Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 16, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 March 1874 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER

C. DOAKE, Publisher. - . INDIANA. JASPEK. iti:.iik of iMiiitiM'. rrnounl mn Literary. bishop Simpson has arriel in Mexico in good health. Tin Rev. I )r. M'Coh is writing a itvrv o f Sevtttnh I'Kilosuylty, W hich will be plli.li-hcd ill tilt' Ulltlllllll. It will he toil great extent biographical, embracing tin live of a hundred or more eminent men of Scotland. Tin miii of .Sir I irly Xeave, of England, heir to estates in Kngland worth fltKJ.fXK) a year, whs murdered lately in tin Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado. Not long ago one of his brothers was killnl by a I mar, anolliiT hy it tlgr, and another fell in tin' I in liuii mutiny. That wonderful scholar. Mr. Souiervilli'. real (Jn-ek every morning before lrenkfat. After she lial passed her ninetieth year she dividc her time between the higher algebra, realing the poet unl the newspaper, receiving friends, ami working: with the nee lie without siectale. Mrs. Hryilgen, of Pennsylvania, dcscrtlxil as a young and graceful w ile of an m togftiariaii millionaire, it is claimed hva orrfsiHiinleiit, wears the mot magnificent niainond ever seen in Washington. At a recent riH-eptiou he wan literally ahluze with jewels comprising necklace, ear-rings tiara, bracelet, anil stomacher. Hon. John I. Dofrees, formerly iilitor of the Indian.ioli Journal Is engaged in 1rcparing the material for ' A Civil and 'iiiii4iJ J!i-wiy of Iiiii.tiiit, wtiliSk-i Ins of It Prominent Citizens, Irom the Formation of iu Territorial (Joverninent to the dose of the Year Wa1." This pcrid embraces nearly three-quarter of a intury. William Whiilright. late of New buryrt. Ma i to lie mi nilereil among the g-md Now Kngl imlcrs w ho in lifetime were thoughtful lor the good of thoe to me after tbem. Two-ninth of hi- estate he devised lr the .iirjov of founding a scientific ( olhge In New biirvptrt. It i tolerably certain that about jpiu.uoo will lie realized for that object, ami possibly more. In tli third volume of Former's Lift fjf Lhckrn, reeently published, the later years of the noted novelist's life are represented us ihiply tinged with morbi'l melancholy ami unn Ills work had tM-gun to tell upon him. ami writing, which in bis earlier days had fx -en almo-t spontaneous, Ug-an ti'iNan etlort. He sought in -ociety. and in the Im-tle and ehange of tmveling, relief for hist rcstles-tiess. This state of mind was known to I Mckens's intimate fi lends, hut in general society he was gay ami full of humor. The Lowell Courtrr says that the lion. Frederick .Smyth, lately governor of New 1 lamp-hire, was omv u redden t of I .owe II, He lieiran as rterat the Mcrriuiae House, then kept by Mr. M unlock, ant used to back IkmiI- at foiim nt kt pair. lie sultsqiiently was employed on the Middlesex Corporation at eight "dollars a month, and be tell w ith lnne.-t pride that the lir-t pair of pant lie ever owned which wen mf of tionie.-pun were earntd on tin Middlesex. Hew a- afterward promoted to yard band n the Treinont at ev-nty-live cent a day. H iving tlni- iu a few inoiiths accumulated a little money, he went to school, and in due time worked his way up by energy, industry, fruirility. ami "faculty " to the mayoralty of Manchester and to the guliortiatorial chair of hi native State. Hi lir-t visit to the Merriinac I loiie after he threw down bis blacking briih a jortcr wa in company with hi Executive Council us ( iownior of New Hampshire. Mrhuol autl burrh. The Old Catholic have now hX) pareliieal harge in (ci aiany, and (Kt.ooo cnr1lle, ineinlHTs. The l v. Yilli:un MctJuire. of Wadiingtou, has withdniwn from the I'rotc-t-ant Kpieoal t:iiuri h and joined the Hetormeil KpM-opalians. The On-gfui L'hurhmnn evmiplainsof the want of Kpicopal inini-ter to supply M-veral vaint parishes when1 gMh liurche an em leil and a sufticient mij- . jxirt guaranteed. The secret of I'outridliug a w hod may j ! gathered from the follow ing brief ex-1 tract: "Looking is not always .edug. T he leader f a schiwd thould lc fpiick to i dirder, w ho eaiies it, and ju-t how ! to tpiell it." j Tlx Compulsory IMiiealion Kill now j In fore the New Vork Legilatiue. pro-; vide that any child under dxN-cn yeir of age, found iii the streets of the city, may In- committed as a vagrant, unle iroo( Ih1 given that be attends some choof. Assistant I'.idiop i'heiiev, of