, 1873-02-21
WASHINGTON.
Something to Think About--A National
Convention to Mako a Now u.s.
Constitution.
aExhortation Jim "--~Ille Fer
sonality Of the Press.
Judicial CorruptioIl--TIle Case OF
Judge Sherman.

Judge Sherman.
5Eew-Bread---The Soorned Hu.
snorist.
From Our 0sen Correspondent.
WAsM1xdroN, Fob. II, 1878.
Tho last Electoral vote, 1t is to bo hoped, has
been counted. Liho tho Electors Of Germany
who Ind 10 choose the Emperor, the American
Electoral Collage Inns probably expired.
10 nonr EIEorons.
1t would Btill bo beautiful form Of clecting
our Proa,dcnt, If the public's attention to their
own Affairs pormitted.-to give tho finest mod
osty in each State the honorable privilege of Az
eociating tloir nnncs with Presidents,
Rnd, as the sons of Poers nttond a
King to Ills coronation, to usl,or In d popu-
lar magistrate uudor tho personal escort
OF great aud noblc faculty Of his follow
citizens. But what Ia this Electoral Collcge Of
oura now.a-daya7 A. College without ncho1ar-
ship Or other endowmo,ts, mndo mp Of aernb
caucus notorieties often who are honored with
auch bricf public mention rs soldiers, travellers,
mud passing notoriesics ofton got undor tho DO
groe Of D. D., and LII. D., and no forth, Pan"
g1oss-faslIton.
Tho Electoral faculty has como to haro
chiefly tho faculties OF smoiling, taating, and
handling. 1t rus practical proposition but,
in the rise Of tho great buccaneer gauga called
parties, the College han come to be piece OF
Anery az cumbrons as 1t is dangerous. Thore-
foro, without regret, VIC vipo away ono Of tho
antique conceits of our Revolutionary FORE
forethcrs, and, Oh noitlor party caros anything
about tho matter, it will be . pity to present 1t
to the poople without making sufficient issue to
bring out g. vote. Add, therefore, an nmond-
ment suggesting tho rropriety Of making tho
Office Of Senator elootiya by tho people Of each
State.
We have come to that place where
A NATIONAL, CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
is desirable
Everything has been changed by tho agoncies
OF steam, inyontiong, corporate movement,
prosperity, and emancipation. The Old Consti-
tuition ia an llonored charter, belonging to the
doad goperatsonB. It Gun point the moral,
adorn tile tale and suggest tho framework Of a
new and moro accordant plan Of Republican
Government. But before tho centennial year Of
Independence, We should hold grand investiga-
tion, directed from the advanced thought and
observation Of tho country, and independent
Of party, like the Constitutional Convention OF
1887. Whom tie timos aro out Of joint, as We
uee them now, tho error liea in fundamentals
more probably than III particulars. We are
proceeding like the Amorica subsequent to the
Of b D
ciaty and instrumontalitios.
After the Revolution, they proceeded very
much as ne have dono since tho Rebellion. Thoy
o1patriated the Loyalista, Or Tories, and thon
so{tened toward them. They issued uuch md
various currency. and wore vict1ms of Auctua-
tion, epecqation, high prices, and corruption.
tho SAME States confronted each other. Piece
meal remedies woro proposed; but tho pressure
81 businoHh upon Congrosa prevented any gen-
ornl and landscape discussion Of the evils OF tho
period, until'May 25, 1857, whom the Convention
oreyae tho Articles Of Confederation mot in
l31o stato-Houge at Philadelphia.
That epcctacle represented, would be the
nt'blest Centennial Exhibition for tho year 1876.
Better begin it on tho Centennial Of the
outbreak OF tito War OF Independence, in
1871 Will, aenoral Grant Il need DO.
presiding in the Chair, as did Washington. and
tue passions Of parties burnt out by their
mutual md equal exhauation, let tho cry OF fac
lions bo drowled. aud tho learned and freodorn-
loving, tho Thinking and practical lenders OF
the period, re-exanlne the needs Of the timc
aud attend to the harmonious revision OF an
organic ByBLem.
Gongress will never hayc the time, and
parties will novor havo tho honesty, to do the
work. That 1t iB needed to be done, ia plain to
any who feel that the questions paramount
hotweon capital aud labor, producer and carrier,
party anu purity. are not aucA AB can over bo
examined by Congress possessing in so little
the confidence Of the people as that which ia
paaasns out and that Which il no1t to come.
1scAR1or's DAILY THIRTY PIECES.
James Harlan, Senator from Iowa, bribo-
taker and hypocrito, uaos his pawnbrokerA'
Journal IN Washington to denounce tho Rev.
robert Laird Collier for his courageous sermon
ian is q gawky, unhsappy-lookin.g, mentally
damned man, and his disapprobation Is q deco
ration. He bought stock in the paper ho
possesses to absorb the printing money Of bis
party every number Of the concern contains
proposals for jobs he expected to crawl into the
Gaoinet again, whero he had onco lain folonious-
~; but tho President, who seems to have keen
perception Of bore, smoked him OUT What
rext ne is to do, is Of courae only to himself and
That he will perpetuate himself under any
circumstances Us nuisance iB inevitable. We
ADVISE nm to open! fenco-ahop, or take holy Or
:, A good deal bus been said about the riso of
the pernonal press in this country. Develop
ments prove that the most oxtraYagant news-
papers come far short of the corruption exist
ing ing, IN the bosom Of Affairs The New York Sun
m some prudent people, Us reckless and rough;
but events have proved that it possessed the
6oldnoas OF either prescience OF knowledge.
70 every name denoted On its Credit Mobilier
lHt, has been traced transnction whose seoro-
" and stealth wero dishonorablo in y high grade
Of public men, and which bravado, perjury, and
disproye or conceal. 4 proat}tnted ] press, d. d.
rootod by socond-rato political aspiranto, who
are willing to. spend their money to get tho
fame and mike tho apologies of politicians,
would be the moat dangerous adjunct Of tho
E1lin OF nation, werosit not the woakest. In
clio nature Of type-metal, toady is Of 10 power
"ith it. He nortralizes the divinity resident
There, as tue beauty and force Of = great lam
gqsEe afe lost ;, When syeophant employs #