, 1875-11-17

payments can lie resumed at my tlmo without
tAe 1oast disturbance Of actual vnlucs, anu
without my interforcnco with the equities Of
debtors aud creditors.
AN EXTRAORDINARY sILEtcE.
What nils tho st. Louis papers? For weeks
pnst the Government hos been investigating
and prosecuting frauds in tho revcsluo III that
city. a ycry generous proportion of tho
population Of that city has been indicted
mud lnrgo number moro arc under B1rvcil-
lance for "ways TINT arc dark aud tricks that
arc vain in lcnling with "crookel whisky"
Some prominent people hnve already gone 10
the Penitcntinry, and others muBt shortly
follow. The courts arc running night and
day to accommodate tho Government. No
man trusts his neishbor nny longer. No ono
knows whcro tho bolt will next fall. Every
whisky-slop is agltatcd. Every distillcry
trolnbles Lawyers, editors, merchants,
Government officials, private aud public
people Of nil sorts, kinds, pnd colors, even
dead men, have boon scoopod into the not,
md tho work IL still going on. Every news.
piper in tho country outside Of st. Louia
IL filled with tho details OF tho regnant sen-
sation Of the t1ny. State Governments mud
tic National Administration itself stand by in
mute surprise, wondering what will como
next And yet the newspapers Of st. Louis
do not seem to bo awaro TINT anything is
going OH in that city beyond the tlaily inspoc-
t'on Of the Big Fifteen- illon- Dollar Bridge
md tho daily grists of tho Police Court.
Search their columns through aud yon find
no mention Of crooked whisky, Of arrests,
Investigations, indictments, prosecutions, and
penalties; 10 obituary notices Of those who
have boon caught in tho viso no lamentations
for those who are evidently doomed no
sorrow over tho nisdeedsof the past; no bright
hopes for tho futnre not oven MI allusion
to tho matchlegs oratory Of the much
mulctad JoYoE. All his pre-Penitentiary
rhetoric was wasted upon tho people Of st.
Louis, md 10 went to !" tho prison-walls
that hemmed in GAI11Eo, ConuMnua, TAsso,
and NAPOLEON" unloraldod by tic st. Louis
papers. They know not even that "tho
rain falls lightly On tho mountain, tho sun
shines warmly on tbs plains, and the food
even now is settling into its former bed,
where the crystal waters shall again reflect
tho green foliage Of tho oak and tho sycamore,
and tho gentle breezes and birds shall nuke
merry music In the cathedral aislos Of gen.
erous nation" And such plaintivo pastoral
as this, TINT CoRYpoN might have pipod to
Pny111H, tending his dooks beneath um-
brageoua elms, was wasted upon tho tlescrt mir,
likewise his proud prophecy: II ahall breast
the polling storm and lift my head o1ea,
and bold to tho coming sunshine Of truth and
redemption. Truly the prophet is not with
out honor, sava in hlg own county, nnd tho
| martyr JoYcE goes to tho Ponitantiary with
halo about his hond, tho whole country ad-
uaising his farewell spesph, and yet no one in
st. Louis knows 1t. And others must como
and go, and who in St, Louis will know it
She hides her head In the Band, like tho os-
trieh, and faucies no ono secs her because she
seoa no one.
What is tile meaning Of all this? What has
come over the spirit Of thp St. Louis news
! papors? Their discussions Of the Skuptchina,
Of the Hcrzegovinians. and Of tho operations
OF tho Khan Of Khokand, aro able aud olo-
quent; but why do We hear nothing Of
tho operations Of Gov MAop1nE, md Con
MEanus, aud CoH-CAsnos, and possibly OF
still more Cons to come, concerning whom
they concur in continuing unconscious? It
cannot DO tLat they are ignorant Of whnt is
going on in their midst. This would bstray
most la,nentable ignorance aud want Of cn.
serprise, and that tAoy aro not unonterpriaiag
ID shown by tho fact that they are even now
agltating tho possibility Of war batweon
EurjhrI md Nn1ohpn et,1 &f,a r,ccdi31n
t sequences Of Tho proposed inundation Of
! Sahara. Arc thoy 80 utterly delnoralizod
TINT they aro paralyzel and panie-struck as
| they Contemplate tho fearful corruptiona
| Which laso. 30 long festorel In that
wicked city? Or, still moro startling up-
position, have thoy, too, been up to
tho elbowu in iniquIty2 Have they
boon IN whisky that IL crooked? Do they
also fear "tha prison-walls that hemmed in
GAl1LEo, CoLuNpus, TAsso, aud NAPOLEON j?
Aro their eyes, like those Of the laaaentea
JoyoE, fixed "where tho crystal wators shall
again reflect tho green follago of the oak anl
tho sycamore, and tho gontle breezes aud
birds shall make n,orry music In the cathe-
! dral alslcs Of generous nation? This SOL
emn, blank, and ominous silence Ia painful, -
especially painful to their professional b1eth-
ren elsewhere, who, in tho general wreck and
craaa,, are eagerly waiting tor some tldinga
from the st. Louis newspapers. We hope
they aTo not singing 80 email because they,
too, have been oysrtaken in the general
smaah.
The eagcrness with which the Aldermen
consp!rad to continue themselves in an Office
: to which no lay ia attached beyond the torn
for which they were elected has not escapet
al penalty. They put upon Chicago char
tor which the people did not want In order t.
= crafty thls ssiash purpose. and nov tho,