Cardinal Mccloskey Sailed From

New Tork on Saturday last, by the 1 iiiimn steamor City of New York, to attend the Conclave at Borne and aid in the eloction of the snooessot to Pope Pius IX. The. Couiruou Couneil of Detroit requested the oontrollor to half-mast the flag on the City Hall for three days, "as a token of respect to the memory of Pope Pïus IX : which carne near throwing the Post and l'n'Jmiu: into conniptioiii. Tukodore Eoosevelt, whoae recent uoiuinaticm by President Hayos to be Collector of the port of New York, was rejectod by the Senate, died on Sunday last. He was ono of tho most enterprising, public-apirited, and eharitablo oitizens of his native city. Judi;k Wiikelkk, ot' the Nineteonth Circuit, will rosign to accept the office of postmaster at Lndington, Ho says that bis resignation is caused by the "small salnry attaoheil to tho office." On the 1 lth inst., at the opening of the term in Manistee, ho was presented a gold wateh valued at $150. Giles B. Stebbixs, of Detroit, having arrived at Washington " to oppose Wood's Tariff bill " the frieuds of revenuo Toform may as well give up any hopo of getting it from tho present Congress. That distinguished sentimental essayist will be sure to üx thiugs. THAT greenback couventiou held at Jackson last week did a very discreet thing in einpowering the central committee to nomínate caudidates for Justice of the Supremo Court and Kegents of the University. Had nominatious been made by the convontion the candidates may havo bolted the party or died beforu the date of the election - April 7, 1879. Eepokt from Washington says that Hon, Wm. A. Howard, the Nestor of the Michigan llepublicans, has consonted to accept the position of Governor of Dakota. And that is the best that can be done for the man whose foresight and judgment aud skill wheeled the whole Michigan dclegation at Cincinnati into line just in time to secure the nomination of Hayes: certain evidence that places are not being given out as a reward for political services, - unless rondered at New ürloans or Florida or Charleston or beforo that Electoral Commission after tho people had elected Tilden. SIIEK.MAN, Matthews, Hale, Garfield & Co. have organized themselves into a supreme conrt and telegraphed to New ürleans a reversal of the decisión in the Anderson case, or as tho telegram has it : "Earnestly protesting his innocence of any frauds and denouncing the trial and eonviction as the exhibition of bitter sectional partisanship." Auother illustration of the rule ihat the beaten partios in a law suit can think andspeak evil of the court that differed from them, or of that trite proverb, "No rogue e'er feit the halter draw witta good opinión of the law." We have heard of just such cases nearor home. Dueixo the last year a largo number of crimináis have been convicted in the courts of this State, crimináis of all grades, shades, and cunditions: convicted, sentenced, and sent to prison. And we have yet to hear of raembers of the Cabiuet, of the Senate, and of the House, telegraphing to them letters of sympathy ; or of Cabinet meetings boiug held to discuss their grievances ; or of the President espousing their cause, and saying : "As grave constitutioual questions may be iuvolved, in which the General Government may have a right to interfere, the President submits the subject to the AttorneyGeneral for his consideration." Have violators of the law more rights in Louisiana than in Michigan i Or has the State of Louisiana less right than Michigan to deal with her crimináis f Which is it? The Post and Tribune is never so happy as when itcan get in a flrst class dig at the President. This spasm of ecstatic joy was caused by the report of Congressman Willits' recent interview with that dignitary : " We are again told that the President will not appoint any more Democrats to important offices, in places where competent and acceptable Republicana can be found for the positions. There have been Eepublican i'residents who had such confidonco in their own party that they did not require eleven months schooling and disciplino to enable thera to arrive at such a oonclusion." And this just after the sponsor or father of the Post and Tribune has had a sop thrown to him in the reappointment of that model civil service reformor "Judgo" Edmunds to bo postmaster at Washington. Unk iiid, wery ! The advocates of the unconditional remonetization of sil ver assert that that metal is at a discount siraply because of the "iniquitous act of 1873," and that remonetization will iu.mi;diately bring up the price of silver and mali eilver coin on a par with gold. Do these men suppo8o that an act of Cougross demonetizing gold would bring down the price of that metal in the great money centers and commercial maits of the world ? The effect of such a law of Congross would be juet about equivalent lo a resolution establishing tho prico of wheat or corn, or one declaring that a horse ia an ox. A law can fix the nominal valué of the coin, but the makers of that law must bo governtd by the actu&L or market value of the metal or they will legislate in vaia. In fact, the clamorers for " cheap mouoy " want silver romonetized because of the cheapness of the metal and not beeauso the silver dollar can be maintained at par with the gold dollar. It is " choap money " and the profit on it they want. It is QOOD money we favor: justas good money for the day laborer as for the bond-holder. TöUCHlNG the resignation of Judg Van Zile, of the Fifth Judicial Circuí and tho manner of filling the vacanc; a correspondent of the Post and Trihun, writiug from Marshall, says : "The District Judicial Committee had meeting at Battle Creek, and was divided i opinión, whetlter an election should be hek or not. The secretary of the committoe wa instructed to correspoud with the üoverno and ascertain his Exceüency's opinión abou the matter. The Governor, we are informec cousulted with several prominent attorney aud then informed the committee, that in h opinión an election tor Circuit Judgo coul not legal ly be held until the general electio in the fall." It can scarcely be possible that th Governor has taken the position assignec to him. Sec. 14 of Art. VI of the Con stitution saya of a vacaney in the oflic of circuit judge that " it