal Governments." Complete returns of the New Hampshire election.show the election of the entire Repub­ lican Etfate ticket by majorities of about 3,000. In the First District Jones, Democrat, is elected to Congress by 45 votes. Briggs and Blair, Republicans, are returned from the Second and Third Districts. Gov. Warmoth, of Louisiana, has submitted to the President a plan for the adjustment of the political difficulties in that State. His proposition is for the Legislature to recanvass the votes as shown by the face of the returns, and declare the vote for Governor. This would give the Democrats the Governor and other State officers, and the Republicans the Legisla­ ture. XXBGELLANBOU8 GLEANINGS. The number of postal cards issued by the Government last year amounted to 150,815,000. Fires : Montreal, Canada, loss $50,000; New York city, $110,000; Woonsocket, R. I., $80,000; Baltimore, Md., $40,000. James Kingan, the crooked New York pro­ duce speculator, who recently fled from the city after swindling everybody with whom he had dealings, was found dead the other day, on the track of the Inter-Colunial railway, in New Brunswick. One theory is that he was mur­ dered for the money which he carried ; another, that he was laboring under mental aberration, and committed suicide. Eight thousand dol­ lars was found in the pistol-pocket of the dead man. A plan for the adjustment of the Southern State debts has been matured by the commit­ tee appointed for that purpose some time ago by the capitalists of New York. The plan recommended has reference to the Tennessee debt--the New York committee having had a conference with the committee appointed by the Tennessee Legislature--and contemplates the isaue -of new bonds at the rate* of 60 per cent, of the aggregate amount of the principal and unpaid interest up to July, 1877, the new bonds to be payable in thirty years, and bear interest at the rate of 6. per cent, payable semi-annually in New York--the interest coupons to be receivable for" all taxes due to the State of Tennessee. An express robbery was committed at Pittsburgh, Pa., the other evening, which for ingenuity and audacity has rarely been surpassed in the annals of criminal exploits. In this case the telegraph took the place of the revolver, and electricity served instead of bloodshed. The telegraph wire was tapped outside the city, and, by the aid of a pocket instrument, two bogus messages were sent, by which the express messenger turned over his car to the thief under what he had every reason to suppose were genuine in­ structions to that effect from the General Su­ perintendent at Pittsburgh. The clever raseals who managed the job realized about $4,000 for then- pains, and the Express Company are won­ dering what new and unsuspected plan of rob­ bery will next be attempted. A Washington dispatch says that many Amer­ icans have filed complaints against Bancroft Davis, our Minister to Berlin, for discourtesy and graver offenses. The steamship City of Brussels, which sailed from New York last week, took out $10,000,000 in i}4 per cent. United States bonds, with which to cancel a like amount of 5-20 bonds held in Europe, and about falling due. iU(? any luminous the Senate went into executive session, and soon after adjourned. , 'J SATURDAY, March 1,7.--After a long discus­ sion, by a vote of yeas 39, nays 8, the resolution was agreed to authorizing a sub-committee of three of the Committee on Privileges and Elec­ tions to visit Oregon during the recess, if they deem it expedient, and examine the charges against Senator fl rover, of that State It was agreed to print 10,000 extra copies of the Monetary Commission report The Committees on Printing and to audit and control the contin­ gent expenses of tho Senate were authorized to sit dnring the recess".... The thanks of the Senate were voted to Vice Presidt-ut Wheeler, who renponded briefly, at the close of which he declared the Senate ad­ journed without day.. .In executive session Frederick Douglass was confirmed as Marshal of the District of Columbia by a vote of 30 to 12....Before the final adjournment, Mr. Morton formally declined the Chairmanship ot xhe Committee on Foreign Re­ lations. and Mr. Hamlin was assigned to the posi­ tion. Mr. Ferry was made Chairman of the Postal Committee. CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. Extra Session of the Senate. TCEBDAY, March 13.