Now That The Detroit Tribune Has

given ex-Senator Chandler a " good i sund oft'" as Secretary of tlie Interior, ' we shall expect that the perseeuted and prosecuted Buell, over whose head hangs a libel suit of large proportions, will forget his little differencefr with the ex Senator, and give him a firat-class puff. The Bay City newspaper men having opened their eyes to the fact that two local dailes and two weeklies could not be supported in these times of commercial prostration and ineager advertiaing patronage, have amicably arranged tor a división of the field. The Cltronide suspends its daily and the Tribune its weekly edition, tlius disposing of destructive competition. A full and correct copy of the re cent decisión of the Supreme Court, holding the liquor tax law valid and constitutional, will be found on the first page of this Aegus. It should be oarefully reád by friend and foe of the taxation system, and especially by all who liold that a tax is equivalent to a license. Upon this point JudgeCooley'sillustrations and reasoning must be acknowledged as conclüsive. The Board of Supervisors of Hillsdale countv has repealed a resolution of a former Board, appropriating $200 a year in increase of the beggarly salary of the circuit judge, aud indirectly declared in favor of the pending coustitutional amendment increasing the salaries of the judges. The repeal was well enough, the appropriatiou being illegal, but the Supervisors need not have been quite so mealy-mouthed in recommending the adoption of the amendment. President Grant has commissioned ex-Senator Chandler as Secretary of the Interior, and that gentleman bas reconsidered his understood determination to wait patiently for Ferry's old shoes in 1877, accepted the position and entered upon duty. Mr. Chandler has the experience in public affairs, the executive ability, and the energy to make a good officer ; but we are not of those who believe there will be &ny great or immediate purification in the department. The old rings may be turned out to grass, but he has a host of partizan friends who may prove equally adept in making money out of Indian contracts, etc. We shall see. " Upon a narrow neck of land, twixt two unbounded seas I stand," or soinething like it, used to be sung in the days when we hung on the outer edges of canip meetings; and just now ex-Governor and Governor-elect Hayes, of Ohio, is just on the "narrow neck" or dividing line between imrnortality or souiething else, we don't know which. At any rate, thinking that he, Hayes, is " np to snuff," becau8e having narrowly escaped defeat by the heavily weighted and clogged Bill Allen, the Corunna American has nominated hiin for President. And does the American ignore the claims of Kalamazoo's fnvorite son, Julius Ciesar Burrows, the wag of whose jaw killed Allen aud gave perennial fame to Hayes ? The Evening News, in sketehing the life of Patrick Mc Terney, the Democratie candidato for Ttreasurer of Dotroit, says : " His record as a citizen has been comparatively uneventful, never having run for any public office ; but in the important branch of multiplication, in which the Irish are not excelled by any other nationality, Mr. Mc Terney has boen a distinguished success. He haa been a father to no less than 14 children." A man who has honestly reared sneh a family as that either ought to be pensioned, or quartered on the people in a good snug office : if ouly for the encouragement of that large number of young inarried men who think a family a burden, and are un willing to shoulder the responsibility of a single chick." These are the recorded utterances of M r. Lewis, the Democratie candidato for Mayor of Detroit, spoken and given to the public when he had no idea of being a candidate, and not taken back since his nomination : He believed " that the Sunday law should be euforced to the extent of closing the saloons all day, in the interest of religión, morality, and geod order. I would sooner 8ee my boys coming out of Sundayschool on the Sabbath than a beer saloon, and so would even the fiercest anti Sunday law-men." And yet some poor, benighted, ignorant, but selfrighteous people will continuo to charge the Democracy of Detroit and of the whole country with being the whisky party. Such are the men who don't believe either Zack Chandler or U. S. Grant ever took " a nip." The Democracy of Detroit did a good thing on Saturday last in nominating Hon. Alex. Lewis for Mayor, and in completing the ticket with a list of candidates as a whole above the Detroit average. Mr. Lewis is an old citizen, of first clasa business talent and capaoity, and unquestioned integrity, and if elected will not be the willing or unwilling tooi of that class of Detroit's citizens who wish to " ply their vocation " (and not an elevatiug one at that) on Sunday, in defiance of both the law and the sontiments of the better class of their fellow citizens ; and of that other class who make hberty and license interconvertible terms, like Kelley's 3Có's and his irredeemable greeubacks. Now let the Democracy see to it that equally fit candidates are nominated for aldermen. Law makers should not be habitual, persistent, and determined law-breakers ; neither does the fact that a man is a saloon keeper, and wants to put in seven days in a week, specially qualit'y him for alderman or other official honors. A few less of that class in office, in Detroit and all other cities, would give the people an idea that other classes have some qualifications and rights, and make a city " blue book " read full as well. THE Cleveland Herald risos to remark in the ears of its Rapublican co-laburers in ühio : " The victoiy is not wholly a Rapublican victory. The Republiean ballots thut wore drawn out of the bal lot boxea were put into them by men actuated by other thau mere party aiolives. There were, of courBe, a very liirge proportion who voted the Republican ticket becauso they never did anything else, but the uiajority over the Democratio ticket was not achieved by their unaided stiength. There were not a few Demócrata who voted the Republican ticket, either because their party had couimitted itself' to the inrlation lunacy, or had submitted to priestly dictation and formed an alliance that boded no good to our common schools." Froui which premises, no doubt expressing too much of truth, the llerald urges the Republican party to " exercise wisdom, prudence, and moderation in its further conduct," in order that it may " secure the sanie independent voting on the part of Deniocrats, in the future." And why cannot the Ohio lemocratic leaders learn a lesson also ? The couveution which nomiuated Allen was controlled by a clique of inrlationists with personal ends to accomplish, and