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WEEKLY EXPRESS.

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"Wednesday Morning, Nov 22, 1871.

BURGLARS trouble Kvansville.

ALTHOUGH MURPHY is out, HORACE is still unhappy.

ADDITIONAL Courts Martial liave betn established for the trial of Communists.

CAN the'"Journal" explain why none hut Democratic communities re ort to mob law'

CIIESTKK A. A IITIIUR HAS been appointed Collector of New \mk, cc Mt'ItPilY reigned.

"TIIEKI is a non explosive burning ll'ji'.l," much u.-ed in Kvansville—with frequent fatal re.-ult.-i.

I) v.s's diibiuu.i "di.-cipline principle', makes -low progress, notwithstanding its double leaded character.

T^T.KKN VICTORIA'S physician gives the lie direct to all reports attributing mental weakness to Her Majesty,

...

THK "Journal's" blustering attack on M'IKTON is not unlike the yelping of a "tarrier dorg" at an elephant.

DN DYNES, formerly of Indianapolis, was killed recently by jumping from a. moving train of cars near Seluta.

Bv A SILENCE which is more expressive than words, the "Journal" admits that DASIHI. is lishing for the Bourbon Presidential nomination-

THK "Journal" has glory enough for one week! 11demolished GRANT on Monday and annihilated MORTON on Tuesday! "In.-atialc monster, would not one suffice?"

A WASHINGTON DISPATCH brings the exciting news that the Athletics have been declared the champion base ball club.

ALEX STEPHENS, the late champion paragrapliist, must throw up the belt on receipt of Monday's Terre Haute "Journal."

THE Human Catholics of England have sent a mission, consisting of four priests, to labor among the freedmen of the United States.

UKV. GREEN CLAY SMITH, ot Kentucky, ex-General and ex Governor, is conducting a protracted meeting in the Baptist church at Danville.

THE engagement of "MACK" on the editorial

I'tafl

of the St. Louis "Demo

crat" is a fortunate event in the history of that excellent journal.

"lvr 'ru, BRUTE!" was the agonizing cry of HENDRICKS when he saw that fearful double-leader, commanding him to recant on pain of excomunication.

A HILL for the repeal of the act entitling women to vote, has been introduced into the Wyoming Legislature. Its defeat may be confidently expected.

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PRESIDENT GRANT will feel "so sorry" when he hears of the two and a-half column indictment preferred against him in Monday's "Journal!" 'Tis melancholy

AN exchange learns that, at Ottumwa, Iowa, at the late election, a Democrat voted a last year's printed ticket, saying he "didn't want any new departure in hia'n."

JuDfiE MORRIS S. JOHNSON, who died

at his home in Kvansville on Sunday morning, had many friends in this part of the State. He was one of Evansville's most esteemed citizens.

'THOSE who have time and patience to make a careful analysis of the vote cast in the State of New York for members of the Legislature, will perceive that its n.ost important lesson is: Nominate good men-

THE "Journal," by authority, puts in a square denial of the most serious charges preferred against VOORHEES by the Indianapolis "Journal." suspect the case will not rest here.

TWENTY THREE of the most prosperotisand wealthy butchers of Washington City havo been arrested by the Sanitary Inspector, for blowing meat and exposing the same for sale.

THE Indianapolis "Xcw»" learns that Franklin College will not close, notwithstanding such reports, but hopes to emerge from its temporary financial embarrassments, and become a shining educational

'•n'1'THE new Minnesota Legislature will stand 101 Republicans to forty-six Democrats on joint ballot.

of that

the last session

body the Republicans had a ma

jority of only twenty-one on the total

vote.

THE local Bourbon organ seems to have abandoned the hope of having the Democratic State Convention meet on the eighth of January. Does this "caving in" illus trate the practical effect of "the discipline of principle?"

Tilt" indignant pressure of outraged public opinion has forced CONNOLLY to resign. GREEN has been appointed in his stead. Mayor HAI.I. is still trying to redeem his character by an alliance with the Reformers.

THE Democratic "Press" has been abusing GRANT, and doing little else, for half a decade or more. The result is, GRANT is stronger in the confidence of the American people to day than ever before. "Blow away, ye gentle bree7.es

COMPLAINT is made at Indianapolis, that the pork packers of Cincinnati authorize their papers to quote stock at about twenty cents on the bundled pounds more than they aie paying, the object being to draw to Cincinnati trade that iegitimatelo belongs elsewhere.

JUDGE RICHARDSON, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, now in London with a corps of ten or twelve 1 reautv clerks, will close his business in connexion with the Syndicate, and return to his duties in "Washington early in January.

D. W. VOORHEES, of Indiana, for President, and Alex. H. Stevens, for Vice President, is the last Democratic ticket. —fa-change.

IftrieJ.it will prove "the la-t Demo cratic. ticket," beyond a doubt.

THE Republicans of the Fourth Ward, I.afavette, won a handsome victory in their special election for Councilman, last Saturdav. This, and a still moie significant triumph in Kvansville, on ihe same dav. are cheering indications of what m.-iv be expccted in the great campaign which will soon open in this State.

THE Hon. W. Q. GRESHAM, Judge of the United States Court for this district, has been ordered by his phvMiians (o take a trip to Florida for his health, During bis absence Judge TREAT, of Illinois, will occupy the bench of this District Court, and Judge DRUMMOND the I Circuit Court. At the court in New* Albany and Kvansville Judge IAI.I.AKD will occupy the bench.

THE aggravated unpleasantness be tween leading Democratic organs in the State is profoundly painful to witness. They hurl hideous epithets at each oth er's heads with utter reckles-ness of consequences. ... jEg"

THOSE who know Mr. FISHBICK, editor of the Indianapolis '"Journal," 6nd the Terre Ilaute "Journal's" allusions to "his masters" rather amusing. Anyone who should attempt to "master" him would find the job quite impracticable.

IF ANYTHING could make an American ashamed of his countrymen, it is the mis erable snobbery and tlunkeyism shown by so large a proportion of our people to•wards Kuropean princes whenever fate or fortune sends one of them to our shores

THERE are now 117 vacancies in the position of cadet midshipmen a the N.iv il A cad y. Kidia wjc.

And if the proper authorities continue to expel young rascals from the Academy, there will soon be 117 moie vacancies

THE estimates for appropriations le quired for the Interior Department for the li.-cal year ending June 30, lS7o, have been fini.-hed. They call for forty-three million dollars, of which thirty three million dollars is required by the Pension Bureau.

THE Indianapolis "Sentinel" and New Albany "Ledger" have gotten by the ears. It's awful, the way they talk aliout one another —btfayftU Journal

And some of the Democratic family secrets that they let out are '•mighty interesting reading."

IK it is necessary to make a new nomination for Auditor we would Miggest the name of Win. Steele, ot Waba.h. Erckawjc. *Inthe present healthy condition o( the public mind the rume, STEELE, would be fatal to his political aspirations were he to secure the nomination.