--SENATE--Mr. Anthony submitted a resolution that the volume containing the proceedings of the Electoral Commission and of the two houses of Congress in regard to counting the electoral vote be prepared for publication under the direction of the Committee on Printing, and that 200 copies be furnished to the Jus­ tices of the Supreme Court who were mcmliern of the Electoral Commission. Referred Mr. Morton submitted an order that the telegraphic dispatcher referred to in the letter of William Orton, President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, read on Saturday last, lie deposited in the office of the Sec­ retary of the Senate, to be by him delivered to Mr. Orton upon his giving a receipt for the same. Laid over The Senate then went into executive session, and soon after adjourned. WEDNESDAY, March 14.--A committee, con­ sisting of Messrs. Anthony and Whyte, was ap­ pointed to wait upon the President and inform him Chat the Senate was ready to adjourn unless he had some further communications to make. The com­ mittee performed the duty assigned to it, and was informed by the President that he would desire to communicate with the Senate further be­ fore the final adjournment took place The telegraphic dispatches examined by the Committee on Privileges and Elections during the investigation as to the Oregon elector* wore ordered to be restored to the Western Union Telegraph Company A resolution was laid over, authorizing the sub-Com­ mittee of Privileges and Elections to sit during vacation and investigate the charges preferred against Senator Grover--The Senate then went into executive session. THITKHDAY, March 15.--Provision was made for printing the volume containing the proceedings of the Electoral Commission and the two houses of Congress relating thereto, and the matter of investigating the charges against Senator Gro­ ver was laid over till to-morrow, after which the Senate went into executive seaeion la txccutive session the Sonata "'onfirrr.ed George S. Boutwell, CoumnsKioner for the purpose, of pre­ paring and publinhing a new edition of the first volume of Revined Htutu tew ; Register* of Land Of­ fices, John 8. Owens, Taylor's Falls, Minn., and Charles B. Tyler, New Ulm ; Surveyor of Customs, Reuben H. Ktcphennon, Cincinnati. FRIDAY. March 16.--The Senate received a message from the President, saying he had no fur­ ther communication to make' at this session. Ao <'.oiupanying the message, were about 100 nomina­ tions, mostly for minor offices. Without transact THE tiRAXUER DECISION. The Rights of the States In. Chief Justice Walte's Decision--Its Probable Effect on Railway Investments. [From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.] Chief Justice Waite's decision in the case of the Illinois grain warehouses, which will be known henceforth as the Granger decision, is a very clear presenta­ tion of the rights of States in the regula­ tion of the charges for the use of prop­ erty devoted to public uses. The State Governments, he says, inherited the wide powers of the British Parliament. Certain of these powers, esfcressly named, they surrender to a common Government, the United States ; the rest they retain, and exercise under the lim­ itations of their self-imposed constitu­ tions. These retained powers authorize them, not to control rights which are purely and exclusively private, but to require every citizen to so conduct him­ self and so use his own property as not unnecessarily to injure another. This is of the very essence of government, and is buttressed by numerous decisions. Under these powers, the States have ex­ ercised the regulation of common car­ riers, inns and a variety of public inter­ ests, and Congress has done the same in the Federal district. As the Chief Jus­ tice lays down the principle: "When one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he in effect grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be con­ trolled lay the public for the common good to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use, but, so long as he maintains the use, he must submit to the control." This language is a complete answer to those who have claimed that the Grange policy was a policy of spoilation and robbery. It was a harsh policy, a fool­ ish policy in the extreme to which it was carried for a brief season, but it was undertaken on a just principle, the prin­ ciple that the great agricultural industry of the Western States had a paramount interest in the manner in which railroads and grain elevators were managed. The Chief Justice, in applying this principle to the grain warehouses, had a less obvious instance of the requisite degree of publicity to give it force than he would have had if the case had formally in­ cluded the railroads. But he had no