"ferry, Of Michigan," Says The New

York Suu, "will drop out of sight on the 4th of next montb," and gives him this partingshot: "Asa senator, Mr. Ferry has been illustrious neither for wisdom nor for eloquence. His vote has oounted one for the party and that is all that can be said of him. During the memorable weeks of the electoral dispute he sat behind tha presideni's cfesk in tha senate chambör, and no scheme of force or fraud proposed at any time, by the conspirators acting in Hayes's interest, was so wild that Ferry's compliance and co-operation coula not De counteu on as a matter of course." Undeb the caption of "Michigan's Shame," the Grand Rapids Leader's Lansing correspondent says : " The tmblushing admissions of jobbery and corruption made by Kepublioans before the investigating committee is exciting about as much interest as the senatorial deadlock, which is becoming tame and monotonous. It is a disgusting spectacle to see men, who have long held places of trust and supposed honor ; men who, through their titled positions have been looked upon as representative men of a great State, stand up and relate their shameless disregard and unworthiness of the confidence of the people. With the blandest effrontery they teil of their trame in offices, caucus packing and other disreputable work, which is generally supposed to belong only to the professional ward striker. One who has a partiële of manhood left in his nature can not listen to these brazen admissions of villainy without turning away with a feeling of shame that he lives in a country the reina of government of which are in the hands of such men." _ im i ■ m The New York Sun, referring to the Ohio fioods, reads a lesson that might be heeded with profit by the farmers of Michigan and every other State in the union. The Sun attributes the great disaster to the destruction of the forests on the hills of Western New York, Western Pennsylvania and Western Virginia, whence the head waters of the Ohio are fed. That vast extent of country has been praclically denuded of its trees and the consequence is that the heavy snows of the winter, lying unprotected under the aotion of the sun and the rains of this season, instead of being very i ii . . _ il _ i __. j_i_ 1 .3 l_ i ■ ■ graauany meueu, as mey wouiu uavc been had the foresta been left standing, are melted all at once, and rush down into the valley of the Ohio in an overwhelming mass. The Sun prophecies that thia mighty and destructive flood of the early spring will probably be folfowed, during the heat of summer, by a corresponding drouth and scarcity of water, under the effecta of which the Chio will becorae a shallow, sluggish atream, of very little use for purposes of navigation or any other purpoae. The importance of preserving a portion at least of our forests as a safe guard againat disasters of this kind can not be over eatimated, and it ia to be hoped that the leaders of public opinión in Michigan will use their best endeavors to this end. - As the Irish disclosures go on, the English people find traces which lead to the United States, and involve American Iriahmen, or refugees, in the Phoenix Park murders. The legal iuqniry which at first aeemed a farce and an effort to find victims to be sacrificed to the cause of abstract justice, has turned out to be a terrible reality, with truth and justice on the aide of the government, and the liability of the cowardly assassina in no way diminiahed by the criminal responsibility of the English people and the government for the uuhappy condition of Ireland. England's responsibility for her terrible misgovernment is one thing; the crime of those who have almost irretreviably injured the cause of Ireland reste upon its own merite. Almost for the first time the bold and generous, if improvident, Irish people have been accused of the cowardly crime of assassination and the accusation proved beyond a doubt. It is still, it is trae, the act of a few; but ualess it is thoroughly reprobated it will rest upon Ireland and shadow her just cause. The Irish people are not assassins. Assassination is not an Irish fault ; but there is the deed resting upon them, and now far too closely connecting itself with America. Too man y, lacking courage and patiënt at home, have bied the Irish-Americans in the name of Ireland, devoting largely of the proceeds to luxurious living, and something to the cause of agitation and murder, such open assassin as O'Donovan Rossa, who publicly boasts of measures for the destruction of English shipping and of innocent men and women. From all these the sooner Ireland cnts herself loose, and the sooner the Irish peopla of America hold themselves aloof, the better for the cause of Ireland. Every true Irishman, who is also a Irae man, now that their guilt has been shown, must rejoice that the murderers of Lord Cavendish and Burke have been exposed and brought to punishment. Whatever the woes of Ireland and the responsibility of England therefor, humanity everywhere has but one opinión and one sentiment as to this crime, and it behooves all Irishmen, while relaxing so proper e'ffort in behalf of that local home rule which is the only salvation for Ireland, to make that sentiment their own, to put a stop to the concoction of murder in America and the execution of the criminal design in Ireland, and to the raising of funds for promoting assassination and the maintenance of the O'Donovan Bossas to agítate and incite to murder. Ireland's cause ia just and holy, and it will not be furthered by unholy means.