The Liquor Tax Assessment In The City

of Jackson for the current s ?8,9oO ; n the county, $10,830. AND NOW there are caterpillars anc " millions of them," and down iu Ontario they are dolaying the railroad trains. Gen. Comly, of the ühio State Journal, has been tendored the mission to the Hawaiian Islinds. And now rival offioe-seekers will have soinething to say about the Ohio politicians bagging all the game. Senator Morton'8 cointnittee, with clerk, stenographer, etc, have startec for Oregon, nominally to investígate the complications of the last election, bw roally on a junkcting expedition at the expenso of the dear people. The act ameuding the liquer tax law of 1875 was not ordercd to take iininediate effect, and so beer selléis will paj hut $40 tax this year. Tho act aniending the law prohibiting sales to minors was ordered to take inimediato effect. The Detroit Tribune inakes this statement : "The recent Legislature cost in per diera, mileage, and iucidentals about $88,000, and paper, printing, and binding foot up $20,000 more." Over onefourth of the per diem item is cbargeable to the frequent reeesses and abBanteeism. A COPPER-HEAD snake has put in an appearance down in Monroe County attaoking a laborer named Toms, Is the Hayes policy responsible for tho outrage ? We camo near forgetting to say that the snake was killed, and thui he moasured seven feet fivo inches long and nine inches around. AND now Zack Chandler is reportec as having a grievance. The truckmen who carted his goods and stores from the railroad depot iu Detroit to his residence, confiscated some of his best wines, and he wants the railroad coinpany to pay for them. Hadn't he better consider it an interposition of Providence and tie on a red ribbon ? Good Eeadino : The letters of Gen Butler and Wayne MacVeigh, one ot President Hayes' Commissionersto LouÍ8ana. Butler uses a two-edged blade aud strikes home at every blow. MacVeigh goes for his semi-military opponent with a sledge-haminer. The letters remind us of a somewhat familiar proverb, "When rogues fall out honesi men get their dues." The Ypsilanti Sentinel is more than half right, a good deal more than hall right, when it says : "The Legislature had one good amendment of the liquor law before it, and that was the section making the tax equal on retailing liquor of any kind ; but it was too stupid to pass anything so good as that." It wasn't so much stupidity, as poltroonery, - fear of losing the beer drinker's vote. That was it. The avowed policy of the President is to cali homo every foreign minister, of high or low degree, wLo bas served his country (ill or well) for four full years. He thinks that no American citizen should remain abroad, in the service of his country at least, more than that length of time. They need to come home and lay in a new stock of patriotism. The announcement of -this policy will inspire hopo in tho hearts of a large number of Kepublicans who desire to aojourn awhilo abroad, at the expense of the national treasury. The Milwaukee iSentinel would bo reconciled to tho appuintnien t of Senator Christiancy as Judge Erauions' successor, because it " would open the wuy for Mr. Chandler to re-enter tho Senate," and adds, in contemplating that event, "a statesman would be restored to that body who has done the country noble service thore." A "statesman" - that is good ! However, as Judgo Christiancy dosen't choose to "open the way" to Mr. Chandler, comraent is unnecessary. Gen. Butler says : " I have no influence at the White House, and no disposition to ask a favor of the President," and then he niagnanimously advises all applicanta for office to secure the names of Mr. Corcoran or Gen. Gordon, 01 better than that, " it being understood that both the Kepublican and Democratie parties are deceased, and the old Whig party bom again, to get out to some grave yard and transcribe the names of the defunct members of that organization fiom thoir tonibstones to your petitions, and you will stand a chance of getting what you ask for." And Zack Chaudler gives about the same advioe. lx A SPEECH uiade a few days ago at Charlotte, N C, Postmaster-General Koy proclaimed himself a "Democrat 8till,"and confessed to occupying a "very einbarrassing and anomalous position in a political point of view." He declared that nis first inclination was to declino the Cabinet position tendered him by President Hayes, but concluded to accept the proffered hand in behalf of the South, " lest millions of tho South might be the sufforers" by his declination, and "with the simple intention of assistiug the people of the South to regain soine of the ground which they have lost during the last few years." Ho was asked for no pledges and made none, and this "most extraordinary confidonce on the part of the administration" is one which he "never will betray." Pursuant to his dosire to benefit the South ho proceoded to teil his hearers that "the Yankees are a wonderful peoplo," and of their shrewdness in getting post-routes established all over tho country, and advised the Southerners to follow their example. They must teil the Postal Commission "what routes they want established," the Coramission will report to Congress, and then Southern Congressmen must "get the apiiropriations grauted." And that is what Key is to do for the fctouth.