the Heformetl Kpi-"t-pal Cbunh, fias Uvn I'ollowed into the new movement by his congregation in ChrUt Church, Chicago. The iiiemherM met reentl3 mid formally orjranizeil thenndvex into a Informed Kplseopul SiK-iety. The l!ev. MissTurnerlnwlMTonie pastorof the I'nitarian Church at Melbourne. Aitralia. She roiidin t the wrviiv without aio embarras-siiH'iit, and tier sermons are carefully freparMl essay, quietly delivered. The London Tim'1 correspondent who N-nd the item calls, this followin; an American prtHelenf. The first nnd only Iridi monastery of the l neilictine onler of the I'nited States is nlMuit t Im fsuftdidiel at Crofton, Iowa, 1(0 miles; til of the Missouri Hivcr, n the H. M. K. II. The nrior, Yery Krv. lohn A. hunisi, of St. Cloud, Minn., has pun hax-d 4i acres cf exirlh-nt land for ilio site of the monatery. Sir IlarUe Fn n. (iovernor ot Itombar, wIiom name has Imi ii ho frequently of Lite t ti the paHT. iwakingfrom exix rleneeii.nl obser ation, fays that "whatever mavl wiid to the (contrary, the teaching f (hristiaiiity mnong one hundred and rdxty millions .f dvili.el Industrious 1 1 in-' Ums and Mohaiumii'.au In India is eflceting ehangen, moral, social and political, which for extent and rapidity of effect are far more extraordinary than anything that we or nur forefathers have witnessed in modern Kurope."

ftrUnre muU liidulry. Mra. Carrie .lessiip, of New Haven, Cnnecticiit, has Invented a compartment pot. in w hh li corned imt f, Jreh codtish, potatM-s and plum pudding can ull In? Ixiiled ut the same time. Fall Kiver. Mass., has nearly twle; as many pii.dlc. us Low II, and i the greutetcoiUin inanuf utiiring city in the republic. It U- Justly called the Manchester of America. Its population and wealth are ini readng more rapidly than any town in New Kngland. The W halrmnn' Shi mting-Lint shows n steady decline in this industry. Of the eleven whalers now in New Itedford, that arrived in W:l, mx ure for sale, ami of the twenty-one now wintering there not over seven ure likely to Ik- titled out. Of forty w haters to arrive during the present year, probably about thirty will lie scut to sea, while the other's will be disused of. The cotton-mill hands ot Pennsylvania do not mi-iii to lie much hctterotr than those of New Kngland. Hefore the panic the mills were paving the women emdoyed by them live or six dollars a week, and this lias since Ixi n reduiiil fifteen jht lent. It is not stranjre that they have struck. Yet American women prefer this lifc-aml-dcath toil tofiuployutcutashousemaids iu resjM-ctable families. Some of the capitalist of Hoston are discussing a plan for philanthropicully combining in one institution the benefits of savings banks, mid life iusurunee. As yet they have gone no farther than hi talk generally of the crude idea, which is to enable men of moderate n-souni s to deiosit money for the insurum' of their lives, the deKsits to draw interest, and to lie subject to withdrawal at any time. The life policy would, of course, N (anceled upon the money b hig drawn out. It i rather singular that diamond, the most valuable of all mineral products, an- bought and sold hy a meaure based solely on usage. Carat weight is employed for the inirpose, but has never ln-en Iegalizil in Kngland or this country, neither is it governs! by any standard. It i, however, generally rccogniz-d that 1.J diamond e.irats are equal to a troy ounce. The fourth part of the diamond carat i called the carat grain, and is found to be a ticarlv as pnsdhlo djual to the average of a dry w heat grain taken from the middle o the ear, w Inch, again, is identical w ith tin-Alexandrian grain of the l'toleineys, four of which were equal to the Alexandrian carat. It is claimed that by means of a recently invented freezing machine, the temperature of any limited space can be kept dow n to almost any required degni1. The inventor prooses to njdy the method to the construction of cdtt diamlM-rs on lHard shijs, to used for storing, fr sh providons, or in the case of inerbant ships, for the conveyance of H-rish-able fn ight. 1 le does not, how ever, think it possible to freeze a w hole cargo of meat so a to resist putrefaction in a long voyage, a from Australia to Kngland. Among the various ue ot the new invention will lie to cool railwj.y carriageR, to provide cool vaes for the conveyance of im-nt and other provision in India, to cool the air admitted Into hospital wards, and to provide an unlimited supply of pure ice at almot nominal cost.

