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NOTES AND OPINION.

The Cincinnati Commercial, discussing the
question of Governors salaries, for the benefit
Of tho Ohio Constitutional Convention, says:
"ulinois gets tho services of Dick Oglesby,"
meaning Dick as Governor, for 81, 500 year."
Now. Dick is Senator Of tho United States, in
receipt OF SC2o per month and John l.. Boy
erdge ia Governor of Illinois, ut $4,000 and a
FURNISHED Executive mansion. Tho commercial
can put ita Endorsement to this and pass 1t along,
WIN a hlnt to tho almanac man o. the New YORK
1fEou7e GnaE tno toVernor OF fchnBy1Vania lH
paid $4,000, tho Governor Of Indiana $4,000,
tho Governor Of Missouri $1,000, etc. +; and that
tho next year'a Almanac ought to 10 corrected.
Tho Baltimore american (orEan out OF tuno)
speaks Of tho " corpse Of Ciyil-servico" a. hay
ing !atoiy boon again galyanlzed."
Tho Alton Tehqraph says that tho lat Of
oaea-pay fe1uhaefe make6 paa sno"lnB
for Democrats" It makoa d worse showing,
however, Tor exAotly,27l peraonS VINO nave not
refunded, ard whom the people will Bottle with,
personally, without respect to ago or previous
conaiulo1 ~, y, lpatt5i noi , 'isuuo. :,
line Indianapolis journal having shown it's
pluck In tho case Of William 8. Holman. Ii. G.,
and having made him exhibit baok-pay receipt
from tho Treasury, wo hopo Ii will now attend to
tho moro Aaeran1 ''easo OF oh'or r. Morton.
Mako linn show recolpt. =. =: j.
Tho degradation Of Massachusetts ia assurn-
ing prominence TINS year, as national miefor-
tune. 'Ihe 1t. paul Osspafca says:,
far - the PEOPLE of the State aro there
q nothing 1of ne parry 70 iear from the eIoct OF
aaete a nc - ~ g nre M n
datc. sven should he wear cloyen hoof add forfod
tall. ;. .. .- The risk from Buffers nomination
loa outside Massachusetts,: In daring to face it tlo
ltopnnhcans %1ll noe eio" eourayo theS MiA hlmply
sn sra aapS no ne
Tho Boston Advertiser, speaking OF tho up
riHing against tho aalary-grabbers, giyos Rono Of
tho notable Incidents, and says:
genti,nents like thcso hays been EXPRESSED in con-
no man who voted for the obnoxious Lii viii hero
after present himself for public oiice thero without
1na. yote an EapeFa1la o5ssee TO MS anb - @
&c D. T. osds Ms o. 1ns Esses 1ss'c we oersye WI
hss po u
his principles II may continue to do 50 ~ long ns he
roqures IL support. But to tho Republicans Of tho
sas ~ tn n1n&ess & @ 4fe @ RI o az their party
suo r % ProalIout N Grant m et shows W. wasm notica
nde to sllcll mon an Bon Hutler and John' a.
Bingham, covered all oyor aa thoy aro by tho in
iqnlty Of the aalary,grab the Prostdont viii soon
lave the eolu shoulder ot nlno-tentha Of the te-
publioans that made g him Psesident. We have
due % 2 lalso ldoa OF piedee sho ffealdoht
gave binghhm long he1oro tug Efan Waa pcrpo-
a.ou, oH1 t fonary t1nr - vo auo ~
Inas to @ ~ ~, a'i. ~. ~
a1a coe a. ov ~ ug1in g1 NY - nil, or no o
ffosiuont' luat hoW, couaa HUI l'lu@ ". aor
own reputation among lhone whoao good 90 81 opinion
10 ousns see smo w %U'y uho u ~ to onnad ~ icy
iho I1s.oM ~ nS--nu''' anu 1''t'6DA~-o'e'e'p""
III 6ectuh YeIy !tho q HoEA VI auPot
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The Russians wore, at last accounts, within
three days march Of tho Khivan Capital. No
efIeotiyo. resistance has boon made by the
Khiyans, and tho most serious obstacles their In
yadors hayo had to mcot seem to have boon tho
hot weather and lack Of water. y.
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The Carlsts wcro badly defeated by tho nopub-
licnns at Esteila, on tho 21st. Their loss was
600 killed and 500 wounded, while the Ropubli-
cans Lost only four killed and ai1ty wounded.
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Emperor William was too unwell to cloao the
session Of tho German Parliament yosterday, hut
Prince Bismarck, who acted in his atoad, aB-
aurod tho members that the EmperorwaB. on! the
road to cortain recovery. - -.
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TEnhis OF sunaontrTroH {rAYAn'.E M ADVANCED
Rs!'%S b t4N psxy s
rnrts Of yoar At tito antno ratio. ~
To ptovont delay and nstnkos. be suro anu give fo's
On:cu address III full Including steto anu ooahg.
(omittancca nny liz mado oor bydraft espress' ioet
Qllco oros, Or in roastorod lottuss. 1t our fifk.
TERMS TO CITY sUnHURtnERa'
Datly delivered. sunay c1copted q eont' rof woek'
AJhr.,. THE TRIBUNE COMPANY.
Coruor Madison aud Doarborn-sts.. chicago, Ill.
, 1873-06-26

