Current Affairs

Capt. Eads is to leavo a lasting mark of his haud in tho East, as he has already done in the West. Having bridged tho Mississippi at St. Louis and deepened its moufch at the gulf, he is now to bridge the Bosphorus and lead the tide of travel to India through the Valley of tho Euphrates. At the American Temperance Union, held recently at Cooper Institute, New York, not only were all intoxicating drinks denounccd, but pepper, salt, mustard, vinegur, cakes, candies and other confectionery, as it was stafced they were all calculated to breed intemperabe habits in the young. One of the Pittsburgh papers draws the line between a mob and an insurreetion. The recent railroad strikes, it ftrgues, had a common oauso, and thorc was co-operation among the rioters-everywhere; and the railroad propcrty iu that city was destroyed in the oonrse of a domestic rebellion or insurrection, and not by the outbreak of ft locnl mob, and henee the nation, or at least the State, ought to pay the costa. ThubiiOW Weed is the last and most powerful recruit of the silver dollar party. He goes tho whole thing, including the payment of the national debt in silver as well as gold. If thip affects our credit abroad, and sends our bouds home, so much the better. He thinks that we have money enough to carry our own debts. And he closes bis discussion .with, for him, quito a rhetorical tribute to the virtues of paper money. We can only indulge our readers in a brief specimen: " Gold is passivo, paper active. Gold works out its mission in vaults and coffers. Paper courees like blood through the veins and arteries of business, f rom the extremities to the heart of the nation, imparting strength, vigor and health to tho whole body." The death of the great Hormon leader and despot will open an entirely now chapter in the history of our relations with Utah, and with itscurious "chosen people." No living personage in the cmnzea wona could ro.peat with so much truth as Brigham Young the arrogant saying of Louis XIV., "The state- is myseif ! " The United States down to this time have been dealing not with Mormonism but with the monarch of the Mormons. No successor can take his place ; for even were a successor to come forward capable of fllling it the conditions tinder which Brigham Young created the place and administered it wil not exist for any man who comes after him. Mr. E. B. Boutwell, late a Command er in the United States navy, suggests a remedy for strikes and strikers. He thinks Üiat the plan adopted by the British Government, of establishing free lines of transportation for emigrantf unable to pay their owa passage, anc otherwise encouraging them, should be adopted by us. In the great West anc South, ho truly remarks, thore are thou sands of acres awaiting cultivation, anc innumerable industries undeveloped With a little assistanoe from the Gov ernment, private enterprise could ver soon relieve large cities, mining ant manufacturing districts, from an op pressive weight of unemployed, un happy, and worse than useless popuia tí on. Gen. Lew Wallage, of Indiana, pro poses to raise a regiment or battalion o frontiersmen for permanent service in the United States army, specially lo figh Indians. He contends that the army, a now constituted, is not competent fo such service. He wants to raise a regi ment of men to be mounted on Indian ponies, who can ride, and shoot, anc subsist as tho Indians do. He wants every man in the regiment to be familia with the Indian mode of warfare, so tho; can cope with them on even terms. Th' Secretary of War thinks, and so repliec to Gen. Wallace, that such a régimen as he describes would be very servicea ble, but he does not consider himse! possessed of the authority to order it erlistment. Gen. N. P. Banks, elec from Massachusetts, is preparing tourg upon Congregs at the next session th need of increasing the inducements to settlement on the free lands of the Gov ernment in the West. Already 160 acre of the best farming lands in the work are given to evory settler - any Amen can citizen being eh'giblc - at a cost o only about $20 in land-office fees, bu Gen. Banks proposes to offer still fur ther encouragement to homesteaders b; providing one year's Government ra tions to each family, a few farming uteusils, a horse, a cow and a pig, besides doing away with the fees which at present go to the office agonts. To meet the expense of the increased bonus to the settler, he proposes that 4 per cent, bonds be issued for that purpose.