A loy named Crampton, living near Orion. 111., while carelessly hamliing a loaded revolver the other day. shot hi- sister, the ball piercing her skull. She died in a few hours. A boy n uned Larry, at a srhooliu hampaign. III., had one of hi eyes knocked out and the sight completely destroyed la.t week, by a toy dart throw n by one of hi companions. Mrs. Madden, of Cairo, 111., was dangeroiil v, and it is was thought fatally burned Icy the explosion of a lamp ami oilcan while tilling a limp with Aurora oil a few nights ago. Alittlegirl named Clara Fcrnnie.living near Montgomery, Mich., was left in the house alone by her mot her, while she w ent to a neighbor's. While gone the child lit a caudle and set her clothes on lire, and v so badly burned that she dieu in nine hours. A fatal accident nni-ntly ovurred at I Vila. Iowa. Ilcrliert Kenning, agtil about fifteen years, employe! in the wagon factory of Vdiubring V. Fosdic, in attempting to put a Niton a jnilley, became entangled in the In-lt, was drawn up and w hirled radidlv around the shaft a'ovc and Ix-alen to death instantly by striking against the joist of the upper floor. In Dubuque, Iowa. William Haley thought he wanted to die. and so bought a bottle of strychnine, lie took it home, and UMn getting there found he wanted to live. '1 here was a r taring tire in the kitt hen stove, and into it he threw the pison. I 'p blazed the stuff in an explosive way, burning his hair off, and injuring liini so badly that for three days he bung tH-twccu lite and death. A few evenings since, at Sterling, Whiteside comity, III., while .ferry Carr and Mr. I.ahey were engage I in a game of billiards, they" became in vol veil in a quarrel over some iMiint in the game, when Carr strmfk Laney overthe lo ad with the but end of his cue. knocking him insensible. La hey was at oio -e removed to his home, where he ha since died. A woman in Crawfordsville, Illinois, learned that her son had been guilty of theft. When the oflh-cr came to her house to arrest him she plead with them not to do no. asserting hi entire innocence. They, however, agreed to take the Ixty to a man w ho coiihl identify the culprit, and if lie was not the I my they would return him. The man at once decided that the prisoner w ii not the guilty party, ami the officer returned w ith him to iii home, but in the meantime his mother haddioil of excessive grief at her mui'h supposeil disgrace. A man named Hiram Smith.awel'.-tv do farmer living some miles north of Oshkosh. Wis., committed suicide a few days ago, by cutting his throat from car to car w ith a razor. I le invited his friends to a party, and. while all was pleasantry and amiiscmciit. he quietly took out his" razor and cut his throat, lie lived hut a short time. IK- had Imi n troubled a great deal w ith heart dica-o.and the physician giving him upas incurable, it somewhat demented him. lie was !" ears ohl, and leaves a wile and several grown-up children.