Senator Wost, OF Louisiana has written Lis
constituents letter, In which he warns them
that their only hope Of escape from tho dire
tho Republican party. Io dissuades thom from
giving countenance to the Deaurgeard move
mont for new party. Tho Republican party,
he assures thom, Is able to accomplish all ro-
forms that Rro noodotl.
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to hrreat them, Thoao wicked persons who had
boon skipping ropo had, 1t appears, violatod IN
act pasnod by tho uouac Of Commons forbtddlng
any games In tho pnrks. Tho net provides Lint
no unauthorized" porson aha1l play any ganop
vhatcvor in the. parlss. As tho priaonora could
not provo that they woro authorized persons,
they wero convicted antl sot,toncod as abovo
, 1873-06-26

Michigan fruit growers report to tie State
Ponologlcal Society, now in session, TINT they
expect much losu than an average yiold. The
crop in the st. Joo pouch region will be ono-third
less than usua1. ~.tn ~. ,;, =:
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President Grant is followed to Long. Branch
by political goasipe who pretend to haye found
ont that he will Gull Tor Minister jays rosigna-
ton as soop % the Vienna Exposition bus:
cloHaH
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Tho Mississippi papers contain tho annouf fco-
n.ont that Col. NrOomb, Of Credit Nohilior
fame, has begun some operations OF q similar
character On Ills own account in that part Of tho
country. Tho namo OF. tic Vioksburg, Ship
Island & Pensacola Railroad has beon. Chan god
to tlat of the mississippi Valley h ship Inland
llalroad, and is to have d terminus at h Comb
City, which is thus to 10 built up into flour ist
ing community. As matter Of course,
tloro is construction company called tho
Mississippi Valley improvement Company,
which Ia to commence operations by
means OF money from sohool-fund,,:s
known Us tho Ohickasaw School Fund. Tliis
WAS once lost to tho state by the folly Of tho
Legislature, has since boon Tocoyorea through
tho courts, and is now voted away for tue boil
otlt Of tho construction company aforosatd
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Tho Agricultural Bureau reports that tho
wheat crop III looking fully rs we'll rs at tha sea-
son last year. Oats and ryo promise an increaaed
yia11
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Tho o1aot oxtont Of tho i,lcroaao In tho salaries
matlo bytho voto Of tho two Houses Of CongreHs
Oh the 8d Of. March last. aud approved by tho
prosidont. can. bo ucon by tho following tablo: !
, 1873-06-26

Tho Lowor House OF. tho Connecticut Legisla-
lure has pnaaod the Senate UBnry bill fixing tho
rate OF intorost at por cont. -;
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A bill for tho compensatory emancipation Of
Cuban slaves III to bo submitted BY tho Spanish
Government to tho CorteB. '~'
, 1873-06-26

McvrcK ER's TIlEATnE-nIsotson, stroet betweon
Dearborn and et1te.,. The Katie Putnam Tsoupo.
'tTho Unequal bfatoi." -s~...s~.
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC = iIalstad .street, .betweou
Madison aud Monroe. Theatre Comlquo Combination.
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TQ.DAT'S ADJUSTMENTS.

