It Is Announced That A Suit Has Been

commenced in the Unitod Status Court agaiaat the city of Battle Creek, by a aon-resident holder of some of its railroad aid honds. And thcreon wc have no doubt hangs, if not a tale, certainly a schoinc. And that is this: It is probably hopcd that Battle Creek will not appear and defend, or make the merest pretenso of defense, and that judgment will be allowed to go againsl her by default, and thus gire the bond holders the prestige of haring the dceision of th Suproine Conrt of the State revcraed. ïïow, we hare no objectioti to Battle Creek paying her dobts, but thore ia a principie inrolred in the question of municipal aid to railroikdï which ought to be sottled in a way to command more respect than ii poaaible for a drieision obtained in the manner we hare mentioned. We $aid a principie, we say two principies : lst. Whethor municipality - town, cit or eonnty - may lery a tax and gire the proceeds thereof to indiridnals or incorporaüon to aid in building, tocking and operating a railroad, not for the protlt of the municipality, but on the account of such individuall or corporations, and tlrnn conipel the property-holders to inrest by taxation, and against their wishe and vote ashare of their income, eamings or perhnps real estáte, in railroads to be owned by their neighbors or foreign capitalista, it mattera not which. 2d. And eqnally if not moro ant: Shll the Supremo Court of this State or any othcr State be pormitted to construe a State statuto or the organic law under which it is enacted, or shall this right, enjoyed and held undisputed since the formation of the governments be transferred to the United States Courts, fost coming to be the willing instrumenta of the party for the time being in power, and hastening to register its decroos ? We, therefore, hope that means will be devised to procure no faint-hearted or half way, but a full and earnost defensa to any guit that may he brought, whether it be against Battlo Creek or any othor city or town. If Battle Creek will not defend, other towns not so willing to have judgment entered up against them should do as wat done in the Salem case, ask to be heard, so that a decisión, when reached, Shall have at least the semblance of fuirnesfk A New York Ilerald Long Branch correspondent has been engaged in the laudable enterprise of pumping . " the Government," ór that portion of it being then and there present, that is to say, tho President. And this is one of the rery important items of information extracted : 11 In gpeaking of General Sherman in connection with the Prcsidenoy, Grimt said he and Sherman were warm friends. He was not authorized to speak for hini, but he was pretty certain Sherman wouldn't stand on the Democratie platform. Sherman is no Dcraocrat, and never was." This may be " official, " but to give it full credenca should be cortified to by Babcock, Dknt, and the other members of GliAï(TS military family. - Other important items at the same time pumpcd, were : " The President is gatisfied with Boittwell " ; he "knew but little concerning the reported disagreement between Fisn and the Russian Minister, but supposes tho affair trivial " ; he didn't appoint Brigham Young's son to West Point, and if he had known IIooPER was going to do so ho would have asked Akerman if he couldn't stop it ; and hc would have appointed Gen. Meagher's son, but some New York member got the start of him. There, don't the greatnews-devouring, Presiden tadmiring public breathe easier ? The trial of ex-Congressman C. C. Bowen, for bigamy, was concluded in Washington on Saturday last, the jury bringing in a verdict of guilty, aftor an absence of but twenty minutes. A raotion for a new trial was made, pending the argument on which Bowex was held to bail in tho sum of $5,000. The telegraph says : " Bowen and Mrs. PettiaBSW KlNO Bowen (that's the third and so fur as known last living wife) were during the argument of Bowen's counsel afiected to tears." Bowen could find a precedent in the story of anothor who " took on bitterly " over the detail of his wrongs as given by his counsel, and cxclaimed that " hfi didn't know boforc how awfully he had been abusod." One of the Atlantic cables has beon fished up and repaired. Af ter July lst new ratos are to be charged : $10 in gold for ten-word messages, date, address, and signaturo each to be counted. Tho limit of messages to fifty words is to bo removed, and presa dispatches aro to be charged full rates : in revenge for the recent criticisms of the cable management. If tho increased charge shall check tic sending a deal of bosh the public will be the gainer. The news dispatches by the cable are about as well watered as thoso sent at choap figures over land lines ; owing, porhaps, to getting thinned en, route under the Atlantic. Greeley has a rival at lust. He holrls the high and honorable position of d - 1 in the oiiicc of the Hillsdalo SUiwhinl, and is reported answering a correspondent inquiring about late plowing, thusly : " Plowing should not uu continued later than ton or eleven o'clock at night. Tt gets the horse in the habit of staying out late, and unduly oxposos the plow. He has known plows to acquire spring halt and inflaminatory rheumati.sm from late plowing." Gov. Butler, of Nebraska, has retirod from office. Convietod on articlos of impeachment: that's the cause and not an indisposition to serve the peoplo leniger. He had been converting the school moneys and other public funds to his own use in disregard of thn laws. He bolongs to the " trooly loil " party like t'other Butler. " Gagtric fever " has been doaling soverely with Senator Fexton, at Jamestown, N. Y., but last reports pronounoed him iinproving. Was it " gastric fever " of the AVashington type ? Colfax denies tliat an excessive uso of tobáceo - in imitation of Gkaxt- was the cause of his recent dangerous illness. He attributes his sickness to over-work and the foul air of tho Sonate Chamber. Mus. Ijakk.v Fair, the treman with erend huabands, oonvioted of the mtu Ler of A. P. Crittknukx, - wlio had ono wife besidos Mrs. Fair, - was deniod a icw trial on the 'M inst., and sentenced o be haug on tho 24th day of July. - One phuso of the Faik (riul d.