Albert (inch, a younj' man seventeen year old, shot uml killed imell at tirant, itooue county, hy., a few days ago. The cause of hi suicide is stated to be that a young lady, hi cousin, to bom he was greatly attached, was married that day, und young (ret-ii, not having an invitation to the wedding, left the church umu the close of the ee rcmony, and Uirrow ing a shot-gun, place I the muzle iu his mouth, touched the trigger with the rainrod and blew hi head to pieivs. Death was Instantaneous. It I very probable that Ids love for the young lady who was married was so great that the thought of it hoH-lesiiesH drove him to this rash act of unrequited affection. Foreign Sole. The KuijKTorof Autria has recently celebrated the silver wedding lictween himself and hi jM-ople, and the King of Holland is almut to follow his example. William HI. ascended the Dutch throne March 17, lSlII. His wife. Omen Sophie, i one of the most accomplished women iu lUurojie. A correspondent of the London 77w. who was favored with a glimpse of the bridal trousseau of the Oraml Duchess Marie, mentions, among other things, dozen ami dozens of pairs of dainty shoe, tray of MM ketdianlkcnhicfs, pile of wonderfully embroidered K ttieiat, scores of delicately tinted silk stockings an endless array of lace and riblxms, fifty morning drosses of silk, satin, and velvet, not to mention cloak, lnniiets, furs, and hundred of other elegant article of dress. Mr. Carlyle ha written a letter recently on the relations between labor and capital in Kngland. in which he say: "What a contra-t between now and, say, only one hundred years ago! At the hitter date, or still more conspicuously, for ages before it. all Kngland awoke to It work with an invocation to the Kternal Maker to bless them in their day' labor, and help them to do it well. Now all Kngland, shop-keeTs. workmen, all niMiiiier of coiniM ting latorcrs, awaken a if it wore w ith an unspoken but heart-felt prayer to Ih-elzchuh. 'Oh ! help us, thou great lord of slxsUy, adulteration, aixl iiialfesanec. to do our work with the maximum of slimnes, swiftness, profit, and mendacity, for the devil's sak amen.'" The Hop.. .lohn M. Fraud, late Minister to Un-oo'. writes to hi paiN-r. the Troy, N. Y.. Timr, almut the drinking habit of KiirojM'. He says that in France, Italy, Spain, Ocrniany, and Orecor, where the consumption of wine is verv great, there is far less ilninkentie-. than in (Jreat Itritaiu or the I'idtod State. His opinion i that the silt tituQon of mild wine fortho whiky so generally drank here would lie a reformatory agency in checking intvnierance. T he result of hi personal observation in Spain wa that wine shop met him at every turn, but he randy saw a drunken man. Outside of the Kuglish and American colonist he knew of very littl" drunkenness in Paris. Intiermany he witnessed a tremendous flow of lager. but believe the proportion of continued inebriates there does not equal one to twenty ot the same class here. In Kussja n liquor stronger than our worst whisky i usi-d with bad result, and in (treat hritain the evil soinew hat approaches its extent in the I'nited State, (ilasgow was the mo-t drunken city he saw abroad. Odd nntl find. A certain old lady, who had been famed for sour look and not verv sw ti t words, touching the various aivi'h nt ot life, wa observed to have suddenly loeonie very amiable, " What happy change ha come over you?" said a licighlmr. Why," said the tnuisforiiHil. to tell you the truth. I have Imi-u all mv life striving fur a contented mind, and I, have finally made up mv inind to sit down contented w ithout it."" A certain college professor asked a new student to give hi name, but wa astounded when the young man ill resonse gravely remarked, " You area hriik." Wha't do you mean, sir." he inquinil, and again theohnoxiouanwer wa given. At tin the professor grew angry, lclaring that he would not he inultcd. w hen the innocent -ause of hi wrath disclaimed any intention of Insulting him. and explained by saying, " Mv name is U. II. A. Hrick I'riah, llcynold", Anderson ." Ah, indeed !" wa the professor' ejaculation, a he settled kick, and added, " You w ill commence yur lesson Mr. a a llrick!" Mr. Kaflerty, of Darhv, has less faith in the " Patent "Combination Ix k " than he formerly had. lie bought one a few week ago and pi. uit I it upon the front door of hi store, lie chuckled as he went to Nil that night to think how he checkmated the fraternity of burglars. Hut in the morning he forgot the combination hy which the key was to lo fixed, and when he tried to open the lock he couldn't. He worked at it all that day, and during the entire week he had locksmith down from the city endeavoring to pick the lock, and meanwhile hi business wa entin lysusM iidetl, and hi customers all went to the rival store over the way. Final! r lie got a fence rail. and. leveling it like a Wtcringrain, he broke the dmr to splinters. When be got in he found that burglar had had one of the liack window oj'ii for four night, and had nearly cleaned the place out w hile he wa agonizing over that lock. Then1 have Ihi-ii madder men iu Darby than l.'afferty, but very few who have felt so mad all over, from toe-nail to hair, n llatli rty does now. Max A lfUr.