THERE is, if we remember corecily, a statute in this State providing for the inspection of coal oil, and other illumina ting fluids. The frequent occurrence of horrible accidents from coal oil explosions should admonish the authorities of the necessity of enforcing so useful a law

LET IT be tinally recorded, as an admitted fact, that the "Journal" and Mr, VOOHHEES peremptorily declined to favor the nomination of HENDRICKS for the Presidency, unless he repudiates the new departure "heresy"—or, in other word*, "throws up" "ihe Dayton Doctor's nauseating dose."

WE are likely to have as many as pi rants in the hour of defeat, as we would have had if the Democracy had been victorious in the fall elections. Thereseems to be a general desire to buck against Mr Grant.—Journal.

Yes, there area number uf foolish little bulls who have never heard the tragic story of their plucky brother that "bucked against" a locomotive!

THE Terre Haute "Journal" and Mr. VOORHEES make a huge blunder in supposing that Senator MORTON has or desires to have any control over the Indianapolis "Journal's editorial columns. Those who know the Senator's views will see the reverse of them in many issues of that paper. Mr. FISHHACK has the correct habit of expressing his own opinions.

Bur FEW of the leading journals which have come to hand since the Clark county mob broke into a jail and murdered three men, have contained a word in condemnation of that high-handed outrage. This fact is almost as deplorable and disgrace ful as the mob itself. Many of these

prominent journals are so occupied with the personal quarrels of their editors that they haven't room for much else.

SAYS the St. Louis "Democrat:" "DAN VOORHEES is apt to prove a lively thorn in the side of the lliumb-suckers. His word is law on the Wabash, and he has a district that will turn out more votes to the man than any other in the United Staies. All negotiations for that vote must be made through him, and his point blank refusal to 'posuitnize is a bad omen for the Democracy. We admire his pluck, and say to him in the. laconic language of SUMNER to STANTON—'Stick."'

THE Cincinnati "Gazette's" WashingIon special learns that at the last Cabinet meeting Attorney-General AKERMAN reported that he had two thousand prisoners in South Carolina alone, captured under the KuKltix act. A debate followed as to the ability of the courts and of the general government to take care of so large a proportion of the population, and a general disposition was manifested to have the arrests somewhat restricted, and, if possible, confined to those ascertained to be active in the Kulvlux order.

IT IS high time for measures to be taken to put an effectual check upon mob violence in Indiana. The good name of the State, the safety of her people, and other public interests loudly and imperatively demand that such tragedies as that which has just occurred in Clark county shall not again occur in this Commonwealth. The leaders of that mob of murderers must be detected and brought to punishment. If the local authorities cannot or will not do their duty in the premises, other means must bs employed to reach the guilty parties. This mob spirit litis been trifled with quite too long. A dozen or so of the most prominent par ticipants in the Clark county affair serving out life sentences in the penitentiary would have a mast salutary effect.

THE St. Louis "Democrat" proposes a magnificent scheme to break the power of the present railioad combinations between the Kast and West. The pioject is to build a narrow gauge, double track railroad from St. Louis to New York, with branches leading to all the principal cities on the Atlantic seaboard. The "Democrat" thinks the enterprise could be carried through for $11),000,000, and a large portion of this could be raised by subscription along the line of the road. The Kvansville "Journal'

thinks "a road built

and operated so much morecheaplv than the existing lines, would reduce freights and make warm work for the monopolists, unless, indeed, TOM SCOTT should get control of the road when completed." Our opinion is that through freight? are, as a general rule, quite cheap enough already, —often below actual o*st of transportation. There are well grounded com plaints of excessive rates on local freights on many roads.

AN intelligent Washington correspondent expresses the opinion that when the Republican Senatorial caucus meets for the purpose of appoinring a committee to revise the standing commit lee* of the Senate for the session, it is probable that an attempt will be made to restore SenaSI'SINKK to his old position at the head of the Committee on Foreign Relations. The subject has been very generally dis-cus-ed among Senators who have been in Washington arranging for their quarters. It is believed that many of tbo-e who vere active in iecuring his removal last winter are now ready to withdraw their opposition. From Mr. Su.MNER himself nothing has b«-en heard relative to the matter, nar from tli'ise authorized to speak for him, but the woik of the Committee on Foreign Relations is so thoroughly congenial to his taste, that it is thought he would serve should the Senate request him to do so.

MR. BAYARD TAYLOR has published a letter, vindicating, from the suspicions cast upon it, the character ot Major A. CALHOUN, United States Pension Agent at Philadelphia. Mr. TAYLOR alleges that he is fully conversant with the facts of the case, and that Major CALHOUN is not a defaulter, but rather a creditor of the United States, he having advanced from his own private aieans eight thousand dollars to pay pensioners, which sum he is again paying over to the government, thereby making it his debtor in a like amount. Mr. TAYLOR'S version of the affair is supported by the official advices from Washington, which say that Major CALHOUN waj not removed, but resigned. The original dispatches on the subject, however, indicate tint Major CALHOUN was forced out of office for no other pos.-ible reason than that his position was wanted for some one else by Senator CAMERON. The Philadelphia "Inquirer" concludes that, as the record now stands, Major CALHOUN seems to be in the place of one sinned against and not of one sinning.

THE "Journal" overestimates public curio-dry when it supposes that the public cares fo know all about the personal financial affairs of Mr. VOORHEES, "or any other man" Nobody grudges DANIEL any of his worldly goods, and he might have a much larger tax list wiihout exciting the envy of any citizen of Terie Haute. Poverty is Dot a crime, however inconvenient it may be nor is wealth, in itself, an honor. Sensible people judge of a man's moral and intellectual worth without regard to his estate, personal or real.

WE have long known that Gov. Morton inspired lhe assaults upon Mr. Voorhees, and in due lime he will reap his reward. He will learn the weight of blows received by himself as well as those given by others. We will take the master and not his man by the throat.— Journal.

Now, Mr. Journal, don't do it.— 'Twould be rude. Besides we happen to know that "these assaults upon Mr. VOORHEES" were not in-'piied by Gov. MORTON, and we hasten to give you the information, hoping it may save you (he humiliation of being carried home on a shutter.

THE attention of Mr. VOORHEES and his home organ is invited to the declaration of the New York "World" that GRANT'S renomination is inevitable that in New York, where there isjthe strongest Republican opposition fo it, TOM MURPHY has beaten it that the only chance for the Democracy is to beat GRANT in the election, which they must do by no more driving of Republicans back, as in 'G8 by "no more greenback heresies NO MORE DENUNCIATION OF NEGRO SUFFRAGE no more attempts to roll back the earth on its axis, and put everything where it stood in the administration of President BUCHANAN no more selection of candidates foredoomed to defeat from the moment of their nomination no more placing a bull on the track to butt the coming locomotive." These utterances of the leading Democratic organ of the country don't sound much like that double-leaded Bourbon screech.

