The Balance In The State Treasury

on the 28th was f1,178,320.33. A comfortable nest egg, but not so profitable to the "pet banka" as when they could loan 11 the njoney on deposita. The Republicana of Connecticut met in convention on the 29th uit., noininated a State ticket headed by Henry C. Eobinson, appointed delegates at large to the National Convention, and built a platform, which on the financial issues is the very antipodes of tho Indiana Hepublican platform. The Supreme Court of the United States hai settled the Omaha bridge contest, by deciding that the bridge is a part of the Union Pacific road and must be so operated, and that the eastern terminus of the road is at Council Bluffs on the Iowa shore. This is a viotory for Council Bluffs, and will knock down the ohargos for transferring cars and freight. Hon. C. T. GüRiiAM, of Marshall, late MÏDiiter at the Hague ; Hon. Witter J. Baxter, of Joncsville, of the State Board of Education ; and Bon. Julius Ctosar Burrows, of Kalamazoo, the " Columbian Orator," are each said to have been offered the position of Assistant Secretaiy of the Interior. A Marshall dispatch to the Detroit Tribune mak os Gorham " confess," but disclaim ftn acceptance of the offer. Is that the place Gen. Hill has "gono for'r" Minister Schknck has published a card in a London paper, declaring his ■tentiou to sail for home " in the noxt steamer " to give testimony before the House Emina Mine Cotnraittee." The country is.to be congratulated on the fact that something has turned up to bring him home. Conceding that Lyou lied in his testimony - as Schenck says - he lied to a good purpose, for even a short absence of Schenck from London will be a credit to the country. On Wednesday, by a vote of 32 to 24, Senator Morton succeeded in getting the bill declaring the true intent and meaning of the Union Pacific Railroad acts postponed, and Pinchback taken up. Mr. Paddock, of Nebraska, was the only Republican votiug no. Messrs. Edmunds, Christiancy, Dawes, and Morrill, of Maine, counted as certain to vote against Pinchback's admission, were absent or withheld their votes ; but the vote indicates his admission whenever his friends can harden their cheeks enough to come to a vote. After a brief discusson, participated in by Senators Alcorn, Norwood, and Edmunds, the pending resolution was postponed for an ezecutive session, and probably came up yesterday under the head of unfinished business. l UK Ijansing it&pubUcan takes ín high dadgeon our suggestion that its editor " assumes to read lectures to the prees on the ' valué of accuracy,' " and saya " it was rather an unkind Hing.' It was not ntended as a " fling," - we hare too much respect for our cotempo rary and bis always readable Journal to "fling any flings " at bis head. It was only a terie way of expressing our surprise at nis citing the law in question - " a horse of another color " from that wo were endeavoring to corral. We would gladly have gone out and heard that little " familiar talk," - we accept the amendment and say " lecture " nu more, - but could n't get leave of absence. However, we will excuse the Hepublican't " unkind fling " at our inexcusable typographical errors : that is if it won't put us on auother wrong scent for law which don't exist. David A. Wells declines to be entered as a oandidate for Congruas from the Third Connecticut district, viee Starkweather deceased. In doing so he alludes to an intimation that he is nol entitled to be considered a Democrat and adds : " I desire further to take advantage of this opportunity to say that the oíd and fundamental principies of the Democracy, as I understanc them, are mainly these : Hard money (spelled with a big H and capitula throughout) ; taxation for revonue purposes only ; and such a restriction on the powers of the Federal Government that it shall neither do, nor propose to do, for the people, anything which the people are willing and able to do for themselvos. If these are the principies which the Democratie party propose to recognize, maintain, and adhere to, then count me in, first, last, and always, as a Democrat." If they are not the cardinal Democratio principies of the Democracy then there is no use for a Democratie party, and David A.. Wells will not be counted out alone. THE VERDICT of " not guilty " in the Babcock case, at St. Louis, on Thursday of last week, did n't greatly surprise us. Tbe links in the chain oi criminating eridence wore not all perfectly welded, and tbere was that opportunity for a legal doubt which the law beneficently gives the criminal at the bar. There was a fanure to connect, by direct evidenoe, the defendant with thu conspira - tors in tuch a maimer and to such an eztent as to make him legally guilty of their frauds upon the govornment. But going outsido the jury box, tbe circumstances surrounding the case, the private correspondence between Babcock and the already convicted conspirators - both before and after oonviction, the mysterious and unexplained telegrams -telegrama which Babcock was to make clear and innocent when the opportunity offered, the attetnpts of the counsel of the dofeudant to shut out these telegrama and all other defense, auiack of that technical defense to which all roguos resort, and leaves a fixud impression that the Seotch verdict " not proven " would have come nearer the mark. For judging from the tone of the more conservativa pross of both parties, and from the expressed opinión of thinking men of all parties, Babcock does not go out of the prisoner's box with unsoiled garments or clean hands. " Morally guilty" is the comment of & large majority of the oommunity. This is what the Detroit Post says about the proposod cutting down of ap)ropriation for navy yards, public works, etc. : " The stoppage ot' governoient works, whether it be the stoppage of shipbuilding, or the stoppage of the manufacture oi arma, or the stoppage of river and harbor improvements, or the stoppage of building court-houses, lostotKcus, and custoiu housen, means ;he stoppage of work and wages for tliousands of honest mechanica and laborers." And so the government raust go on planning and building fortincations it does not need, sbiptt to rot at the wharves, arms that it should and never need have ueo for, buildings that are unnocessury or unnecessarily extravagant, taxing au overburdened poople to reflll an impoverished treasury, - and just to keep " honest mechanics and laborers " at work. That is the idea of a paternal govorninent, a governraent that must look after all the minutia of social as well as political life, must assiimo the guardiauship of the individual and bis affairs as well as the care of the Statu. lts legitimate conclusión is that the governnient must bread and clothe every citizen, or find him emplüyment by which ho may earn his bread and clothing, and this without any intorvention of other citizens or private corporations as employers. If a uiechauic or laborer is out of a place the governmeut must make something for him to do. Why then does the Post clamor againat the Mississippi levee scheme, the Houthern railroad scheme, the excessive work thrown into the government printing office, or the sinecure clerksbips in the several branches of the government service. ïo build a lovee which will prevent the overflow of the Mississippi will give employtnent to bonest laborera, and is equally as national a work of the improvemout of an obscure rivor or harbor. And the same of the Southern Pacific railroad. Once adopt the Potf$ theory and there is 110 stopping place. The printers einployed in the government printing office - even onthe " Congressional Record " - are not running down the wages of those in the Post office. And then if Unnle Sam is bound to keep all mechanics and laborera in Work the l'ost may demand souiB job work for slack dys, and the AnaüS will put in a claim for a share. The true rule is for the Federal Government to confine itself witlnn its legitímate bounds, and the sooner pcople cease to look to it as tho dispenser of special fuvors or individual support the better. The sohool board of Detroit has rosorted to a very unusual and questionable proceeding : that is, bas cut down tho salaries of teachers for the coming term. If the teachers are hired by the teim instead of the year the board has the legal right to make the cut now ; but the teachers of that city must be incompetent to accept places on such terms. An adjustment of salaries once a year, with engagements for the same length of time, is all that really good teachers will submit to. Doos not the Detroit board make up its yearly estlmates prior to the beginning of the school year ?