Ilrilliant Sneer.. It i permitted to few men or companies to achieve acknowledged superiority in any important position or business. The present generation ha witnessed stupendous rivalry in several branches of Industry, and notably the S-w lug Machine business. Amid a multitude of comctitor. steadily and surdy the Wheeler & Wil son Company held their way from the leginning iion fixed and honorable princi ples. Long since, their leading )osiiion iu America wa established. Abroad, at Ixuidon, in ls12, they won the highest prem iums; at l'aris, in 11:7, t,,.y distan-d ighty-two competitor, and were awarded the highest premium, the only (odd Medal on Sewing Machines exhibited ; and lastly, amid unparallchHl competition, followed the splendid triumphs at Vienna, noted in our advertising column.

The Huston ( ollfctorshlp. (f rom TUe Nmiuo, fib. 2C.) We must confess that we do not quite understand the burst ot surprise, indignation, and dismay w hich ha greeted the iijh poiutiiient o! MllHllo us Collector of Costmi. There s, to lie sure, very little to be said In favor of his kt lection. He is a Joung man of alut the age of thirty-five, w hose circumstances rendered it impossible for Iii 111 to unitiiiue his eduiiition Iks. yond the age of tw elve (though it Is stabil hy his friends that he afterwards read law lietween the hours of 4 ami H a. 111.). and to whom a naturally energetic disposition e.irly pointed out the field of predatory politics as one in w hich hewics ino-t likely to shine. He has since sK iit some of his time a a revenue ileteetive, some of it as a Siiorvisor of Internal Revenue, the duties of the post being chiefly to arrange wardimi tings; and as he is quite illiterate, and in apM-arance a good sxi-imru of the street rowdy, .Mr. Siuunons is not exactly the le rson we should ourselveK selu t to succeed Mr. Kusm II as Collector of Customs in one of the t hief port of the I'nited States. Still, w e do not know that there is much more reason to consider him lit for the )ot of SuH-rvi.or of Internal than Collector of External l.Yvcnue. Indeed, acccrding to the Huston Adrtrtier, Mr. SiiniHons was, as Sujtervisor, "sogro-sly negligent or inconis tent that John D. Sanlmrn, following around in bis tracks, almost without etlort discovered several luindml thousand dollars' worth of taxe due the I'nited State that had ccaed notice," these large amounts being "chiefly such as the most ordinary c tlicicney miglit have ssi-ured namely, legacy nnd succession taxes.aud taxe on railroad dividend;"

and the Adrr.rtxMr say that a it was the duty of .Mr. Simmons to collect these taxes, and a the (iovenunent employed Sanborn on a contract giving him half he proceeds. the l niteu state lost a hundred thousand dollar hv the manner iu w hich Mr. Mintnons performed the dutio of his otlice. The appointment, howfver, was one of akinu winch was on the butler cant six months ago quite a plainly a it is now that it ha been played. Hutlcr has U-en endeavoring for some ten years, not, as some teoplc seem to Imagine, to persuade the ieople of Massachusetts that he is a noble and virtuous citizen, deserving their suflragesfor high orlice. but to get control of the political machinery of the State through the hn-al machinery of the l'nitcd States; and he has not worked in a very underhand manner either. It w a announced at alMUit the time of his di fmt three yean ago that the next movements to take plan in Va-!i-ington and Massachusetts politics were the resignation of Houtwell as Secretary of ta Treasury, and the installation in his place of butler friend l"i hard-on; the election of Koiitwcll to the Senate a the Kutler candidate, and the reapearance of Ihitb r himself a a candidate tor the nomination of the Massachusetts Republican Convention. These things all happened. Houtwell did resign, Richardson did aclept, and Houtwell wa elected to the S-nate, notwithstanding the opposition of Mr Da we. l'utler rcapjH'an-d as candidate for (iovcrnor, and having been narrowly defeated, lie naturally enough began again. One of the things made evident by the contest was that Simmons was Ii 11 tier's right-hand man ; indeed, this was made so evident that the Republican Convention pascd a resolution directed at him. and virtually calling iiioii the President to removebiin from otlliv. Obviously, under these circumstances the thing for Kutler to do was to place Siuimou in some ssi ure M)sition of honor and prolit. from which, with the l'nitcd States authority 1 hind him, it w ould I- difficult to oust him, and when.' he