shall bo fillei by appointment of the Governor, whic shall continue until a successor is eicel ed and qualified," and Seo. 37 of Art. V authorizes the Legislatura to doclar the manner of filling all vacancia "where no provisión is made for tha purpose in the Constitution." Nothin in the Constitution requiros a cirnui judge to fill a vacaney to be elected a "the general fall election." Now the Legislatura has "declared or provided as follows : "Special elections may be held in the fo lowin cases, aud for the electiou oï the fo lowinR officers, viz : 1. When a vacaney shall occur in the oflic of Sonator or Iteprosentative in the Stat Legislatura, Representativo in Cougress, Judp; of the circuit or district court," etc - Sec. J! Compiled l.aws of 1871. " Xo special uloction shall be held witlii thr months ntixt pieceding a general elec tion, exoept in cases wbere tho Oovornor ahal order a spocial electiou." Sec. 36, Compile Laws. Here is certainly authority for hold ing a special election for a circuit judg and no prohibition against Governo Croswell ordering such special election to be held at any time and on any daj he pleases. Nor can section 41 of th Compiled Laws, aa amended by Act No 24 of the sossiou laws of 1875, bo po9sibly construed to impose any restiiction upon the power or discretion cf the Governor. It siinply inakes it the duty of the Secretary of State to give notice of a filing of a vacaney in this and certain other offices at the " next general election " in case the Goveruor has not filled the vacaney by appointment or neglects to order a special eloction. That and notlnng more. The day of the April election is ceitainly a fitting day and time, and by no possible reasoning or sophistry even can it be held that the day of the "general fall election " eau alone be selected. If it is desired that the Governor appoint a successor to Judge Van Zile instead of permitting tho peoplo to elect him some better reason should be assigned than the one we have quoted. It is entirely too transparent. At A RECEXT Farmers' Instituto held at Mason, Hon. E. E. Trowbridge discussed the tariff and its proposed trvision. He is reported as saying : "A tariff is a tax on foreign productions and foreigners have no right to complain." A tariff muy or may not be a tax on foreign productions, - that is, it may be so skillfully adjuHted as to excludo foreign produotions entirely umi enablo the American producer to levy a tax. not to support the Government but for his own benefit, on the American consumor. And that is the aim and end of a protective tariff, while a revenue tariff - the only tariff Congress has a constitutional or moral right to levy - is naturally placed upon articles - raanufactured fabrics or produots of the soil - which will and must be imported, and the tax or tariff for irnporting which will go into the vaults of the custom-house, instead of merely operating to keep out importations iu the interest of the home producer. The great masa of consumers would have their eyes opened should Congress directly and openly tax theni for the benefit of iron, copper, steel, woöl or any other interest, and appropriato the proceeds of the tax directly froin the treasury for the aid and benefit of those other buainesses. And they should open their eyes to the methods in which they are secretly being bied for the sole benefit of various manufacturing and producing classes under the slim pretext of supporting the Goverument. WlïEN Secretary Sherman, speaking of the trial and convicción of Iteturning-Board Anderson, said, - " The proceeding agaiost hini is called au ' information,' and is expressly prohibited in cases of felony by the Constitution of the United States, and most of tho States, but is providod for by the law of Louisiana," did he mean to intímate that the proceeding by " iuformation' was an unconstitutional and illegitimate one 'i If not, what pertinence was there in the remark V In Michigan, for nearly twenty years, felons of nearly all grades, including murderers, have boen proceeded against by " information," and in all that time not a grand jury has been drawn or an indictment found. Have the Michigan courts and Michigan judges been continually violating the Constitution 'i Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti_ bom May 13, 1792, ordained deacon and priest iu 1818, appointed Archbishop of Spoleto in 1827 and Arch bishop of Iniola in 1830, in 1840 ap pointed Cardinal, 'and in 1846 (June 1(5) elected Pope, died on February 7, full of years and honors. The lifo of Pius IX bas been a long and eventful one and the years of his service as the head of the great Catholic Church outnumbered those of any predecessor. His death, though not unexpected, brought grief to his spiritual children throughout the world, and the words of love and praise aro generally spoken in nonCatholic circles. ■ ■ -- ■ TlIE PoH and Tribune of Wedneaday had a briof editorial paragraph which we interpret iu this wiso : Hon. W m. A. Howard professed to favor the appointment of Hon. Henry W. Lord as Governor of Dakota, but being unablo to secure his friond tho coveted place considerately but with " great reluctancy" accepted it himself. There are souie accountable crooks in politics. The debato on the silvor bilí has been continued in the Sonate during tbe week, but it is understood that a vote will be taken today. About twenty amendments to the House bilí aro ponding. TlIE venerable Gideou Wollos, of Connecticut, Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, died on Monday night, agod 'o years the first dny of July last. Since his retiroinont frum office thu ex-Sucretary has proved himself a vigoroua magazine writor, and his oontributions to the Oalaxy have invariably made the fur fly in cortain politioal and official circles. A Washington "special" to the Free Press saya that Senator Christiancy did not expect his letter to Regent Rynd to bo givou to the public ; nlso that " he soca no reason now, nor has seon any reoson heretofore, why Koae should be releasod from the deoree of the court as pronounced by Judgo Huntington." Which leads us to reioark that Judge Christiancy should bo careful who he writes private letters to; and also to ask it' he is not "carrying water on both shoulders?"