The Employing Printers At

ton have niemorialized Congress concerning their grievances. Tbeil memorial sets forth tliat the governuient printing office does a large class of printing at goverument expense which ought to bo done at private offices and paid for by private individuals. The specifications include the records in all cases cortified from tho Circuit Courts to the Supreme Court ; all the records from the Court of Claims ; the printing lor tho custom-houses which could be bettur and cheaper done in the cities whero needed and used ; and the speeches of Congressiiion. I f tho peoplo are taxed to pay for the printing of the records in either tho Supreme Court or the Court of Claims, or for the speeches of Congressmon, it is au outrage upon tho tax-payers of tho country which the employing printers of Washington lmve done woll in exposing. Wo have in the recent legislation of this State something ukin to the monopoly of the government printing house.- The printing for counties, and townshipg and State institutions - edueational, charitable, and reformatory - which ought to be left to local officers and authorities to procure at home, is now scooped into that great drag-net, the office of the State printing contractors, and paid for by the State. But the employing printers, and especially journalists of the dominant party, stick their thumbs in their mouths and utter no word of complaiat. IS THEEE NOT A VACANCY ? - While SpOCial elections havo been ordered In three of the Senatoria! and two of the Bepresentativo districts in this State to fill vacancies which have occurred siuce the last meeting of the Legislatura, none has been ordered for the First District of Washtenaw County. Claudius B. Grant was elected Representativo from that district in November, 1872, and served duriugthe regular session of the Legislature held in the beginning of 1873. Since then he has removed to the Upper Península, where he has engaged in his profession, and his postoffice address is Houghton. The Constitution provides that " Senators and Representativos shall be citizens of the United States and qualified electors in the respective couuties and districts which they represent. A removal from their respective counties or districts shall be deemodavacation of their oflice." Iï Colonel Grant resides in Houghton County, he cnnnotbe a qualified elector in the First Eepresentative District of Washtenaw County. Why is uot a special election ordered ?-Free Press. The faruily of Col. Gkant is yet in this city, and doos not, as we uuderstand it contémplate removal to Houghtou until somotirue next spring. We presume tbat this arrangement was made in anticipation of an extra sessiofi. This may bo pronounced an evasion of tho constitutional provisión, but as the Legislatura has already established a precedent in similar cases we guess tbat tbis district will be savod the expense of a special election. Tïïc Detroit Ecening Newa " soos littlo forco " in tho Arous suggestion that the amended, or as it calis it, the revised Constitution, cannot be submitted at the April election ; though it coacedes that so early a subuiission will not be practicable. We refer the New to Article XX. of the present Constitution. AmendmcnU must be proposed and submitted by the Legislatura and at a general election, which the best legal and judicial authorities hold that the April olection is not, within the ineaning of the article. The Commission is an unknown body, merely a quasi legislativo committec, and the Legislaturo must ratify, propose, and subinit its work. A revisión can only be made by a convention called pursuant to a voto of tho people. The Jackson Citizen of the 27th inst., contains the following paragraph : Chang and Eng, Siamese twins, are settled in Aorth Carolina. They have eaeh a vcry good farm, ftdjoining each other, and both havo families. They stay alternately two weeks at a timo at each other's farm. Both have children. who havo a fine education, and one of tho twlns liad a daughter recently married. They have good residences on thoir farms, and are suecessful farmers. Whioh boing true, and of couise it is, the thousand and one papers which have announced the death of the twins as having taken place on the 17th inst., and written longer or shorter obituary notices, have wasted a deal of syinpathetic words. Jesup W. Scott, of Toledo, one of tho best known anii inost respectedcitizensof that city, tho publisher of tho first nowspapor on the Maumee River, the Miamiof the Lalce, and a former editor and co-proprietor of the Toledo Blode, died on the 22d inst., aged within a month oí' 75 yea'rs. Ho was brother to J. Austin Scott, of our city.