would have great Mlitical jmwer. The position of Collector wa clearly the position. It wa still le a secret that the politics of Mr. Thomas Hucll were of that uncertain striN which would naturally lead him to adopt any arrangement which might Mi ni to Is- lor the Is-st Interests of the party of Human Right.; it was his influemr of which Imth the Hutler and the anti-llutlcr party had Iw-en r"" t a 1 raid througktlhe campaign; and it bad Nen for a long time well understood among the ftolitidan that Butler and Kusscll were not irreconcilable foes. That Hutler should go quietly tow oik and elect hi load legislature' and make his arrangements with Mr. Russell and bis friends at Washington (who.it must tie rcniemticrcd, are no others than the President of the 1'nited States and the Ncrctary of the Treasury of the Uniteil Stites, to my nothing of Mr. Houtwell, ex-.Scntcry of the Tnusiiry and active Ssnator from Masachiis4tts. and almut ludf of the Massachusetts delegation), wa not unnatural either. The curtain ries n the vacant eollectorship and the apmiutmcnt of Mr. Simmons. There is nothing so very strange or unnatural in this. It U said Ut I! an insult to the jieople of Massachusetts, hut why should the leot'le of Massachusetts not lie iiisultnl? When "Tom" Murphy was apM)intsl sonic vcar ago Collet-tor of the Mrt of New York, that w as generally ronsidenil an insult to New. York : and if Murphy wa good enough here, we cannot see why Simmon i not good enough then'. " Insulting the jNiqde" is in fact the way in which the machinery of the (iovenunent i carried on by Conkling in New York, by Caey in New Orleans by Hutler in Massachusetts If the inhalsitant of Massachusetts bad just awoke from a slti p of half a ivmury. or w ere all newly arrived from some foreign country, they might indml lie surprii at a gH many thing they hear and r; but why should it surpriv or dismay anvoneot the in-eist day to si-e the in and out of the little game we all know so well? The population of Massachusetts is not, as the good mople of that State Mi-m to supjiosc, the quiet, orderly, religious, homogeneous agricultural community, comiioscd of churt li-nieinlers and governed I'V denmna and descendants of the first settlers that it wa a hundred years ago. but a thriving, energetic. topulous mod ern manufacturing State w ith highly di versified industries, large and continually grow ing cities ; each man lieiit on making money, and rt lvinz for jrood government much more on the traditions of the State than on his own exertions; the gull U-twn-n the very rich and the verv ixtor con tinually widening, and. In all tW thriving cities, a large and continuallv Increasing ntuntter of operatives and other port ot lalmror who look with jealousy on the people of wealth and position who used to administer the affair of the State, and who wish to lie led hy some plain, straight forward, blunt man who "has 110 non

sciic almut him" who will give them what they want money without work, prolit without capital, god republican government w ithout their taking too mm h trouble theiiisclvf to be good republican. The general apathy of the people of Massachusetts while Huth rls w 01 king and making the strategic arrangement w hich are the ncii-sjsarv preliminary to the decisive battles of Ids campaign, compared with the dismay which they exhibit when he actually make hi eouyi, is something curious. They certainly cannot exisi t him to remain Idle, and. a the Republican organization in such States a Massachusetts is that which w ie and prudent m diticians make use of to furt tier their design, of that he naturally makes ue. It Is hardly probable indeed that he will ever organize a Corruption!! party hy that name, holding inn tings to which none hut coriupt men are admitted, issuing platform pronouncing iu favor of roblry, fraud and einlM-zzhnient, and electing representative who pledge themselves iu writing to advocate none but schemes of sKiliatiou, ami recommending appoint! on the ground of their service in the way of tin ft and imposition and thcirconspicuoiissaciith-eol public duty to their private interests. The eople of Massachusetts seem always to to be waiting for the organization of some such I tarty a tlds, and nothing weiii to surprise these good, honest, confiding jHttjtle more than to discover, a they do now every few months, that the thieve and despoilers make use of the very organization to w hich thev themselves belong. T"he part played by the President in the. appointment of Simmons seem to have excited a much hostility and display of astonishment as that of Hutler himself. Hut we may observe that this I not the first apjmintmeiit of this kind he ha made. After sending Si kle to S(tain, and reaism tinting Casey in New Orleans, and wiUilirMwinr llie name of Im-hcio. t, and letting Mr. Curtis lie driven out of the Civil-Serv-icc Commission, there seems to be 110 particular reason why Simmon should not be put over the Hoston merchants the "brood of importers" a JaynecidN them. Indeed, the President' amusing oiler to nominate some one else if the Ma-sat hus.