AN OLD TRAVELLER, who details his many experiences in Ihe New York "Mail," says that although much has been said of the impudence and independence of waiters at hotels, leaving out certain watering places, where a common conspiracy seems to exist to extort money on every possible plea, he finds these sweeping charges unjust. He further says that he has found waiters uniformly polite and respectful, although he has wondered at their being so under the supercilious treatment of parties who seemed to think that they might be annoyed and insulted with impu'hity. The Boston 'Times" tells of a veteran hotel keeper in Boston, long retired, who used to say that he never knew one who was reared as a gentleman in the least unkind or impolite with a waiter and whenever a guest was so, he would say—"Ah dat fellow be vas brought up in a pig-stye." A respectful bearing towards what are called social inferiors is one of the tests of a true gentleman or lady, and one which not every well-dressed person will satis factorilv stand-

MR. GLADSTONE, the English Prime Minister, gave the people good advice in a recent address, when he told the workingmen that much depended upon the individual character and conscience in the solution of social problems of reform. The checking of the ravages of strong drinks, the removal of the social inequalities under which self-dependent women labored, the discouragement of luxury and selfishness—these, and many other things, would have to lie attended to ere labor would receive its due credit, anil men themselves, and the country, be made to believe that labor was honorable and idleness contemptible. Within and beneath the political interests that lie upon the surface lie these deeper and more searching questions that enter the breast and strike home to the conscience and the mind of every man and upon the solution of these questions the wellbeing of the country depended. On the individual man, the individual conscience, the individual character, human happiness or human misery relied, and that government could only labor in vain which would legislate for a people with an unvirtuous reputation.

WE are happy to know and to say that our political position touches a "sympathetic chord" in the hearts of nine-tenths of the Democratic people in this part of the State! That indisputable fact is sufficient satisfaction to us. So far as the sympathy of shuffling and greedy politicians is concerned, we are entirely indifferent.—Journal.

Suppose that be true, what good will it do the Democratic party? Suppose you and DANIEL and vour followers "in this part of the Slate" keep your grip on Bourbonism, stick to "the old issues," and swear by the "ancient faith," while State after State departs, and even your old political associates all over this State take up the forward march, does not every day add breadth to the gulf which now widely vawns between your faction and the grea^ mass of your party? Is it "sufficient satisfaction" to you to know that your little craft is left behind, befogged with asmall Bourbon squadron, while the Democratic armada is sailing farther and farther away from yuti? What can your petty faction "in this part of the State" hope to accomplish beyond a struggle for a few local loaves and Wabash fishes?

THERE is a numerous class of writers and speakers whose productions show such contempt for truth, such utter disregard of the common decencies of life, that they are sure to damn the cause they trv to help. Their readers despite them, because they know them to be both false and malicious. Such a writer fulminates a stump speech editorial in yesterday's "Journal," of which this eloquent extract is the peroration:

If any former President in all American history had made a record so abominable and so full of intrinsic evil so humiliating to our national character, and so full of loathsome and contagious example as the one who now so deeply disgraces the position he holds, he would have been pelted as he walked the streets insulted on his travels shunned and pointed at in places of public amusement prayed for as an abandoned reprobate in the* churches hissed in the theaters hooted and jeered on the race track impeached and convicted in Congress, and finally driven from the Capital by the most obscure country roads, avoiding the ordinary course of travel for fear of the execrations of the people.

Such stuff as that, "to be hated needs but to be seen." One would aa soon think of arguing with a polecat as of replying to such vile "tosh."

islander of Public Men.

EDITOR EXPRESS:-Enthusiastic pursuit of happiness in the way of shooting quails deprived me of the privilege of seeing the "Evening Gazette" of last Saturday until yesterday. In the paper of that day, there occurs under the heading, "The EXPRESSdefends the thieves," the following language: "The editor says these fellows are not thieve-and robbers, who have been appropriating the proceeds of the School Fund to their individual use, but simply gave an "erroneous construction fo I hi law," and that this is "bat a mistake of duty" Was there ever such villiany called by such endearing name"?"—and more comments of the same character.

The men to whom reference is made, and who are called thieves and robbers, are Hon. John 1- Morrison, and General Nathan Kimball, ex Treasurers of Stale, and Hon Thus. M'Carty and Major John 1). Evans, ex-Auditors of State.

By some curious interpretation of pro priety, it has become a rule with public men not to notice the attacks and disparaging insinuations of editors, it being held the wise plan to remain quiet and let partisans have it their own way. This is doubtless real Christian resignation, though I believe the public would relish a little animated reply now and then, even if it involved an abrasion uf something more than amicable relations.

There are no more honorable men, for instance, in theState of Indiana, than Mr. Morrison and General Kimball and there is not an editor in the country who can show a purer record, in any particular whatever,than they. During their terms of office they handled millions of dot* lars of State funds, and no man can truthfully say they diverted one dollar from its legal or proper use. They discharged the onerous duties of their positions with eminent success turned over the full amount of every trust, and left the school fund, of which so much has been said, in

vastly better, and more remunerative condition than it ever was before The only direct charge made against any of these men is that they received interest on deposits—which charge may be sustained, and may not.

It may be well to say, however, that at no time in twenty years has theState had a suitable place to keep with safety a quarter of million to a million of dollars, and the State officers for their own security, if for no other consideration, have been compelled to make deposits of money where it would be sale. And there is not a man among the free and easy accusers of the State officers, if he had any sensei but would have done the same thing. Three times within the last few years theState officers have been notified by responsible detectives that English cracksmen and burglars had made arrangements to break open the safes of the Treasurers and Auditor's offices, and once arrests would have been made at the. door of one of the offices, had it not been for the blnndering of a detective.

No fair-minded man will accept the fact that the Attorney-General has brought suit against the ex-State officers as evidence of guilt. Intelligence enough fo understand the simplest movements of political strategy, is sufficient to show the objects and purposes of these suits.

It is a well-known axiom of law that even an accused parly shall be deemed innocent until he is proven guilty and yet, upon the merest rumor, growing out of partisan malice and ill will, the most serious charges are made against men of unblemished integrity and honor and men who would scorn to do a mean act, who for their childrens'sakes, if prompted by no other motive, would not swerve from the line of strict duty, are prated about as thieves and robbers.

It would be no more aggravated injury if it were said that Col. Hudson, while Agent of State, misused the funds which came into his hands, and that he received interest upon money held on deposit with Messrs. Winslow, Lanier & Co. for the payment of interest on the State debt. He could not feel more keenly the wrong done, if he were called a thief and a robber, than do Mr. Morrison and Gen. Kimball.

These accusations are a gross outrage and were it not for the fact that the people themselves place little credence in the wholesale charges made against men they have been proud to honor, the utterances of slanderers would be less frequent, and there would be fewer cases of genuine stupidity and malice. J. C. B.

WILL Gov. MORTON also make a full exhibit of the manner in which he grew rich so rapidly and unaccountably?— Journal.

Gov. MORTON will be happy to learn that he is rich. His most intimate friends have no knowledge of any wealth in his possession.

IT ArrEARS that the illicit fur business is not confined to black cats. Complaints have reached Washington that the Alaska Commercial Company, which at the last session of Congress obtained the exclusive right to take and kill the Alaska seals for the purpose of obtaining their furs, is not adhering to the terms of the contract. The terms of the lease require the company to pay an annual rent of £65,000, a royalty of 52 62.J on each fur seal taken and sold, and 55 cents on each gallon of oil extracted and solid. The complaints set forth that the company does not pay the natives whom they employ to catch the seals, and moreover, that they abuse and oppress the natives, who are almost entirely dependent upon them. By the terms of the contract the company was required to provide educational facilities for the natives, and it is alleged that they have not done this. By far the most serious charge is that the company is defrauding the government out of its royalty on the skins.