difficulty in showing, from the manner of conducting the business, that all the grain traffic of the greatest grain market in the world passed through these warehouses, controlled by nine firms. In the lan­ guage of their own counsel, they were " the very gateway of commerce," tak­ ing toll of everything that passeo, levy ing, in the words of Lord Hale, " a common charge" and justly liable to a common regulation. It matters not that the warehouses ante-date the legislation, thfey could not ante-date the power to legislate. Again, the determination of what is a reasonable charge is by all pre­ cedents within the legislative preroga­ tive ; in private contracts it is a judicial function, but not so in these matters which the Legislature may regulate. The power to regulate may be abused, but " the people must resort for the remedy to the polls, not to the courts." Some of the papers, the New York Evening Post included, take up the old wail, the Wall street nonsense, that the decision renders railway capital "inse­ cure. " It was the waste, extravagance, and inflation of the railroad-building era which have ruined railroad enterprises and rendered the capital invested inse­ cure. If the Grange legislation had been enacted ten years earlier, and enforced, more moderate ideas of the opportunities and some conception of the duties of com­ mon carrying might have resulted. The idea of the railroads was that, no matter how many rings fattened off from con­ struction accounts, the communities using the roads would be bound to pay the in­ terest on their inflated cost forever. The people revolted, and we don't blame them. Nevertheless, the bankruptcy which has overtaken the railroads of the country since 1873 has been due far less to the Granger legislation than to the col­ lapse of the credit of new railroads from natural causes. The business of many of them liap proved so much below their expectations that it needed no "regula­ tion " toTnake it inadequate to pay the charges. Before 1873, the amount of railroad bonds on which interest had been defaulted had risen to $134,000,000, and during the past four years this has risen b $814,000,000, or 30 per cent, of the en- ire bonded debt of the railroads of the country. Payment has been resumed on some portion of this, and a much larger proportion has been satisfied by foreclo­ sure. But viewed in the broad and fu­ ture aspect, the greatly increased strict­ ness of railroad supervision, which is the fruit of the Grange era, will render rail­ way capital more secure instead of less so. It secures a degree of publicity of railroad affairs which was never before at­ tempted. The Mormons. The rumor that Brigham Young, Jr., is to plant a colony of 500 Mormons in the Mexican State of Sonora is not im­ probable. Last spring a reconnois- sance was made by the agents of the Mormon Prophet into Arizona with the avowed purpose of fixing some perma nent settlements there, and a number of families from Utah have since settled in that Territory. There is now a chain of Mormon villages extending from Bear river south westward to Arizona. It has long been foreseen by the leaders that the resources of Utah are insuffi­ cient to sustain so large a population as their hopes and ambition lead them to anticipate, even in the present genera­ tion. They must have more room. The bleak and barren region of the north of Salt Lake presents no inducements ; the south offers good elimnte, rich soil, and J an abundance of water and timber. *j Predictions of Locust Visitations.' The Territories, and recently-admitted' States which are more generally afflicted: by locusts than the older Western States,, were recently visited by Prof. Packard, who collected and derived from farmers; and others ar mass of new information concerning the ravages of these destruct­ ive insects. This, with new observa­ tions on the habits of locusts in En­ gland, will enable him to extend oar knowledge of the distribution of this de­ structive locust, and will in great part furnish data from which he oan begin the construction of a map indicating in colors its distribution and migrations. By conference with Prof. Abbe, of the Weather Signal Bureau, the facts ob­ served seem to point to an intimate eon* nection bet ween the prevailing winds at different seasons and at different alti­ tudes, which may offer an explanation of the astonishing extent of the migrations, of locusts eastward, and the return in swarms westward of the succeeding gen­ eration born in Kansas, Wisconsin, etc. It is the conclusion from study of the migrations of the locusts in