who numbered a bare inajority, 'a majority, of that body, making up in noisy assurance and overbearing impudence what they lacked in principies. The Democrats of the convention who were from conviction hard-uioney men, and opposed to the further inflation of a depreciated and uuconstitutioual currency, were. nearly a majority, as they are in the State, but their leaders lacked the nerve to meet and bear down their opponents, and to prevent the commission of the party to heresy. The result, necessary and unavoidable, that result defeat, not of the Deuaocracy bearing along aloft Democratie principies, but of a Democracy committed by demagogues to dangerous ways, speedily followed. The lessou to be learned is this : recognition of prinoiple as eternal as the eternal hills ; a demand for a return of the goveinment to honest ways of administration ; a declaration in favor of gold and silver coin as the standard or measure of values ; opposition to paper promises, by whornsoever issued, not convertible into gold and silver at the pleasure of the holder instead of the maker. Then the people will all stand on the same platform, then the bondholder will not be favored above the day laborer, and then the winds of panio will blow in vain against the finanoial ship. Will the Ohio Domoorats heed the lesson ! No ONE will question either the Democracy of Hon. J. S. Black, of Pennsylvania, or his ability to use vigorous Euglish. And this is his reported answer to a World correspondent who, in a recent interview, asked him the question, " Was the Legal-Tender Act unoon8titutional P" " Of course it was and is, and will be as long as it lasts. The decisión oí the Supreme Court compel8 us to subinit to it. But no court on e&rth eau make any one who has reac the Constitution believe that tne General U-overnment has power to come betweeu two citizeus uf a State and determine how their contracta with oue another shall be executed Congress had no jurisdictiou in such matters. It uelouged to the States, and the States have boiiid themselves npt to exercise it iu such a marnier as to mako'Lnything but gold and silver coin a legal tender. A promise to pay dollars cannot iu the nature of things be performed by oft'eriug pieces of paper. If a man agree to dcliver a certain quantity ot pine boards can Congress say that the promise shall be fulñlled by the tender of buckwheat straw P And it is in the iutlation of these ununconstitutional legal-tenders, known as greenbacks, that somo Democrats, forgettiug their antecedents, would find the panacea for all ills. There may be a modicum of truth in the homeopathie legend, " Similia simüibus curantnr," but it is a fínancial falsehood. To another question, " But Congress has said that a certain kind of paper shall be lawful money of the United States, and does not that make it money ?" Judge Black says : ' No. That which is not money at all cannot be lawiul money. Il' Congres declares that straw shall be lawful boards of the United State, thït will not make it so, for that is trilling with the common sense and reason of the thiug. If this kind of transubstantiation can bo effected by mere iegislation, don't you see where it will lead 't The States as well as the United States may evade the constitutionitl interdict by say ing that puper which they desire to make a legal tender shall be gold and silvei coiu. The whole dealing of our opponents with the currency is f uil of shams and delusions. Like all violations of a great fundamental truth, it must be atoned for. It has doubled the national debt, increased the debts of the States a.nd all municipal corporatíons, tempted individuals to engage in wild enterprises, depressed agricultural iudustry by the most enormous taxes ever imposed, robbed labor of the bread it has 'earned, demoralized the public service and leut corruption wings to fly. It has indeed brought us to hard times. Those who sufter these evils do not find much consolatiou in the fact that the salaries oí officers have been doubled, that speculators have got rich, and that the colossal fortunes of great capitalists have been swelled to ten tunes their former bulk. And yet financial inflaters, believing or professing to believe that " the hair of the dog will cure the bite," are anxious to have more of this " unlawful money" printed and put in circulation. Can folly sound a deeper depth ? The Board of Supervisors redistricted the county on Wednes day as follows : lst. - Augusta, I'ittsfield, Saline, York, Ypailanti City and Towu. Population, 12,480. 2d. - Ann Arbor City and Town, Northfield, Salem, Superior, Webster. Population, 12,554. 3d. - Bridgewater, Dexter, Freedom, Lima, Lodi, Lyndou, Manchester, Scio, Sharon Sylvan. Populatiou, 13,(589. The total population of the county is 38,723, the ratio for a district being 12,908. But the Board, being Republican, seemed determined to manifest exceeding generosity, and construct one Democratie district, so it massed all the Democratie towns in the ,'id district, giving it an excessive population of 781, or of 1,209 over the lst district. For fear the district would n 't be Democratie in any or all emergencies, the Republican majority refused to equalize population by taking off Lodi and attaching Webster; perhaps we should say fearing that Lodi could not be safely attached to either of the other districts. Well, thay had the bad example of the last Democratie " cutting up" to fall back upon, and refused to be convinced of their error. The districts as constituted gave the following majorities in 1874, flguringon the vote for Governor : lst district- Bagley, Eepublicsn, - 95 2d " Comstock, Deniocrat, - - l d " Comstcck. " . 6ó9 These figures may look good to our Republioan friends. Wt could have bettered them - to our likiug. And they may find in a year or two that they have not made a sure thing of it. The Cincinnati Eiiquirer raves like a mad buil because the Demooracy out of ühio refuBed to bow down and worship the paper god set up at its dictaticn : iustead of wbich it had better review its own course and weep and wail becauae of turning itsback npon the timehonored legenda of the Deinocracy. Eailing like a fish-woman, or threatening dire vengeance upon the heads of constitutional nioney Demócrata, is neither the way to atone for past 8Íns or blaze out the way to future victory. A demoralized Bill Alien Democrat writes trom Circleville, Ohio, to hia Democratie unele in this county : " Toll the bell aoftly, there's crape on the door, St. Gteghan is dead, and oíd Bill i no more, And the dirty rag-baby's all draggled and tore " Most affectionately your, "Vox Populi, vox Dei." ünly that, and nothing more ; ao, like gome widowa, he aeema not inoonaolable in h8 grief.