THE Chicago "Republican," restored to its old form and s'ze, appears among our exchanges and is heartily welcomed. The editor says:

The past career of the paper is the best pledge for its future quality. To perfect independence and fearlessness in commenting on measures and men, it will add assiduity in the collection of reliable news of every character aiming at comprehensiveness without prolixity and brilliancy without vulgarity. To the many thousands of our readers who have clung to us so faithfully and pardoned all the shortcomings of our evil days we are grateful beyond the power of words to express, and or.e of the most gratifying features in connection with our resumption is the general satisfaction evinced by the public thereat. Thus, after a period of trial and calamity through which few journals are called to pass, we are again in deep water, ready lo welcome back all of our old friends and hoping to rec«ive the patronage of a host of new ones.

In this hope the EXPRESS most heartily joins and commends the "Republican" as a thoroughly "live" newspaper. Ma its career be long and prosperous.

THE Vincennes "Sun'- ffings this at the local Bourbon organ: We rocollict that less than two moons ago our Terre Haute cotemporary was among the foremost in his denunciation of Bright's villainies as State Printer. Since then, however, he has visited Indianapolis and dined with "the young Democrat of large aspirations."

Another Murder.

Parties arriving from Boon\.llc last evening, reported that Wm. Williamson killed Wm. Willis, in that town, yesterday. The exact cause of the murder is not known, except that the parties had quarrelled. Whether the malefactor was arrested or not, could not be learned last nipht, but the police are on the lookout. —Fmnsville Journal, 21s/.

CURRENT NOTES.

THEnew executioner of Paris is an Ital

ian. CLEVELAND, is to have a $75,000 lighthouse.

THE State Supreme Court ia again in session. TWENTY new railroads are to be constructed in Ohio.

THERE are eighty thousand unoccupied houses in Paris at present. HUMBOLDT was the first to propose a system of storm indicators. ..*1''

COLORADO has 442 mileiof railroad, all built within the last two year*. THE paper currency of Russia is about equal in amount to$525,000,000.

THEREare nineteen colored men in the Georgia House and four in the Senate. MORE fire-engines have been sold since the Chicago fire than for a year before.

THEOhioStatedebt amounts to?S,995,029. $735,115 of it has been paid this

year. *'[VO THE lobster factory at Prospect narbor, Me has packed 18S,000 cans of lobsters the present year.

THERE is not an unmarried young lady in Camargo, Illinois, and not a single marriageable young man.

TWENTY-EIGIIT divorces have been granted during the present session of the Superior Court at Hartford, Conn. v:

GENERAL WILDER, formerly of Greensburgh, Decatur County, whose brigade fired the first shot into Chattanooga in 1863, has been elected Mayor of that city.

THE census of the Dominion, which has been taken this year, shows a population in tha' country of 3,484,924, an increase of about twelve and a half per cent, in ten years.

THE Indianapolis "Evening Journal" says the lat Treasurer's report indicates that the clip of cat fur was small for the month of October. The animal was sheared too close in the beginning of the season.

THE Indianapolis "People" learns from a gentleman in that city, Captain McCoy, Clerk of the Supreme Court, that the Clark county mob not only violently outraged the law, but made a fearful mistake. Captain McCoy says that the men were probably innocent of the crime for which they suffered, and says the grand jury, after a patient investigation, were unable to find a true bill against them.

THE Indianapolis "Journal" says: "A very able vigilance committee broke into the Franklin county jail, on Saturday night, with the intention of lynching McDonald Cheek, the murderer of his father-in-law, Harrison. The leader of the lynchers was knocked down by the prisoner, and his revolver taken from him, with which the balance of the brave vig« ilantes were dispersed. TJiis is the best specimen of Cheek on record."

THE "Times and Chronicle' learns that President Grant, who is strongly impressed with the necessity of practical reform in the civil service, will speak decidedly on this subject in his annual message. We may conjecture that he will not deem a life-tenure in the departments, or the introduction of men whose hostile views will incline them to look with complacency on whatever will embarrass the Administration, the best methods for securing honest and efficient sorvice in subordinate places.

SPEAKING of the approaching State Conventions, the Indianapolis "News" says: Congress will remain in session until the last of June at any rate, the National Convention of both parties will not be held much before June, and we think both parties will find it profitable tojmake no nominations, and proclaim no platform of opinions until the national issues are made up. Our campaigns in this State are always too long, and an immense amount of work is done, and an immense amount] of energy and strength spent so long before the election, that it beomes worthless.

VICTORIA is a district in the southeastern part of Australia, containing 98,000 square miles. The interior of the country is so fertile that the first explorer gave it the name of Australia Felix. It contains valuable gold mines, its exportg of the precious metal in 1856 amounting to more than §60,000,000. Besides gold, its principal exports are wool, tallow and hides. The London "Colonial News" publishes a comparative sfatement of the population from 1836 to 1S71, inclusive. From this it appears that in May, 1836, the total number of inhabitants was 177 in March, 1846, 32,879 in March, 1857, 410,766 and in April, 1871, 729,645. Its growth far surpasses even that of Chicago. A large majority of the inhabitants are English and Scottish.

IT IS SO very seldom that a ,md progressive idea in the cause of education is evolved in any one of the Southern States, that the Philadelphia "Inquirer" thinks North Carolina deserves especial mention for not only an innovation in her sparse schools, but in hitting upon a method which must be adopted in the North. The Carolinians have introduced into their public educational establishments rcwing machines, which the female s. holars are taught to operate. Nothing more useful could be ta-ight the growing girls. The sewing mac'iir.e has become a lever in our civilization and peculiarly fitted to be wielded by the hands of women. If all the female pupils of the North Carolina public schools, in addition to a thorough knowledge of the English language or acquaintance with arithmetic, mister the mechanical intricacies of the sewing machine, they will go forth to the battle of life well armed.

ON SATURDAY the Democracy of Evansville were defeated in a special election for Councilman in a ward hitherto Democratic. In an editorial commenting on the result, the "Courier" of that city says:

We have suffered, as a party, as much as we can afford to suffer, by an effort to abide by the ancient organization of the Democratic party. A bright future is open to us, but it is through the pathway of the passive pol'cy suggested by the St. Louis "liepublican." We must unite with the liberal Republicans who oppose corruption and vice in politics, if we desire to be recognized again as a political power of the land. Unless we drop into the line suggested, we shall have no political organization in the canvass of 1872.

What does it signify that some blatant leader shall cry aloud, "follow in the wake of the old flag step to the music of the union fight for the principles of our fathers remember the doctrines of Jefferson and Jackson?" If the cry is heeded, we may look for political defeat as our portion in the next ten years as it has been in the past decade.

In localities where there is a substantial Democratic majority our advice may be regarded as foolish and suicidal. But Democrats who have suffered a succession of defeats, year after year, will see the force of our suggestion, and adopt the policy we are obliged to indicate.

The serious attention of DINIEL and the "Journal" is respectfully called lothe "Courier's" remarKs.