-mands ):i=sing notico. Mrs. Emilt Pitï Sïkvkxs editor of San Francisco paper md leador of the California woman's ights party, with hor knot of strongmindcd nsaociatoa, stood by Mr. Fair luring the trial and nttompted to procure an acqmttal by means not tbe fairf.nt or most crcilitublc. And wben sentcnoe was pronounced the tolegraph saya : "Mrs. P'aik mnintained ftlmost hor usual fiouiposure, but the strong-yiindod women who ttendtxl manifeftted sympatliy in a most ostentatiouB msnner. Mrs Emilt Pitt Stbvkxs, leader of the party, ombraced the priioner's motlipr, and then went OTcr to the reporters' desk, telling (.hem she hoped they were satisfied now, etc, etc. ïhes manifestation continued nntil the court was cleared " Can thore be any doubt that Mrs. Pitt Stkvens & Co. hould be elassed as Mrs. Fair classed herself, with the "freeloTers" ; nnd that in the most obnoxious sense of that term. The Jvew York World of laat Monday : has long and able article on " Jt'arrow Gauge Railroads." The writer diaousBM the economy of constnietion - estimating ti aving of $8,000 a mile, the eoonomy of uporaUng, and tho oapacity for busineai. His conclusions aro all in favor of a narrow or three feet gaugn, and he ealls upon tho "managers of the Southern and Northern Pacific roads to adopt that gauge and thus " enable both these lines to underbid tho one already ín existence for the through trame." According to his estimatcs a three feet gauge road oan be built and put in oporation for $12,000 per mile, with but little if any less capacity than the comnion 4ft. 8 1-2 inch gauge. He claims that a doublé three feet track would do a much greater business than that now done by tho Nevr York Central or Erie rond, and on the whole is enthusiastic in favor of narrow gauges. One point, howover, he doos not touch : the coimectious with broader gauge roads and necessary transfers of freight. The Detroiters aro all in a muddlê concorning the proposed Fourth-of-Julynew-City-Hall-cclebration banquet. In response to public opinión the committee on banquet announced that no wines or liquors would be provided for the dinner ; since which, however, it has " gigged back," and advises the public that tho committee will pay for no liquors out of moneys subscribed for the banquet, but that liquors may or will bc provided bj special contribution, or. " you givo for bread and I'H give for whisky." Tliis don't satisfy those citizens who havo no desire to particípate in a public drinking match - in which gome will inovïtably get drunk - and they are with holding their subscriptions, and even rcturning collected moneys. This action is right, as has been positively demonstrated by other public dinners in Dotroit and elsowherc. A Berlín dispatch, dated Juno 3d and published in the dailios of Sunday itorning last, - with a displayed heading to mitch, - included tho following parajraph : " Emperor William has decided tho San Juan question in favor of the United States." Considering that the ' Treaty of Washington," which provides for the sumission of tho San Juan boundary question to Einporor Wili.iam had not been ratifiod by tu. Kiijrlish Government at the date of the dispatch, and that soiuo months must neccssnrily iaterveae after ratitication and exchange of that troaty bcfore the case can bv laid beforo Emperor WlI.MAM, wo may bo allowcd to suggest that the announcement seem, at least, premature. W'asn't the dispatch a tptrit-gram instond of a cablcgram 't TfiE Independent, lately adiiad by Theodoke Tiltox, favore the ronomination of Geaxt - for the reason that " tho party wants its strongest man." What tho countrj' need3 or wants don't geom to have entorod into the caloulations of that "trooly loil" politico-roligious journal, ncith.or is it over-compliment:iry to (thkeley, Tkaix, Moktox, Victoiüa WOODHTOL, or othcr Eopublican aspirants in pronouncing GbaJTT " the strongest man." But TlLTON himself, now of the Age, doesn't cxacily think that GRANT is the man, and for this reaSOB : "ïhe viotorioua North s'uould not a second timo impose on tho whole country tho conqueror of one-half of it," cspecially, Tiltox muy havo rcasoned, as boing such conqueror is his only fluim. ■ i i -i-i- f m Sechhtauy Bblknap has issiied n order restoring the suspended West Point cadets, members of the first class, for hazing fourth elass boys. He refurs to their " flagrant viohition of good order," and says : " It is to be hoped that thoso cadets who have been guilty of the offenco, and who are soon to gradúate and become officors of tho atmy will never again placo themsclves in any situation wliicli maj' be discrc.litable to them, or roquire tho Presidenta authority to remind them of their duty as officors and gentlemen." .WK.a. - - - The " Southern Prosa Excursión, or in othor words an excursión party mude up of Indiana, Ohio, and Keritucky editow with tbeil wives, - if not divorcel en, route throngfa Indiana - rrived at Jaokson Wedaesday noon, where they ware hospitably received and entortained, takiiiK thoir deportare ibr the Saginaws the same evening. Tho oxcursionists expectcd to do the Yalley towns nnd return hoineward to-day. Tur. total damivgo to Paris is put by a late cablc-pram at 800,000,000 francs, or about $160,000,000. And the end is not yet; bfisides many of tho works of art destroycd cannot lie rostored. - It is announcod tlmt all the fragments of the Column Vendóme hare been gathcred up, and that tho monument will be roconstrueted. The " Govenimpnt" Iüis gom', to Long Branch and tho ráeos for tho Roason. Gen. BABCOCK, brothor-in-lav Dk.nt, and privnto Secretory Dox'ot.vs aro left to run the national innchinc at tho White Houso. Ex-MEMBK1( of Congress Bf.amax has been appotnted Jmlgo of Probate for Lemawee ("ounty, tiet Jndge Beecheb deoeased. Mr. veauak was th( innncdiato predecewor of Jndge Bexobbs, and was reputad an excellent offleor.