Political Gossip

Coxgressman Mills, of Texas, believes that Hendricks is the choice of the Southern Demócrata for President. Mr. Alexander H. Stkphens is very well. Ho rarely miases a session of the House, and works haril ontside. Congressman Walker, of Virginia, having signified hia intention of ! ir)g at the close of his present term, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is mentioned as a probable canclidate for tho place. When the colored Senator from Mississippi, Mr. Bruce, was in Chicago not long ago he said to divers f riends thathe was of the firm conviction that he would be the last of his race to oocupy a seat in the United States Senate. So reporte the Journal of Chicago. Secbetaby Thompson is working very hard - even his ovenings are filled with nooupntiniis. He is amil to uhow the effect of overwork. He leeturcd entertainingly on Adams, Jackson and Clay the other evening in Washington. He spoke admiringly of the three strong Americaas. All rumors of a Cabinet reorganization are set at rest by the familiar assurance that the prodigious amount of harmony existing in tho President' counoil is suoh that neither death nor resignation can hope to enter there. The numerous candidatos who harl begun to put themselves in training íor a position may as wel], therefore, go a-fishing for a season. Mr. GaiPin, late chief clerk of the j Indian Bureau, in his letter published in the New York Tribune, says the charges against hiin liad betn some two months in preparation before they were presented to Secretary Schurz, and "were formulated by a combination of swindling Indian delegates and claim agents, of clerks discharged by Secretary Schurz himself for inefficiency, and of professional brokers." Senator Voorhees is graphically I scribed as giving, at first sight, the imprcBsion of a man having "a large amount of forehead, a larger amount of ; hair, and a long f rock coat." His hair is very luxuriaut, is worn rather long, and always combed straight back away from the forehead. Added to the ahape j of the head, which is larger than the average and largest on top, it gives an appearanco of top-heaviness, which is increased rather than diminishcd by the long but narrow beard and drooping musfoche. The color is a compromise between red and brown. Sotitliern Koutc to Liverpool. The Illinois Central Eailroad Company is about to esfeiblish a new and rival route to Liverpool, by running in ' nection with a lino of Liverpool j ers from New Orleans, which will cnablo the company to take freight and passengers at as low ratos, even in the winter season, as tho Eastern railway lines do in the season of lake navigation, when they are running at their lowest figures. Since tho close of the war, it bas only been a question of time when this event won] ei occur, and the Central has been steadily working for this object by getting control gradually of the Southern roads between Cairo and New Orleans. Having acconipliehed this, the next step was to obtaiu control of a line of ocean steamers, by which freight and i passengers could bo cheaply landed in Liverpool. All this having been nearly ; achieved, the company will soon, i haps, be ready to transport freight or I passengers from the great Northwest, and the South, via New Orleans, to Liverpool at all seasons of the year, at rates ; sufficiently low to induce shippers to invt'st. This will prove a great advantnge to the country and the public, and j break up the ring monopoly that ha heretoforo been controlled by the ' derbilts and Scotts. It will also give to j the Central company a vast amount of ' through business over its extensive lines that cannot but provo liighly 1 tive, and place its stock on a par with j the beat-p.aying roads in tho country. Tho result of this ia, the great Eafitern transportation liues are greatly alarmiiil, and begin to f eel that they can no longer dictate terms to the Western sbippers during the time that navigatiou isclosed. Another important advantage growing out of this new arrangement is, it will have a tendency to break up the infernal monopoly that has so long existed in Chicago among the cattle and grain operators. Heretofore the cattle shippers of the West, unless they went in person with their stock from Chicago to j the East, have been charged with the '■ commissions of two or three sets of , middle-men at intermedíate points, which the Chicago operators will hereoftcr have to out oiï. The grain dealers tbere llave alüo charged considerably more for ! ghïinkage iu grain tliau tUere wtis in ! roaiijy, whioh OW be oaüed by QQ better I name than stealing. This, too, will be stopped, or the grain will all go South that is iutended for the ioreign market. From all whicli we cannot but feel that a great advantage is to accrue to the West by reason of this new Central Bohème. It is true that the distance froin New Orleans to Liverpool, around the península of Florida, is considerably greater thnn from New York, Boston, Philudelphia nnd Baltimore, but a steady business for a few Tenséis at competing rates will enable the New Orleans shippiug lines to make as much memey as the more northern lines with much less to do. In any event, there is no doubt that between the Central Company, with its loDg linea of transportaron, and the New Orleans steamship lines, they will be able to make such reductions on their usual rates as to compete successfully with any of the Eastern. lines. -