THERE is not a single State in inis Union, where in each year of the last six years, a conspicuous, open and confessed record has'not been madeof money stolen by Radical office holders.—Journal.

Unless the author of that unsupported charge is more ignorant than the average of his readers, he knows it to be a huge

lie.

Alex. Stephens on tlrant. It is the custom of many Democrats to speak of GRANT as "ooarse," "ignorant," "conceited" and incapable of any othar conversation than "horse-talk." To those who think the President is a man of that sort, we commend the testimony of no lees a personage than the ex-Vice President of the late Confederacy, a scholarly gentleman and the highest Democratic anthority. In his "Constitutional View of The War," Mr. STEPHENS says: '.'In answer to your question, as to what impression he (Grant) made upon n?e, I will say, in the first place, that I was never so much disappointed in my life, in my previously formed opinions, of either the personal appearance or bearings of any one, about whom I bad read and heard so much. The disappointment, moreover, was in every respect favorable and agreeable. I was instantly struck with the great simplicity and perfect naturalness of his manners, and the entire absence of every thing like affectation, showy, or even the usual military air or mien of men in his position. He was plainly attired, sitting in a log cabin, busily writing on a small table, by a kerosene lamp. It was night when we arrived. There was nothing in his appearance or surroundings which indicated his official rank. There were neither guards nor aids about him.

Upon Col. Babcock's rapping at his door, the response, "come in" was given by himself in atone of voice and with a cadence, which I will never forget.

His conversation was easy and fluent, without the least effort or restraint. In this nothing was so closely noticed by me as the point and tarseness with which he expressed whatever he said. He did not seem either to court or avoid conversation, but whenever he did speak, what he said was directly to the point, an1 correct, the whole matter in a few words. I saw before being with him long, that he was exceedingly quick in perception, and direct in purpose, with a vast deal more brains than tongue, leady as that was at his command.

We were with Gen. Grant two days, and the more I became accqtiainted with him, the more I became thoroughly im* presjed with the very extraordinary combination of rare elements of character which he exhibited. During the time, he met us frequently, and conversed freely upon various subjects, not much upon our mission.

In further respone to your inquiry, I will add: that upon the whole theresult of this first acquaintance with Gen. Grant, beginning with our going to, and ending with our return from Hampton Roads, was the conviction on my mind, that, taken all in all, he was one of the most remarkable men 1 have ever met with, and that 13 career in life, if his days should be prolonged, was hardly entered upon that he himself was hardly aware of his own power, and that if he lived he would, in the future, exert a controlling influence in shaping the destines of this country, either for good or evil. What it would be, time and circumstances alone could disclose—that was the opinion of him then formed, and it is the same which has been uniformally expressed by me ever since."

An Iinpertant Distinction The Cincinnati "Commercial," a journal which certainly cannot fairly be charged with ultra Radical partisan con« duct, has a long editorial on "The Raid on Indiana Officers," in which it says:

There is a wide difference between the grounds of action against the Auditors and Treasurers and those against the Printers. The first, at the worst, have, in the absence of all law, "been a law unto themselves." They have broken no law, if they have obeyed none. They have cheated nobody, made no false statements, incurred no imputation of dishonesty. The Printers, on the contrary, if they have obtained public money illegally, have not only operated wiihout law, but in defiance of a most direct and explicit law. The only act directing the disposition of School Fund Money by the Auditor is that of 1867, which transferred the Sinking Fund to the oare of the Auditor. That requires him, when he has got four thouand dollars or more, to notify the Treasurer and Auditor of it, and then requires them to invest the money in Indiana State stocks. As it was impassible to find enough Indiana stocks in the market to absorb the

Sinking

Fund money (destined for theSchool Fund, finally) the Auditor was left with cash and without directions what to do with it. The law rejuired him and his sureties to pass it unimpaired to his successor, but nothing more. The long interval was a legal blank. In that interval he lent it, or deposited it upon interest in banks. The law does not direct it, does not forbid it, does not say anything about it, and leaves it to be settled now by the Courts, or later by statute, whether money gained without direction or contemplation of law from State money, belongs to the State It certainly ought to.

•'Behind the Mask."

A singular change has come of late over the face of Spring—which would be an odd remark at the shivery tinf€ of the year if I meant the season instead of my dog. I have been along while absent from the old house, and upon my return, this evening, the brisk brown tail that once gyrated in such a spasm of glad welcome, wagged a most feeble greeting. The dog bounded not as of yore to ray very shoulder, nor wheeled about me in ecstatic circles. There was a welcoming wriggle still, but not the old, abandoned, unkempt fury.

But as the "dear fellow sits yonder near the andirons there is a tender look in his dark eye that tells me, quite as well as the former a.'onvof joy, that his cup runneth ove. fh the happiness of my coming back His front is to the fire, but his small, fine head is cocked on one side, while he watches me with full content. And as 1 look into that frank face of his, every line of which is as familiar to me as—my own, I notice the change of which I spoke.

The hair upon his forehead is turning white, two lines of gray run down even to the point of the nose, und there is a look of age about his features—about his whole bearing indeed—that I never noticed before.

When one comes to think of it,—as terriers go, Spring is an old dog. Many a summer has shed its leaves since we laid his mother in her narrow tomb,—a queer little African circus-dog, she—about half Spring's size, and with hide as bare and smooth as an elephant's save for the halfdozen gray hairs that stood erect on her head, imparting an air of wise and sprightly venerableness, an'd Ihe scrimpy tuft at the end of her tail. And Spring's companions have likewise fallen away from him, one by one, leaving him to his solitary path and fireside—solitary save for human sympathy and cheer. Zoo was the last to go—that genial ani mal the tradition of whose early corpulence still in thin old age hung about his shrunken sides, rendering every movement replete with dignified unwieldineas.

The strangest part of this change in Spring is the old-yonng look. He seems like a boy with his grandfather's spectacles and wig. I cannot reconcile the gray hair and weary movements with the atmosphere of youth that remains. His young soul surely is masquerading in this ancient ^uise. But I can see through the domino, my dog! You may not know that vou are wearing any—von wonder, I think, at the unwonted film over the clear vision, at the invisible bands that bind those lithe and willing limbs.

What have the mutations of time, the chemic laws, to do with the souls of us? "He who lo^es is in no condition old." Spring, my dear fellow, do you love your maeter?

There, there! that will do,yon young rascal,—Down, Isav! Down!—From the "Old Oubinet Scribner'x for December.

ROBERT BURNS in the Swiss-German idiom is the greatest novelty oftheseason. One would scarcely admit the possibility of successfully transporting the Scottish Bard into German verse, but Borrodi has taken the lays of the sweet singer of the Scotch Highlands,and brought them into such harmony with his own mountain dialect as to convince the world that there most bean innate harmony between the tongues. The Swiss poems sonnd like the echo of Robert Burns among the Alpine heights, and the translator has found a poetic relation between tbe tongues that has a deep significance There seems to an affinity between the dialects that develops a sympathy, not only in construction, but also in thought and feeling. It were in vain to attempt to put Robert Burns into any Romanic dialect, because the very thoughts are Germanic in their nature.— Scribner's for December.