the Rocky mountain region that their periodical visits probably coincide with unusual seasons, and that there are cycles of years recurring favorable or unfavorable to insect life; and it is believed that it will yet be possible to predict the ar­ rival of injurious insects, and so render it possible to provide against depreda­ tions by them. If we shall be able to< predict a visitation of locusts on such a year in Kansas or Nebraska, for instance, from meteorological phenomena occur­ ring in the Territories to the westward, then farmers can omit such crops as are most sought after by them, and increase those less liable to their ravages, and store them up for a year of famine, as did the ancient Egyptians. This may seem visionary to some, but it is asserted that it is no more so than the Weather Bureau system of predicting storms seemed to practical men live years ago. The losses in the United States from destructive imsects amount to from $100,000,000 to $500,000,000.-- Boston Globe. Laying for Him. It having eome to the ears of the- United States officials at this point that Big English, a boot-black, had a hand­ ful of lead nickels in his possession, the boy was yesterday interviewed on the subject. " Yes ; I've got nineteen bad nickels- in my trousers pocket," was his prompt reply. "And what are you doing with them?" " Holding right to 'em. You needn't think you've got a case again me, for you haven't." " How did you get those bad pieces ?" " llich man, who shall be nameless --black l is boots every morning--hands me out a lead nickel--thinks he's got soft thing on me, but I'm layin' for him !" "How?" " Why, he's got a daughter 'bout my age. I'll be thinking of marrying in two or three years more, and I'll shoulder a bag of his nickels, walk into the parlor, and gently say : ' Mister man, I love thy fair daughter, and I demand her hand in marriage. Behold the proofs of your vile perfidy, and come up to the rack or go to the jug!' You just keep still $ad let him shower out his bogus, coins. I ain't handsome, but I'm a ter­ ror to plan !"--Detroit Free Press. Municipal Finances of Now York. The debt of New York city is $160,- 060,000. The taxes are $33,000,000. The population is 1,200,000. The debt amounts to $133 per man, woman and child of population, and the taxation is $27.50 per head. In 1860, the debt of the United States was $05,000,000; or $95,000,000 less than the present debt of New York city. In 1860, the taxes of the United States were $53,000,000; of only $20,000,000 more than the present taxation of New York city.--Nciv York Daily Bulletin. A Bold Mariner. Mr. Secretary Thompson has never served two years before the mast, but it is affirmed that his nautical acquire­ ments are more varied than were those of President Taylor's Secretary of the Navy. When this official first boarded a man-of-war at the Gosport Navy-yard he paused before the hatchway, gave a startled glance downward, and ex­ claimed, "Great Caesar's Ghost! if the thing isn't hollow !" T H E M A R K E T S T NEW YORK. BEKVES 8 25 ^ Hoas 5 75 6 26 COTTON 11# FLOUR--Superfine Western 5 35 5 75 WHEAT--No. 2 Chicago 1 40 1 41 CORN--Western Mixed.. 54 55^ OATH--Western Mixed 38 45 RYK--Western 80 84 PORK--New Mess 14 50 14 75 LARn--Steam 9% 9^ CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choioe Graded Steers 5 40 0 5 60 Choice Natives 4 75 6 25 Cows and Heifer's 3 00 4 00 Oood Second-clans Steers.. 4 00 4 25 Medium to Fair 4 30 4 65 Hoes--Live 4 60 5 20 FLOUR--Fancy White Winter 7 00 8 00 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 6 00 6 25 WHEAT--No. 2 Spring ... 1 22 1 23W No. 3 Spring. 1 14 1 15 CORN--No. 2 39 40?4' OATS---No. 2 82 33 RYE--No. 2. 62 63 DARLEY--No. 2 62X 54 BUTTER--Creamery 31 33 EGOS--Fresh 12# 13 PORK--Meee 13 25 13 50 LARn 9V MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 1 1 39 ® 1 40 No. 2 1 30 1 31 CORN--No. 2 38 • 40 OATS--No. 2., 30 31 KYE 65 66 BARLEY--No. 2 68 70 ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red Fall 1 46 ® 1 47 CORN--Western Mixed 96 37^" OATS--No. 2 34 34J£ RYE 64 64)k PORK--Mesa 14 00 14 25 LARD 9 9JF HOGS ... 4 50 5 25 CATTLE... 3 50 6 00 CINCINNATL WHEAT 145 0 1 55 CORN 42 44 OATS 34 39 RYE 78 75 Pons--Mess 14 25 14 6d LARD 9 10VF TOLEDO. WHEAT--Extra 1 65 9 1 67 V£ Amber I 49 1 50' CORN 43 45 OATS--No. 2 34 37 DETROIT. FLOUR--Medium 6 50 @700 WHEAT--White. 150 1 58»4' OOKN --No. 2 45 46 OATS--Mixed -. 39 41 RYE 75 80 PORK--Mese 15 25 15 50 EAST LIBERTY, PA. HOG8--Yorkers 5 00 .S; 5 40 Philadelphia)- 60 "" .-,80 CATTIX-- Beet 5 7F> 6 15 Medium 4-50 5 00 SEEEP i 50 6 75