-ett delegation can agn-e on any other nominee, he knowing very weir they cannot, and if they could the principle of dvil-service reform " demand iuicrativcly that their w islies should lie no mote regarded than those of any other well-meaning citizens this oiler seems here iu New Vork, w here we understand the system of administration at Wasijjjifjton pretty well, to e a very natural and obvious way of arranging tiling. The attempt to organize an honest man' party was made iu carnet some three vears ago, and. had the plan of those who had the matter r-allv at heart been carried out, we should now liave either a President of undoubted character and intelligence, and got rid of the Ituth ritc at one blow, or, the attempt failing, the nucleus of a reform party would have been left with which to begin another campaign. There were plenty of Simmons- to lie wen in various oilier of trut and profit, all over the I'riited State, even in 17J; and (Irant hid the same sort of l Iief in reform that be ha now. If it was only luirssary then to have confidence in (irant, and a few well-known principle which were settled and enacted into law some ten year since, it is equally unnecessary now to take any active steps. If, on n contrary, it u mti-ssary to lie very active now, ami make a stand in such ca- as Unit of Simmon, those icople seem to In- iu the right who have always maintained that the creation of an active and earnest and persistent ojsimsition is the crying mi-d ot the country.

What Carpet-Hag Rule Cost. The Charleston AVw nnd Courxer publishes a brief table which show very effectively one of the result of carpet-ltag and nerro rule in .South Carolina, namely, the increased expense of the State Ooveii.ment since it has been in the hands of the (irantitc. lien are the ti gun from the ofiidal record of the co.-"t of the Slate Government in In') and in 173 rcspectlvelv : ls.. 1ST3. Sntn tTM-l.M tHo.7!C. PuWir printing i7.4M.t. i ,'. '. M liislatl-es-nsji :.l.:tr7.o 47 Soh.l .,.: 4.S .VI,H137 f'ulilic anylunin i',C i l,4-1i II oiilinft-nl lun.l ,fi'i."M 75.1X1.:. sumlrie. s,4U.!il 2x,is sA ."i,ili.li4 I,7I7..1I Mu.ltts W iH-flclencies. lotal 9i ,24s.i. $2.S'?.M 0 Ami tlii vast increase in the public ex-1ns-s ha Un made in States where owng to misgoveniment and xccssive taxation projx rtv has depni iatnl eimnnously in value, ami In which a public debt of million and million of dollar ha lieen fraudulently contracted by ignorant and venal legislator, black and white, who wild tlicir vote to the highest bidder for the promotion of all ort of raalitics. It wa to keep those thieve in ollice and thereby seen re the eh-ctond vote of the State lor Grant that several counties previous to the hist Presidential election, during a criod of complete quiet, wore jut under material law and harried by United States troop. Luxuries of the Lapp. brandy and toka-co are the luxuries of the Ijipp. The totmivo pijie is never laid aside, except during meal ; it i even uil by the women, w ho also swallow spirit. as gn-edilv a the men : in fact, Imth sexes will almost part with life itself for the gratification of dram drinking. If .you walk up to a Lapp, uncouthly squatted ltofore hi tent, hi very first salutation i made by stn tolling forth a taw ny band and demanding, in a w hining tone. "Tabak." or Hriendi." Dr. Clarke relate an amulng instance of their proionsity forspirituoiis liquor. On his very first visit to one of their tents, he gave the lather of the family atmut a pint of brandy, thinking he would husltand it with gnat care, as he had win him placv it Is hind him upon hi bod. ar the skirting of hi hut. H"' daughter now filtered, mid lieggod for a ta-Mof the bnmdv. a she had lost her shaiv bv ing ab. nt. The old 111:111 ma le no answer, but when the roqiio-t was re located he shlv crept round the outside of the tent until be came to the sjx.t where the bnmdv wa. w hen.thrusting hi arm tM-iieath the "skirting, he dn-w it out. and swallowed the whole contents of the bottle at a draught.