AIKEEtS TI1EATRIt--Wabash nvonue coguor Of Con-
gtcsa strnot. Spectacular opcra. "Zooo."
, 1873-02-01
(From CUTS NsO5 Letter jan. 25h)

JAMAICA.-The weather during the past
fortnight has continued wet, and altogether
unprecedented. Mr.. H%enriques lost three
mules II an attempt to cross a stream in
Saint Mary, while Mr.. Purchase of Ire
lawny narrowly escaped with his life in
crossing q swollen rut near LiIliput; his
horses were washed away, and his buggy
smashed. 1t is feared that these con
tinued rains will injure the present sugar
crop.
A large fruit trade is springing up in
almost all the northern ports of the island,
extending from Port Antonio in the east,
to Lucea In the west and selfheIp is
now doing for the small growers of the
country what the old cry of " ruin !! ruin !!
ruin II" prevented them trying before.
The progress that is being made in the
cultivation of sugar estates recently pur-
chased by Cuban exiles in this island is
quite remarkable, and favorable to Jamai-
ca. LlOyd's Estate, in the parish of st.
John, was bought by a Cuban gentleman,
Senior PachecO, on the 18th of May last,
and put under the management of Senior
G. R. Gezalez, a gentleman we'll versed in
the higher departments of agriculture, in
which he successfully calls in the science
of chemistry to his assistance. There is
to be a Central Factory erected on By
brook Estate, but on the Wakefield por-
ton of it [Bybrook consists of three pro.
perties-Bybrook, Wakefield, and Pal
mer'S Hut, which are now a~malgamated.
The canes are to be grown. by Cubans on
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that with each new trial the inclination or desire
70 enter upon it has decreased in proportion
The work given by task-so it was saId-was
very lndiferently and %slovenly performed. al.
though is was remunerated with the same nrico
as that otherwise paid for good Work,-and II
was SAID that at the same time order and disci.
pine were disturbed, as the labourers always en-
deavored to get through their " task in a short
space OF time, and then wandered about the
country the rest of the day, to the ANNOYANCE
and bad example OF other labourers engaged in
occupations that could not be given out as
tasks. But, then, the system was applied with
out the requisite corrective, which solelv con-
slsts IN connecting the task-work to the fixed
daily workIng-h0urs, common to all the labour-
eTS. Applied IN that manner, the system would
perhaps ind but very few opponents among the
planters and even if it is far from all that
share the sangulne expectations entertained bv
some, as to the increased amount Of labour to
be gained thereby, still it is admitted that there
Is a possibility or probability of some result
being gained in that direction. In regard to
several branches of agricultural labour, some
thing similar, in the form of additional paw for
work beyond a certain amount, has already
gained admittanco in practice. This is GER
talnIy a deviation from the Labour-R equations:
but, on the whole, it is as already stated not the
Regulations Of 1649, ant0uched, which the
planters have found to agree best with their
interests, Alongside of this statute or written
law, certain customs or usages have established
themselves, and have served to smooth sharp
edges and to remedy existing defects and
parties were inclined to believe that with those
notifications the abolr-Rcgulatious gave as
good returns as could be expected, with the
labouriDg population at our disposal. Aud it
IS by no means the case, that of late years the
working abilities, or the disposition Of that po-
pulatlon to work have decreased it mitbt be-
too, that the improved cultivation adopted
OF late, has afforded evidence that we can get
along very we'll with the existing apparatus.
1t has already in a foregoing section been
stated that the Labour-R Regulations are wrongful
Iy blamed, II to their influence, or to the system
Of wages established therein, be ascribed the
decrease which has at times taken place among
our own native labourers. To this must still
be added, that those Regulations are the sub
Ject OF still greater injustice, by supposing that
they serve to deter immigrants from neighbour
ing Islands to come here. The emigration
from those Islands is TO a I much greater extent
dependentSon the state of things in those Is
lands at any given time, than on the state of
things here. In unfayourable years there are
always prospects Of getting labourers from there,
as for instance III 1868, because the labourers
there are not provided for the whole year round
while in fertile years the l~abourers have sufici-
ent employment at home but iust-at such times
it Is that we would also like to have them
here.
Go be continued.)
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WOman's PerpleXity.

1t would be curious problem for a
woman to find out, from the average ex-
preston of mankind, what really is re-
quired of her. The riddle Of the Sphinx
would fail into insignifcance beside it.
At present she wanders in hopeless dark
ness. She has been led through so many
labyrinthian mazes that she has lost all
clue to the truth. Man adores helpless
ness and says it ruins him. He talks
about economy and raves over spend
thrifts. He decries frivolity and runs
away from brains. He pines after his
grandmother, who could make pies, and
falls in love with white hands that can't.
He means over weakness and ridicules
strength. He condemns fashion theoret-
ically, and the lack of it practically. He
longs for sensible women, and passes
them by on the other side. He worships
saints, and sends them to converts. He
despises pink and white women, and
marries them if hScan. He abuses silks
and laces, and takes them into his heart.
He glorities spirit and independence,
and gives cruel thrust Mt the little
vines that want to be oaks. In short, he
refuses to be pleased with anything, I'M
less it is himself; then indites sonnets
to "divine woman" calls her general
angel, fit only for an enchanted paradise,
and created for the express purpose of
waiting upon him, soothing his sorrows,
sewing on his buttons, browning his
happiness, fitting him for Heaven, and
making him universally miserable.
What would the critical lords like :?
Solve the problem who can.
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The FIXTURE of Civil Service Reform

