All Sorts Of Pen-scratches

- The Toledo Herald speaking of the veto and the Republican party, says : - " That policy has been to manipúlate the bonds and curren cy of the country so as to enrich creditors and iinpoverish debtor - to starve tho worksr and fatton the dronesof. the hivo." TAtf may, boen, the policy of tho party in power : on that policy was basod tho vetoed bill, passed by a Republican CongresB, and interfered with by the veto. The bondholder is assured his interost in gold, the vetoed bill provided " cheap money" or money not worth ita face in gold for the laborer. The interest of the laborer is in liaving the money he is compelled to take made worth ita face in gold, so that disorimination inay not bo made iu favor of the bondholder. Tho Herald is Democratie only in name. - Moses Taylor, an " innocent" bondholder, has commonced suit against our neighboring city of Ypsilanti, in tho United States Court at Detroit, to recover four years' interest on $30,000 (bonds) issued in aid of the Detroit, Hülsdale and Indiana Railroad Company. As the bonds in question were on deposit with tho State Treasuror at the date of tho decisión of the Supremo Court in the Salem case, and could not by any possibility have passed into the hands of Moses Taylor without notico of such decisión and their consequent invalidity, it is probable that the city will defend to the last. - The Supremo Court on Tuesday donied tho application for a mandamus against tho Governor, requiring him to show cause why he refuses to ruake a certifícate of the completion of the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal. - The court held that ithadno jurisdiction, the Governor being a co-ordinate department of the State Government, acting under the discretion conferrcd upon him, and not responsible to the judicial department. He can be impeached for wilful neglect of duty but not mandamused. - The Ohio Constitutional Convention has dono what the Michigan Legislature should have done : submitted alternativo propositions, one prohibiting licenses, anc the other requiring regulating legislation. Absolute prohibition is out of the question until both the views and tastos of a majority of the people are reformed The traffic may be restrained and hedgec in, and at the same be made to foot the bill. Open and watched or policed saloons are to be preferred to club rooms and "bidden holes." - It is ínnounced iu a Washington dispatch that the House Committee on Postofflcos and Postroads will report a bill providing for the prepaymont of postage on all newspaper or other printed matter, probably at the rate of two oents a pound. If the House bill providing free county circulation shall pass the Senate and become a law this prepayment bill will be generally acceptable to the country presa. The howling, if any, will come from another source. - The Democratie Herald, of Toledo a number of which has coiné to our table is a full-blooded inflationist journal, and as such is a mis-representativo of Democracy in any true senso. Cheap paper money smacks vory little of the Democracy of Jackson, Benton, Van Buren, or other Democratie fathers. The party has nothirig to gain by the course of the Uerald under the new regime. - Once more the Detroit park has coma to grief, the Supreme Court having on Tuesday, by a unanimous decisión, denied the application for a mandamus to compel the Mayor to sign tho bonds issued for the purchase of the park lands The law of 1873, under which the Commissioners made their contracts, was held unconstitutional. - Gen, Howard (of Freedmon's Bureau notoriety) has been acquitted by tho court martial. The vote of the members of the court is reported : Por acquittal Gen. Sherman, Gen. J. J. Reynolds, Col. Meigs, Col. Miles ; for conviction - Gen. McDowell, Gen. Pope, Gen. Getty. - Bret Harte gets f600 for his last story- or so says an X. The public is more interested in knowing trhen his last story is to be written. - Terrible fires are raging in several o) the northern and western counties of the State, destroying standing timber, milis, logs, lumber, etc. - That " Heathen Chinee "- Wong Chin Poo - who carne to grief in our city some months ago, locturod at Adrián last week. - The Supreme Court closed its session on Wednesday. Mes. Blizabetii Cady Stanton opened the woman suffrage campaign in our city on Tuesday evening, addressing a densely packed audience in the Unitarian Church, - a large number failiug to get admittance. Mrs. S. bases woman's claim to the ballot (she said suffrage and gave a wrong deflnition of suffrage) on these grounds. among others : that it is a natural right instead of a political one ; that it has been guaran teed to woman by the national constitution (14th and 15th amendinents); and that taxation without representation is opposed to the principies of the fathers. In defending her positions she was more ingenious than logioal. She also considored the usual run of objections to woman suffrage, and liko any speaker not replied to seemed (to her sympatheizr8) to make a clean case. Hereafter wo may tako occasion to disouss some of the points she made. - At the close of hor address Mrs. StaxToN took a voteby asking allwomenwho desired the suffrage to rise, which was responded to not very generally. She then - intimating that men were usually modest and timid - asked all men opposed to woman suffrage to rise, and not one responded. It was a complete victory, but then we couldn't help thinking that wo had never seen as sharp practico in a ward caucus, and this (modified) stanzas would come to our lips : " Fat ways that are clark and tricks that are vuin The woiuaii politician will be-pi'uuliar." We complete in this issue the publication of the amended or revisod Constitution, with the notes of the compiler or reporter, which briefly but clearly point out the important changes from tho present organic laws of the Stato. In arrangement tho revisión is an improvement on that of tho Constitution it is designed to succeed, and some of the changes are to be commended. There are also some changes not for the better. Between this and the election we shall review the document, and in duo time shall advise our readerB (which may not, however, bo of the least importanoe) whether we shall vote for or against it. Meantime every voter should give it a careful reading.