The Balance In The State Treasury At

the close of business, April dO, was $878,925.59, an increase for the month of $2,411.59. Hon. A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, has so far recovered his health that he argued a oase in the Suprerae (Jourt on Monduy, - the first in many years. Tuis is a Lansing Repvblican comuidruin : Why was Leónidas like a meniber of the Legislature? Because he held a " pass " with Spartan firmness. TnE farmers of Kansas and Nebraska flatter themselves that the recent " oold spell " extinguished the grasshopper erop, and their hopes of other crops have deoidedly advanced. By resolution adopted on Tuesday, the House raoognized the teuiperance revival and approved the wort of Dr. Reynolds. And now the Dr. can oonsider hiinself an official apostle. On Monday evening last a Free Trade League was organized in Detroit, with I). C, Whitwood as President. The League will find a broad field to work in and plenty of old theories to explode and root out. The tunnel: that is what is troub ling the capitalista and business uien of Detroit just now. And those who don 't wiBh to put their hands in thoir own pockets and contribute liberally to the enterpriso want the city to contrib ute $500,000. On Tuesday Gov. Croswell appoint ed Hon. W. B. Williams, of Allegan, ex member of Congres, Railroad Cominis sioner, nice Cobb resigned, and th Senate iminediately confirmod the ap pointment. We incline to the opinión that Gov. Croswell has made a good se leoticn. - - ---- The Ropublicans are borrowing heap of trouble in their fear that Davic Dudley Field is somehow or other t obtain a seat in the Forty-fifth Con gress and proceed to oust Hayes anc inake Tilden President. Another evi dence that " a guilty man fears his own shadow." That ungallant fellow, Fred Lewis of the Saginawian, makes the fascinat ing young ladies of Lansing sing theB beautiful lines in the ears of the ga; young legislators the Saginaws send t the capital : " Come back, dear Johnnie, corae back. back, bacl A ad hcar the little duckcys go quack, quack, quack. JOHN E. KlNG, of New Orleans whose title was Judge, but who retirec to private life (unwillingly) when th appointoe of Gov. Nichollaentered upon duty, has been consoled for the loss o: the ermine by beiug appoiuted by Pres ident Hayes Collector of Custoins, vice brothor-in-law Casey. And now wha will Casey do ? Public Printer Clapp has resigned D. Defrees, once a predecessor of Clapp has been appointed his successor. Anc Aaron, of the Grand Rapids Magie, anc Don, of the Allegan Journal, are subject of condolence. TYO bilis deservedly carne to grief in the House on Tuesday, - one a bilí to establish the office of State Accountant a sort of perambuliting teacher of book keeping to State officials and State in st tutions ; and the other a bilí to ere ute the office of Superintendent of Stat Property. How many hopos wer blighted? This is the way the Buffalo Commer eial Advertiser puts it : " Through the mistaken policy of our Republican President the ' Lost CauSH ' is again on its legs. Republicana are now where they would have been had the triumph of Confedérate arras compelled them to submit to Confedérate terms. Prosiden Hayes caps the climax of the folly of llepublicaus in restoring rebels to citizenship." There can't be an office-holder loeated in or about that Buffulo newspaper office. Tue Ohio State Journal hasteuB to the defense of President Hayes. It says : " The man does not live who is more earnestly anxious for the welfare of the loyalists of the South, white and black, than the President, and no man will do more or sacrifico more to promoto that welfare." That's what the other fellows Biiy - the follows who claim that he has síiurificed Chamberlain, Packard, and the Republican party. It is the sacrifico they don't relish. TlIOSE legislators and journalists who think it wise and just to make a wide discrimination between. the tax on distilled liquors and malt or brewed beverages, forget that one argument ia favoi of an equality of tax is fouud in the faot - for it is conceded to be a fact - that the beer and wine sellers who pay the $10 tax either openly orsecretly soll all kinds of distilled liquors. At all events the customers of that elass of saloons manage to get something thereat that makes " drunk come." Can it be possible that lager and kindred beers are iutoxicating 'i The Detroit l'ott is n't exactly happy over the result of the Commission's work in Louisiana. It says : " lf the Coiuiuissiou had tried as hard to strengthen Packard as it did to strengtheci Nicholls.-if it had workod as zealously in belialf of the Republicans as it worked in bohalf of the Democrats, - there might have been a different result." And even this does not satisfy the Post's desire for " blood," - the Commission actod with nialice aforethought, and uot only that but under the oiders of the President. Hear : " But it was understood beforehaud that the Commission was to go to New Orleans to pull down Packard and set up Nicholls. No anaouut af súphiutical hair-splitting can concoal this palpable fact." And now we may safely conclude that the Pont, , Zack Chandler and Packard are sorry that they made Hayes President. i The Ypsilanti Commsfcial aays: " The offioe-holders as a matter of course keep quiet. Bat thay in the bottom of their aoula despiso Hayos and his policy nevertheless." We are a little curioua to tnow whother the Commercial, got its nows froui District-Attorney Cutoheon, Agent Lee, Agont Pos', or Postiuaster Spenoer. With ac.coss to such a list of office-holders our cotemporary ought to speak by authority. The New York limct begins a paragraph with, - " The report of the Louisiana Commission is simply an acknowlodgment that the result of their labors has been a surrender, not a coinpromise. AU the legal argumenta are on the side ot tho Pookard governtnent ; " and couoludes, - " From