The reception of Mr.. Curtis resig-
nation by the press is significant. OF
course, the bitterly partisan indpend-
ent" journals have, with one voice, ac-
cepted it as conclusive of the abandon
ment of civil service reform. This, I'M
fortunately, was to have been expected.
Most of these papers have no sincere de-
sire for civil service reform. They have
only cried out for it to help on their own
ends. They have prophesied from the
first that it would not be carried out, and
they are very glad of any pretext to de-
clare that il has been forsaken.
BY the really Independent journals of
the country, which have upheld the re-
form because they believe the country
needed it, and have supported President
Grant because they believed him in earn
est in the reform, and are not so ready
to believe evil. They do not hasten to
attribute Mr.. Curtis resignation to de-
spair of the reform, until he shall have
made the announcement himself in some
accessible form ; and they do not choose.
even if Mr.. Curtis himself should assign
his belief that the civil service rules had
been abandoned as cause for resignine
his position, to regard Mr.. Curtis con-
clusion as decisive in the premises. In
this they show their sense, and the pub.
lie will agree with them. The country
will judge the President solely on the
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To Hon. Joseph Medill, Chicago, III.
The Law Of Letters-Singular Case.

One Nolan, having grudge against
Alfred Davis, Esq, of Tuscarawas
county, Ohio, took occasion to vent
his spite upon the latter by poisoning
his horse. AS the offense is severely
punished by the laws of Ohio, and
Nolan being apprised that he was sus-
pected, fled to parts unknown. Davis
made an agreement with the postmas-
ter at Mineral Point-a constable also,
who was TO have arrested Nolan, being
III the scheme. Sometime afterward q
letter addressed to Nolan's son was sus-
pected as having been written by the old
man. Davis and the constable were at
once notified, and the letter was handed
to the constable to be broken open. See
ing that he was about to tear it open,
the postmaster sugge sted that he could
open it III a better manner, and it was
handed to him, and he ran his knife un-
der the folding of the envelope and
opened it. Meanwhile young Nolan
came in and demanded the letter, which
was refused him until read. The con-
stable went to the neighborhood de-
signated by the letter and arrested
Nolan.
Complaint having been lodged
against the postmaster for his conduct,
he was summoned to appear at court
to answer the charges preferred against
him. After the case had been tried
Judge Stoneman, the presiding officer
of the court, gave it as his opinion
that under no circumstances whatever
can letter be broken open, and that
no postmaster can do so without fla
grant violation of his contract. There
fore he fined the defendant $50 and
costs. There is no exceptions what
ever provided for such cases by the
Postoffice Department, but there is a
remedy which it provides, and it is
this "When court of competent
jurisdiction issues a subpoena to a post
master, accompanied with writ of
duccs tecula, the postmaster is bound
to obey, but he is no longer responsible,
but the Judge by whose authority it is
broken open" This can be done in
cases where the public good positively
demands it.
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A FEARFUL EARTHQUAKE.
The city of Salvador Entirely Destroye,

Inc WY OI
The city of Salvador, in Central America,
has been destroyed by an earthquake. Eight
hundred persons persisted, and SO, 000,0 900
worth of property was destroyed. The earth
quake was followed by conflagration, and
many buildings were burned. The following
are the particulars of this terrible calamity, as
te,egraphed from Havana: For few days
light shocks of earthquake had occurred, but
no serious apprehensions were entertained.
IL was on the afternoon of the 4th of March.
about haf-past o'clock, and almost without
warning, that great part Of the city was re-
duced to little more than ruins The ground
heaved like ship in the gale; a terrific thun-
dering burst from under-foot; walls were
shattered and rent in many places with
wide crevices, and roofs sank, and
tiles, ETC., were precipitated to the ground.
Lamps, pitchers. basins, glass, ETC., were
overturned and broken. Three violent shocks
followed in succession, and the servants com
menced to scream piteously and could not be
pacifed. Wild birds flew to the houses
horses grew frantic in stables, and dogs
howling slunk away for protection. Every
few minutes shakings of less violence occur
red. The scene beggars description. Ruined
houses, panic-strickcn people, men, women,
and children, fleeing to the fields with valu-
ables, hastily collected by them the ringing
Of the alarm-bels and the beating of drums
calling all the soldiers under arms, for in San
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The AdirOndacks.