I. I us be Tirtoons.

The a sharp financier. He manag ke good people, or people who tin. ti ate good, pay the dividend ii lie stock he issues, and cash all hi- iums on rascality. Sometime*, the good people get tired, and, taki a fit of severe virtue, protest. In-he city of New York there is a Commi.iee of seventy rogues all the ciiy is in a state of fierce indigna' tion. It has been found that the public parse has been shamelessly robbed—that the work has been going on for years— and that the robbers are men of power, both in and ont of office. We say this is found to be the ase, but we do not mean to intimate thaf the finding is a new one. No one is any more certain to-day than he was five years ago that the tax-payers of the city are systematically robbrd. It was just as well known then as it is now, that men in public office were making fortune* illegitimately. The figures that the "Times" and its coadjutors have published have not «dded to the popular conviction in this matter. They have simply shown how much the public have been robbed, and it is the magnitude of the figures that has roused the moral indignation. The people knew their rulers were doing wrong, but they were too busy with making money to interfere. They knew they were stealing something, but thought it best to permit the theft, and only became overwhelmingly conscientious when they found that the rogues were determined to have their last dollar. Then they grew^wide awake, grasped their pockets, cried, "stop thief!" and became virtuous.

Seventy operating against multiplied by seven, ar,d

Shall we—must we—confess that such enormous frauds and robberies as these which we notice are only rendered possible by a low condition of the public morality? Must we confess that only in New York city could such things have happened? Must we confess that this shocking and unparalleled malfeasance is only an outcropping of a universally underlying baseness, and that there are ten thousand men in New York city alone who would have been glad to do exactly what our rulers have done, and would have done it with the opportunity? Think ye that these rogues are dinners above all Galileans? Let us acknowledge the truth. They arc proceeded against not because they offend fhe public conscience, not because they have done wrong, but because they are the enemies of public virtue, not because their example demoializes and debauches our children, not becatfse they shame and disgrace us in ihe eyes of tbe world, not because they have stolen from us constantly, and not because they use us as clean means to dirty ends, for all these have they been doing for years, with our knowledge and consent but because they have stolen so enormously that we are in danger of being ruined. This rouses us, and we find that we have a conscience, carried for convenience in the bottom of our pockets, and only stirred by thieves who ie.ie.i try tar down.

It is lime that a couimuniu in which such robberies are possible were alarmed for iisilf. We are overrun by men of easy virtie. Picking and stealing are going on eve:y where. The community is full of men who are anxiou- to make money without earning it. They fill the lobby at the capital, they fasten in vari ous capacities upon railroad corporations, they hang upon insurance companies, they seek for sinecures everywhere. Their influence is intolerable, yet they are everywhere tolerated. They regard it as now rong by whatsoever and inwhat way soever they may be benefited by a corporation. All means are fair which take money from a corporation. Stockholders are systematically robbed, and have been for many years, yet there is not moral force and earnestness enough inthe popular protest to gain the slightest attention, or arrest the passage of the plunder for a moment. There is moral rottenness ia every quarter. The "dead-head" is everywhere, and the dead-heart- invariably keeps it company.

But let us rejoice that we have at last a protest. Ay, let us rejoice that a few have had the opportunity to do what many would be glad to doif they had the opportunity, and thus learn what a wilderness of wolves our apathy and toleration have sheltered and permitted to multiply, until our lives and fortunes are in danger. The popular greed for money coupled with low morality, runs just as directly into robbery as a river tends tothesea. Thereis never a railway disaster in which fifty persons are rendered momentarily helpless, that does not find pickpockets and plunderers on board. It is so East or West, North or South. There is never a battle in any locality that does not call from the immediately surrounding country a host of human fiends to strip the slain. Opportunity is all that is needed to prove how universal and powerful is the propensity to steal. What the better elements of society need is union and determination in the effort to shut from rogues this opportunity. No bad man is fit for any office, and the good men of a city who do not think it worth while to unite for the simple purpose of being ruled by good men, have none but themselvrs to blame if they are robbed. Indeed, by refusing to unite for this purpose, they become participators in the crimes which they condemn.—Dr. F. G. Holland, inSeribner'g for December.

THE Catholic "Telegraph" is iudig nant at the satement that the Pope has accepted money from the Italian Government, and contradicts it upon knowledge. It is a virtue, we are informed, of the Holy Father, that he will not have anything amicable to do with the Kingdom of Italy. A good many hard words are wasted by the "Telegraph" about the occupation of Rome as the Italian capital, but it is all vanity and vexation of spirit. The attempt to get up an American indignation because Rome is thi Capital of Italy, will not be a success. If the Pope allows himself to be driven into France by the Jesuits, the Italian Goverment will be relieved of an embarrassment. Christendom will be entirely calm. The infallible associate editor of the "Telegraph," who is so vigorous as a disturbing element, can excommunicate all the able secular editors in America, if he has a mind for the performance of that ceremony but we doubt whether anything particular will happen after that is done. —Gin. Commercial.

A FUNNY paragraph is on its travels about a girl in Vermont who having sued her lover for breach of promise, laid her damages as follows: Nine shillings per wkee for "setting up," with cost of lights and fuel added in. We may laugh as much as we please at this, but the girl is a sensible damsel, and we hope that she got a verdict. Bringing actions for damage to the feeling and injury to the heart, and for the value of pangs and delicate disappointments, is a great deal more mercenary than asking for remuneration for loss of time and even of fires and lights. A sharp girl has a perfect right to say that, but for the wicked conduct uf the dishonest swain, she might have married somebody else an! lawyers, when they go to the jury for the swindled plaintiff, should put the case in that way. It might spoil their eloquent pathos but, after all, that sort of a thing has become hackneyed and unimpressive. Business is business, and most women in this kind of litigation mean busine=s and nothing else.—-V. Y. Tribune.

The Yellowstone.

Tbe second expedition to the Yellowstone recently returned from that region with stories even more marvelous than those brought by the Langford parly of 1870. It has been said, in the West, that every man who goes up there loses his reputation for veracity. But we suppose the most incredulous will be compelled to believe the account of Prof. Hayden, who iiad charge of tbe government expedition of 1P71 and it is proved by scientific measurements, made by him, that Lang ford had—with the bug-bears of unbelief and a lost character before his eyes—in many cases greatly underestimated the heights and depths and distances We believe we do not err in stating that the calm judgment of science accords with the enthusiastic declaration of the first explorers, "that there is not on the globe another region where, within tbe same limits, Nature has crowded so much of grandeur and majesty with so much of novelty and wonder."

One of the most striking peculiarities of the scenery is the wild, fantastic prodigality of color—and this feature, with the picturesque formations and grand sweeps and stretches of landscape, we shall hope to see faithfully reprodnoed upon the ample canvass which T. Moran, who accompanied the expedition, intends to devote to these unique, magnificent, and congenial subjects.—"The Old Cabinet/" Scribner^B for December.

DON MOTKO KELLER, a Los Angeles, California, wine grower, has made a hundred and sixty thousand gallons this year.

from the Chicago Republican. PHIL SHBIIBArS PASS.