these facts there cnn lo but one inference - viz., that the installation of the Nicholla governuieut is a piece of flagrant usurpation." Evidentthe l'imes ian't enjoying a conteuted state of uiiud. Ex-Sexator William G. Brownlow, botter known to the world as " Parson Brownlow," died at his homo in Kuoiville, Tennessee, on Sunday last, in the saventy-second year of his age. His oareer as preacher, editor, and politician is fresh iu tho mind of the intelligent reader. A beliover in slavery and its perpotuation, he was also a strong beliover in the Union, condeomed uullification in strong turius, and later refused to strike hands with hia own Stato and the whole South when the rebellion was precipitated upon the country in 1861. In his personal habits he was as uncompromisiug as in hia political anc theological creeds. He is reported as saying of hiinself in 1862 that "he never played a card ; never drank a dram of liquor except as a medicine never had a chew of tobáceo ia his mouth, never was at a theater, never attended a horse-raoe, never courted bu one woman and her he married, anc that he had as strong a voice as any man in East Tennessee." Col. Thos. W. Hiqginsox, one of tho oíd, original abolitionists, a co-worker with Oarrison, Parker, Piüsbury and al of that sort, comes to the defense o Hayes and his policy in uumistakable English. Ho says : " I wish to bo counted as one whö approves, heartily oordially, and unresorvedly the action of the President in withdrawing the garrisons from the State-houses of Soutl Carolina and LouUiana." And again " For hiiii, in time of peaoe, to kee] troops in any State-house, in order to determine a disputed claim to the Gov eruorship, is a stretch of power so grea that no State in the Union ought to tol erate it ; so great that it ought to be re sisted by every peaceful meana." Whiol language, true as it is, and Truth itsel could be no truer, was denounced a treason when uttered by Demócrata bu a few tnonths ago. Evidently th world moves. And once more : " Ther is one thiug more important than even the immediate welfare of the coloruc people of South Carolina and Louisiana and that is to maintuiu the right o each Stato in the Union to manage it own local affuirs in its own way, well o the Constitution oboyed. On no othe condition can a republie which cover the breadth of a contiuoutbe inaiutaiu ed." Well put, and for once we strike hands with a Higgineou. And then hi letter closes with these pregnant words " And of all the people in that repub lic, the colored men of the Suuth can least afford to benefit by an arbitrar; stretch of power which may, in othe hands, be usod to crush them." Col Higginson is evidently sane at the last Thk Reqknts - The Rcgents of the Uni versity met in special session on Tuesday eve ning, a full board being present, to couside the requests of that 'legislative petition here tofore referred to. Besides the Regents, there were presen IIou. L. J. Taylor, chairmau of Senate Committee ; Hou. C. B. Mills, chairman of House Committee ; several members of the House Messrs. C. I. Walker and ex-Gov. Fetch, coun sel of the Regenta iu the chancery suit, and a large nuuiber of citizons. The session was opened by President Angelí, who retid a eelection from scripturo and ollered prayer. A series of resolutions were adopted, on motion of Regent Rynd, eulogistic of the lifo and services of ex-Regent Dr. M. A. Patterson, of Tecuuiseh, receutly deceased, and auother awarding a duplicate diploma as Master of Arts to Charles Hurd, of Manistee, the original having been burued. Then the Board went into executive session, excluding all but members of the Legislature and the counsel for the Regenta, and contiuucd therein until after 2 o'clock a. m. As a rcsult of the discussion a resolution to withdraw the chancory suit as against Dr. Ruse and his sureties was lost by a tie vote: Regeuts Climie Collier, Cutcheon, and Ryud voting yes ; and Regents Estabrook, Grant, E. C. Walker, and S, S. Walker Toting no. Mr. Cutcheon offered and voted for the resolution " in dufereuce to the recommoudatiou of the committee of the Legialature " as stated therein, and not because it accordud with his own judgment. Regent Kyud offered a resolutiou directing the chaucery bill araended so as to cover alleged defalcations occurring beforo Dr. Rose went into the laboratory, coininissions, interest, ei)6nses, otc, which was adopted, A resolutiou to refuud to Dr. Rose f831 10 on certain conditious were referred to the Finance Committee, with power. Because of reilectious upon their course, klessrs. Felch and Walkor withdrew from tho ervice of the Board, and Grov. Felch said that ■ be feit greatly outraged at the remarks made, and that it was the first time in his life thut ie had ever been charged with being on both ides of a case." Ho vigorously denouncud the lies which had been set afloat. Au oiïor of Mr. Baal to aive $5,000 to the Juiversity to have the chaucery suit heard Dy arbitrators, the decisión to bo final, and Dougas and Rose each to give bonds in the sum of 2.5,000 was presented, but withdrawn because he Regenta were powerless to so order, Dr Jouglas not cousouting. A cominuuication rom Dr. Douglas urged the proscution of the hancery suit without deloy, aud the Buard, a unaniuiüus vote, so ordered, uew counsel o bi mtainod by tho Executive Committee. - The throo Dutroit duilics unite in commending the decisión of the Board, made in he face of legislativo threats to withhold apropriatious. Read the report ot the House Jniversity Committee, in this paper, aud conder whether tho Legislatura can so do withut ceusurtug its committee and stultifying itelf. But we shall see what we shall see. - No motion was made to reinstate Dr. Rose hat was evidently not wanted by the real ruó. vers in the mutter, aud the legislativo peti. tiouers had been usod with the viow t3 pulliug ome other body's chewuut out of the tire.