Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-05

The Washington correspondent of the New
 York Evening Post has attempted to answer
 the old question, Why does not Congress do
 something2 Among the reasons he gives
 why Congress does not act oftener and more
 speedily is the following: "The members
 are too old, having passed the age of action.
 I find by study of the Congressional Direc-
 tory that the average age of the Representa-
 tives is fifty years and some months. This is
 too old by ten years at least. A man at fifty
 is either grandfather, or ought so to be, and
 hence our popular chamber is in reality a
 House of Grandpas, and is marked by the de-
 liberative and conservative habits of mind and
 body characteristic of this amiable but not
 energetic division of our species. We some
 times speak with concern of the fact that the
 four millions of negroes in this country are practically dissranchised. But a larger and
 better class fares no better. White Young America is taxed without representation.
 There are but six members of Congress under thirty three years of age, and but forty -one under forty"
 The discovery of Nihilists among the ser wants of the Winter Palace shows how secret ly and effectively the oonspirators work. Some of those appointed for attendance on the Czar himself had aroused suspicious by their manner. It was, moreover, discovered that they were in the habit of leaving the rooms allotted to them in wing of the Palace at nightfall, and of not returning before four or five o'clock in the morning. Count Adlerberg, having been in formed of these circumstances by some of the Czar's faithful domestics, gave orders that the suspected members of the household should be watched, and without delay proceed ed to search their rooms. This led to the discovery Of Nihilist manifestoes, pamphlets, proclamations and kind of diary in which the daily occupations and movements of the Czar were carefully registered. His daily habits, the hour of his walks, every particular of his life, were thus known to the Nihilists. The conspirators who have just been discov- cred in the Palace are also suspected of being accomplices in the attempt made on the life of the Czar at Moscow. The Nihilist procla- nations seized in the rooms of these servants are printed with type in every respect similar to that of the Imperial printing establishment of the Senate, and it is thought that the printing characters were stolen from that es- tablishment by some of the printers employed in it who are in league with the Nihilist Com mittee.
 It was announced in Virginia City, New, short time ago, that very rich ore had been found in the Lady Bryan mine, and the stock took decided rise. When experts visited the mine it was found that drill hole had been ''salted" with rich ore. The stock at once went down, and there were many losers. The Virginia City Enterprise mildly remarked concerning this incident: 'sLet all the ex- plantations in the world be made, and the re- suit will be the deepening of the impression in the East that mine management in the West is not altogether in the hands of men of scrupulous honor" Just so And the bad impression concerning mine management In the West will be still further deepened by the recent report of the Sierra Nevada mine, the stock of which rose a little over 8 year ago from 75 cents to $270 share. The mine has never paid dividend and the stock has gone to below $2O share. The year 1879 opened with an indebtedness of $239, 443 to the Bank of Nevada. Not dollar of this was paid of during the year, but instead $2o, GOO of interest was paid. There were three assess ments of $2OO, GOO each, and two of $500, 900 each, making $1 200, 900 of such reoeipts and about $25O, ,oO0 of cash was received from bullion Among payments were .$267, 900 for mines and machinery, $6o3, 1000 for vari ous interests in shafts, ''$1s5, ,ooO for'woed, and so on. A good long listis given of items, but the sum of them is that about $1, 400, GOO was spent to get $25o, 900 out of the ground, and that $250, 900 was all owed before the year began and is still owed.