Ex-gov. Bagley And Martin

son have been appointed by the President honorary cointnissioners to tho Paris Exposition. The Ohio Legislatuie orderad a national salute firod on Maroh -l, in honor of the iiissage of the Silver bill by Congres. hat a wtiste of powder. U.viiKi: In' Ekdminigtratlon of Wade lirtinptuu South Carolina real estáte has increase.l froiu tive to fifteen por cent iq valuu, Better tliat than the Silvor liill or greenback intlation. POPK LEO XIII wus tdwihhI in the Sistino Chapel on Sunday lust, - the ceromoaies lastinj; froui9:30 . iu. to 1:30 p. m., und buing witnessod by uaidinals, prelates, diplotnatista aooredited to the Vivtican, and a few other persona. Judqinq by the number of speeches published in tho Congressional Record s haviug been mado ín tho House February 21, Joshua, or aouie other dignitary in iraitation of tlint oíd woitliy, niust have coinnianded tho suu to stand still and forgot to sot it running again until after many weary, weary honra liad multiplied into days. Certuiu it is that so many speeohos could not have been luade in one regular Bession. Tsn't this the baldest kind of' inflation 'i [SlIAUP practice : getting Judge Van Zilfi to write his roaignatiou to take effect April 1, and thus prevent Gov. Croswell ordering an election tor that day to flll tho vacancy, and throw upon him the responsibility of appoiuting or tho altornative of a costly special election. We say sharp practico, for it cannot be possiblo that Gov. Crowell has not discovered his right to order a judicial election for a dato other than the general November election. On Monday of last week President Hayes returnod the Silvor bill to the House with his veto. As sooii as tho veto message could bo hurriedly road - not listened to - the House passed the bill over tho veto by a vote of 1% to 73. The Senate, in faco of all precedent, mado the sanie disposition of the bill by a vote of 4G to 19. The " dollar of the daddies" is now a legal tonder, and Iota of poor fellowa who foreBaw riches in such a result are daily looking for kegs of "bright uns " fresh from the mint. Bluff oíd Ben Wade, tho ouce Republican war-horse of the Western Reserve, the man whose buglo notes - though not very ruelodious - wero worth ten thousand men to the causo he espoused, died at his home in Joft'erson, Ohio, on Saturday Ia9t, at 6 o'clock a. m., aged 77 yoars the 27th day of üctober last. Mr. Wade served three terms in the United States Senate, aud at one time tho conviction of Androw Johnson by impüachment alono stood botween him and tho White House, - which great calamity, however, the nation was providentially spared. Mr. Wade voted for Hayes - somewhat against his better judgment - in the Ciuciunati Convention, but has been known as a vigorous denounoer of his Southern policy. We UAVE been highly gratiiied to discover that nearly the entire press of Michigan, without distinction of party, is now committed to the wholesomo and honest doctrine of free trade and against a protective or prohibitory tariff. Our evidence is the numerous petitions presentod to the House during tho last week or so, in favor of abolishing the duty on type, or at least against the rates prescribed by the Wood Tariff bill, 15 and 30 cents a pound. It cannot be that these fellow publishers are so selfish that they would slaughter tho type founders in their own interest, while favoring protection as a principie or advocating protoction to other manufacturers. Therefore, thoro must havo been radical as woll as a sudden conversión of many of our cotemporaries. We have carefully read the argument made by Joseph U. Crawford, agent for Southern California, bofore the House Committee on Paoiiic Railroads," in favor of granting such Congressional aid to and encouragement of as shall assure the speedy construction and complotion of the Texas Pacific Railway, undcr such re8trictions as shall forever coinpel it to be and remain an independont, coinpoting line from the Mississippi River to the Southern Pacific seaboard, at Shipa' Channel, in tho harbor of San Diego." Mr. Crawford inakes a strong showing in favor of aid, und the mauner in which ho portrays the ovils inflicted upon Southern California by that grasping and griuding monopoly tho Contral Pacific, is almost sutticient to moie tho heart of an anti-subsidy man to coinpassion. Mr. Crawford provcs himself a thoroughly intelligent as well as enthusiastic advocate of tho cause he has ospoused. At LEAST one honest member of tho House voted to pass tho Silver bill over the veto of the President, or putting it in a more truthful way, at least ono member was honest and guileless enough to teil his constituent8 and the world - provided they read the dreary pages of the Congressional Record - why he so voted. That member is Mr. Bell, of Georgia, who deliberately has himself printed (he roally niado no speech) as snying : " This bill makes $1,800,000,000 of the public debt that was payable by law bt-fore its passage in gold, now payablo in silvor worth, according to the statement ot tho Executive, 10 cents in the dollar less than gold, thus saving $180,000,000 to tho poople by reducing tho dobts to that extent." $700,000000 is the amount the same innocent Mr. Bell estimates that tho public and private debts of the country will be scaled by liquidatiug theiu in cheap silver. Could not more havo been made by declaring a 5 cent nickel a dollar, and at that valuation a legal tender for all debta public and private? The honesty would be the same in ono case as the other : the fraud would differ only in proportions. mpymmmmm mmmiumm gpp-w p- - pw- -- - Twentv mombors of tho Houso wcro fully couvinced that the country would bo financially ruinod and tbo natiou's fair faine forever sullied, if the few soldiers of tho war of 1812 aud tho Mexican war who sympathizod witli or aided tho robolliou shall be placed on the peusion rolls, and so they voted no. Five of these poor, timid, frightened patriots were Michigan uiembers : Messrs. Brewer, Keightley, McGownn, Stone, and Willits. Their colUiaguo3, Messrs. Conger, EUsworth, Hubbell, und Williams, voted no. WhEN " Sunset " Cox wanted a f'iicnd appointed to office ho inscribed his letter " To the Hon. E. B. Hayos, President tJuited States;" but not haviug boen takeu into the confidonco and counsels of the President he now brands him " a fraud." And just bocausa he vetood the Silver bill. Scbipps, of the Detroit Evening JS'ews, has como off victor in tho Foster-Scripps libel suit, - Judge Cochrano holding that the publications complained of Were not libelous. Dr. Foster proposes to appoal. Botter not. The prisoners at Jnckson aro now workud 11 hours daily. What's tho uso of tho civil rights or eight hour lugislalion of Congress ? The tonth annual comnien'ceinent of the Detroit Medical College came off on Tuesday eveniug. Twenty students wero graduated.