The following poem was suggested to the author by the inhamaa eondnct of Mississippi steamboat captain, who refused to honor the pass issued by Phil Sheridan to a lady aad family that were bereft ol everything by the late Are. "Say. eap! there's a girl cry in' below.

A kind of cityfled lass. With a couple o' kids at her side in tow, And a bogtu sort of a pass. "She says she's come from the city of flames.

That they called the Qaeen of the West An' she look* like one of yer high-born dames. Though she aint very grandly dressed.

"I half believe she's a lady bred An' tellin' the gospel truth, Phil Sheridan signed the pass himself.

An* it's hard when ye think of her youth.

"I told her I thought you'd take her through. Though it wa'n't in the regular way. If you 4«n't, why I doesn't know what she'll do, r-'

For she hasn't a dime to pa7." ijt i-

"Go down below, with yer maudlin trash, And tell her to pack her stuff. If she wants to ride she must pay the cish,

Or I'll put her ashore at the bluff. "Phil Sheridan don't write a pass for me He did me a dirty trick, & And if the North was to drown at sea.

I wouldn't throw 'em a stick. 'TBglad to think that their time his come To taste of tbe scorching blate. Fori don't forget old Sherman's march

Asa thing of the by-gone days. '"I'll honorno pass from a Tankee cusi,^"» 'Cept it carries the holder to h—II So iut her ashore without further fuss

When I give yea tap o' the bell." "i I

"Well, cap'n, I know you're the boss afloat. An' it aint for me to say. But take yer stamps from that twenty note

And iet the poor woman stay.

"An' I hope when ye jump on the Ileavenbound craft And the minister tickets ye through. That the boss of the boat, when he comes abaft.

Won't say thatyer pass won't do." Aurora III, IST1, COPFALIK.*.

CHICAGO.

Men said at vespers: All is well! In one wild night the city fell Fell shrines of prayer and marts of gain Before the fiery hurricane.

On threescore spires had sunset shone. Where ghastly sunrise looked on none: Mon clasped each other's hands, and said: The city of the West ii dead! Brave hearts who foutht, in slow retreat. The fiends of fire from street to street. Tnrned. powerless, to the blinding glare, The dumb defiance of despair. It

A sudden impulse thrilled each wiro That signaled round that sea of fire Swift words of cheer, warm heart-throbs came In tears of pity died the fl.ime I

From Bast, from Wes). from South and North. The messages of hope shot forth, ,• And, underneath the severing wave, The world, full-handed, reached to save.

Fair seamed the old: but fairer still157

The now tho dreary void shall fill, ,*« a, With doarer homes than thoso o'crthrown. For love shall lay each corner-stone.

R'se, stricken city I—from theo throw '"i Tho ashen sack-cloth of thy woe And build, as Thebes to Amphion's strain. To songs of cheer thy walls again I

How shriveled in thy hot distress Tho primal sin of selfishness 1 How instant rose, to take thy part, The angel in the human heart!

Ab not in vain tho flames that tossed Above thy dreadful holocaust: The Christ again has ireachcd through thee The Gospel ot humanity 1

1,r!'

Then lift once more thy towers on high. And fret with spires the western sky. To tell that God is yet with us. And lovo is still miraculous [J. (I, Whittier, in the Atlantic Monthly.

THREE KISSES OF FAREWELL.

[Theso exquisite verses are from one of "Esther Wynn's Love-Letters" in SCBIBSKE'S for December.] There, only three, mydarling.

Separate, solemn, slow ntvs ,, Not like the swift and joyous ones We used to know When we kissed because we loved each othor

Simply to taste love's sweet. And lavished our kisses as tho summerl Lavishes heat,— But as they kiss whoso hearts are wrung.

When hope and fear are spent. And nothing is left to give, except A sacrament!

First of the throe, my darling, Is sacred unto pain j* We have hurt each other often

We shall again, When wo pine because we miss oach other. And do not understand How the written words are so much colder

Than oye and hand. I kiss thee, dear, for all such pain •?., Which we may give or take Buried, forgiven, before it comes *5

For our love's sake I

The second kiss, my darling. Is full of joy's sweet thrill We hare blessed each other always ~v

We always will. We shall reach until we feel each other. Past all oflime and space We shall listen till we hear each othor

In every place The earth is full of messengers. Which lovo sends to and fro: I kiss theo, darling, for all joy

Which wo shall know 1

The last kiss, oh, my darling. My love—I cannot see Through my tears, as I remember

What it may be. We may die and never see each other Die with no time to givo Any sign that our hearts are faithful

To die, as live. Token of what they will not seo Who see our parting breath. This one last kiss, my darling, seals

The seal of death!

ALEXIS.

The Grand Duke Alexis (pronounced Alexsee) has arrived in New York, and American Snobdom, represented in tbe metropolis, is in an ecitacy of obsequious joy. The protected absence of theSvetlana, the vessel in which the Duke took passage, had created the liveliest alarm both in Russia and in America—in the former a very natural feeling, born of fear that he had gone lo Davy Jones' locker, and in the latter because the "pregnant liingea" of the knees of society were threatened with anchyloses unless the idol speedily appeared before which they were to pay their daily devoirs. The arrival of the titled young gentleman will make peace in both countries, and ax a beatitude to the peacemaker is among the very first in the catalogue—Blessed Alexsee! The pleasure we feel in welcoming this scion of the Royal House of Russia, is mingled with the intensest satisfaction bccau^e there have come lo our shores so many gentlemen whose nsmes areas household words in this country. We need name but a few to cause a thrill of delight to our readers when we say that the probabilities are (hat the Duke and his suite will pay Indianpolis a visit while en route lo California. There are with the Grand Duke, in addition to General I'oshuet, Prince Yakoff £chakofoki, Alexander £rgomistofT, Alexander Menshikoff, Nicolay Defcjensky, Lieutenant Vassilly Sholkunofl, Valdimir PopofT, and Midshipmen Alexander BertokofT, Ivezanca ToretenofT, Joan Lededoff, and Nicolaoff. These mi liar names embrace but a few of the officers of the immediate ship in which Alexis sailed besides these, the Russian squadron bearing the Duke comprises the cot velte Bogatire and the clipper Abreck, both of which vessels carry gentlemen whose names are equally as well known a« thoce we have taken the liberty to especially mention. A large circle of friends will be delighted to learn that Peter Venokurofl and Constantine Takaroff are on the Bogatire. The firm position in favor of ihe success of the federal arms assumed by these, and many other noble hearted Russians, during our civil war not forgotten by loyal America their names and memories are held in lively remembrance by our people, who will be glad to extend to their conntry, through them, a warm and grateful greeting. The Duke and suite will soon pay a visit to Washington, when the President will be able to express to them, in a representative capacity, the thanks of the whole nation if it shall be possible to obtain an interpreter at the State Department with a heart stout enough to brave the orthoepical dangers of the occasion.

Ind. Journal.

LOllSVILLE.

SUHVIVORS or THE PARK TflAGKDYiLOUISVILLE, KY., Nov. 21.—The two young ladies, survivor* of the Park tragedy, still linger in an apparently dying condition. Their heads are terribly mangled, but there is a bare possibility of their surviving.

ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.

A young man named Newton Johnson was shot dead at Henryville, Ind, this morning, by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of Augustus Schlamm.

HALIFAX.

i: JTt'j CHOLERA. HALIFAX, Nov. 21.—Cholera ha broken out in the eastern section of Halifax connty. The cook on the steamer Franklin is supposed to have brought the disease into the country. He is recovering, but other jersons who caught the disease from htm have died.

Arrival of Duke Alexis In Ntfir York.

A (jrand and Brilliant Reception.

Latest Advices from Salt Lake.

Brigtiam to Appear in Court*

Destructive Fire at Kit Carson, Colorado.

CHOLERA AT HALIFAX.

NEW YORK.

SOUTH CAROLINA BONDS.

NEW YORK, NOV. 21.—A Tribune dispatch from South Carolina confirms reports of fraudulent issue of South Carolina bonds. The Governor charges the Treasurer with a fraudulent issue of bonds, or rather of reselling bonds which had already been converted into new bonds. The State Treasurer and Financial Agent deny thi«, and say the Governor is misinformed. The result of the matter is that the Stale Treasury is empty and the credit of the State beiow par. The Tribune says that

GENERAL ARTHUR

has some qualifications for the Custom House Collectorship that he lately held a $10,000 Tammany office from which he was only driven on the Tribune's expose. He is a devoted servant of the Murphy clique, but he is not personally an objectionable man. There are reports that

CONNOLLY'S RESIGNATION

was forced from him by a promise that ho should not be prosecuted for his doings. It is alleged to-day by the Tribune that there are rumors of negotiations abroad by Connolly and his son of several mil lions of city bonds which do not appear in the list of city indebtedness, and which are unauthorized. Connolly is said lobe preparing to

VISIT EUROPE.

Others of the ling are also said lobe getting ready to leave. Connolly's retirement will have tbe effect to hasten

TWEED'S RESIGNATION.

The latter is said lo be getting more depressed every day. Various other RESIGNATIONS are soon expected, The Tribune alleges that

COLLECTOR MURTH

is reported to be scheming for a place in the reorganized city government and that prior to Murphy's resignation he dismissed an efficient weigher lo make room for one John G. O'Brien, ostensibly his private secretary but really a hanger on, whose onlv duty was to converse with local politicians. The same paper also asserts that the mercantile community is

DISAPPOINTED

by Arthur's appointment, particularly as he is a lawyer and politician. A reporter who has interviewed

HORACEGREELEY

learns that Mayor Hall sent a letter some time ago to Greeley oflering him a Commissionersbip of the Parks Department, vice Sweeney. Greeley returned a letter at once, with a declination. It is understood that

MR. ENGLAND,

of the Sun, accepts the commissionersbip of Education. 1IENRY S. STEBBINS declines the Park commissioncrship tendered him.

EX-DEPUTY CONTROLLER STORKS will be reappointed Deputy Controller. EXPIRED.

The second arntst order in the cace of Ingersoll expired yesterday wiihout having been served. There are

CONFLICTING KUMORS

as to the whereabouts of Ingersoll, Woodward and Uarvey, but nothing definite seems to be known on the subject. 8TEAMUOAT LAWS.

At a meeting of steamboat owners yesterday, steps were taken to form a permanent organization and petitions are being circulated requesting Congress to amend the steamboat laws. The World states that the charters of several

SAVING BANKS

owned by members of the ring, do not contain provisions for the protection of the public which are found in the charters of other Saving Banks.

ARRIVED, *'"'1

steamships North American from Rio Janeiro and Egypt from Liverpool RECEPTION OF GRAND DUKE ALEXIS.

At eleven o'clock this morning ihe steamer Mary Powell, with a reception committee of about five hundred persons, including a large number of ladies, proceeded down the Bay. Over 1,000 persons assembled al the pier to witness the departure. The steamer was g»ily decorated with Russian and American llags. Nearly all the vessels in the Bay were dressed with flags, many of them displaying Russian colors. The steamer llenry Smith, with the executive committee, has sailed for the Narrows. Broadway is thronged with persons awaiting the parade. A great number arrived from the country on early trains. Building* on Broadway and other principal streets are decorated with flags, and the National Guards are out in full force. 2 P. M.—Perha|s on no occasion has Broadway been so crowded witlra holiday dressed mass of people, as it is at this moment. There are about 10,000 troops in line, stretehing froru ihe Battery two miles up Broadway. Th£ display is certainly magnificent. Evenr one seems to be bent upon cheering. The thousands of flag poles on Broadway arc filled with flags. Facades and windows of manv buildings are decorated with Ameiican and Russian flags. Every available outlook on the street is occupied by people of both sexes. The Grand Duke landed at 1:30, and after considerable ceremony, amidst the roar of cannon, deafming shouts of welcome and cheers, he took a seat in a barouche, dressed in magnificent uniform.

Hii staff of American and Ru-wian Admirals, and other officials, followed in barouches. As the Piince pa«ses up Broadway he is loudly cheered by the people at every step. The militar), which line Bioadway, are preseniing arms, dipping colors, bands plaving, handkerchiefs waving from widnows by ladies,and the scene is one of the m'Hl magnificent and inspiring.

COURT OF A KNEKA SESSIONS. In the Court ol General Sessions this morning Judge Bedford reconvened the Grand Jury, and charged I hern on frauds against the city, and suggested that iliey send for Charles O'Connor to assist them.

MANDAMUS.

In the Supreme Court to day the mandamus to the Board of Canvaspers. com pelling them to canvass the ald»*rmanic vote was taken up, but adjourned till to morrow. Judge Brady hns granted an alternative mandamus returnable on Thursday.

STOCK EXCHANGE.

Stock Exchange this morning decided to close the building at 1 p. to allow the members and clerks belonging to the military organizations to join the procession in honor of Alexis. CEREMONIES OF THE RECEPTION OOMMIT-

MITTEE.

The Mary Powell with fully GOO persons onboard, including all the members of the executive committee of the Grand Duke, left her moorings at half past 11 o'clock precisely, and started down the Bay in view of ihe Rtusian and United States fleets, all ihe vessels of which presented a magnificent appearanee, being decked with the colors of all nations from stem to stern. The upper Bay was filled with steamers and sailing ve-^els, and booming cannon, blowing whistles and dipping colors gave the whole fcene an animated appearance, as the Mary Powell rounded the Battery along side of the United States frigate Congress, and rook on board Rear Admiral Rowan and staff, and Capi. Devenport, of Ihe Congress. As these officers left the frigate the band on board tbe Powell played Hail Columbia. The Powell then steamed up alongside of tbe Svetlana, and a boat was sent for Minister CaUcazy and the Itusaian Consul General Bodisco, and their secretaries, who went on board the Svetlana to inform the Grand Duke that the reception committee awaited his arrival on board the Powell, to tender him the hospitalities ofthe city. The Duke accepted, and immediately went on board the Powell, accompanied by Catacazy and the Consul General and others. He was received by General Aspenwall and the executive committee, who formed in a line on the lower deck, while the Duke passed through lo the upper saloon. Arriving there the Duke was teceived bv the entire