A board of surveyors, under direction
of Mr.. Colvin, Commissioner of Parks
of the State of New York, has just COM
pleted survey of the Adirondack will
derness. Mr.. Colvin's report, which is
just published, shows that the public
has long been in error regarding the
source OF the Hudson river. The river
rises, not as has hitherto been supposed,
in Lakes Golden and Avalanche, but in
a little pond way up in a rift between
Skylight Mountain and Grays Peak,
4, 293 feet above Underwater, the loftiest
source of any stream in the State. In
fact, all existing maps, compiled from
the notes of tourists and the statements
of hunters or guides, are egregiously in
correct. Level plains are represented
where snow-capped peaks abound, and
the discoveries of lakes and streams,
before unknown or wrongly described,
are legion. Commissioner Colvin's re-
port mentions the fact that the region is
gradually losing its small settlements of
hunting population, and that for reasons
unknown the finest forests are slowly
dying, and closes by the suggestion that
the Adirondacks are to be the source Of
New York city's water supply.
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Walking.

The New York Times is philosophiZing
on the slothful habit of riding instead Of
walking to and from places of business,
which our very boys have fallen into,
and in too many cases ride to and from
schools which are not more than three
quarters OF mile or n mile from their
homes. Besides the hygienic injury,
the practice works moral wrong, by
crowding the public vehicles. 1t says A:
In case of foul weather, or in case of a
man who has to go from Wall street to
Thirty-fourth, or further, we should all
acknowledge the necessity and make the
concession. But if cars and omnibuses
were crowded only by those who entered
them under such conditions, how often
and how much would they be crowded p
Only feeble folk and the ailing ought
to shrink from walking five miles day,
and as to the time saved by omnibuses
and cars, the Times is certain it will
be found to be only about ten minutes
on each trip and twenty minutes, in
two installments, is very little to give to
business, and very little to pay for the
benefit that would ensue to health from
q regular habit of pedestrian exercise.
If people choose to ride like
herrings in keg when they need not do
so, who shall blame other men for taking
five cents from each of them for that
valuable privilege? And in seventy
cases in a hundred they need not. From
Thirty-fourth street to the Aston House,
where most of the street railways end, is
two miles and half and there are very
few men who would not be much the
better for walk of that distance every
day before and after business.
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cerda, leaving 800 dead and wounded on the
field The Republican loss was small
France has just paid to Germany an adj
ditional fifty million francs on account of the
war indemnity.
building in Rome was recently destroyed
by lightning and 40 persons buried in the
ruins, of whom were killed and II wounded
Turkey is about to negotiate loan Of $3.50
100000, the larger portion of which will
be devoted to the construction of new rail-
ways
Three international leaders have been tried at
Copenhagen and sentenced TO terms of six,
five and four years Imprisonment respectively
Those provisions of the Treaty of Washing
ton which concerned Newfoundland have been
accepted by the Legislature of that province.
revelation has overturned the Govern
ment of Panama, in Central America, imprison-
ed its President, and gained control of all the
departments, without the loss of life.
Pope Pho Mono is really very i'll. His health
has been huctuating some time, and he was
recently thought to be recovering, but his
trouble has now taken bad turn. He is very
old, and, like President Timers, his position is
such that his death would create a oommotion
altogether disproportionate to anything he has
done during life.
Bidwell, one of the Bank of England forgers,
under arrest 1T Havana, has escaped.
A dispatch from Rome dated the 18th says:
1.-THE Pope. after suffering many hours Of
great pain, is now in lethargic state. His
physicians have forbidden the issue of bull
letins, and the clerical papers have been
ordered to abstain from making reports. 1t is
feared the recovery of the Pope is impossible.
1t is believed that his death will be kept secret
until the conclave has elected successor, to
avoid the interference of Germany and Italy.
All the Cardinals save two are now at the
Vatican. There are 400 Papal troops inside,
and orders have been given to allow no one to
enter"
O'Kelly, the Heralds Cuban correspondent,
has been released from prison.
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FEAR or HEART DISEASE. -The dread
of this complaint is very common, and
very commonly groundless. Medical
students, after hearing lectures on this
subject, are given to interviewing their
professors under the belief that they are
themselves affected. But auscultation
generally shows that the disease is inn
aginary. Why this disease should SO
often be imagined to exist when it does
not, it is difficult to say. But there are
strange examples of this fear. An In
dian officer INDUCED in it for twenty
years, to the annoyance and terror of his
family, and finally died at good old age
from an entirely different cause.