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farce is that the government counsel ar in a happier state of mimi over the ver diet tlaan are the acquitted tliieves. Thi is doubtlesa owmg to the fact that tb former have made money out of the tria and the latter lost. The country mus console iteeU with the feot that the thieves have been foreed to diHrOrge their stealings to keep clear of the peni tentiary. The tax pa er who would pre serve his peace of miad wil] not take the "extras" into cousideration. Kedücing the rate of the tobáceo tax does not lessen the labor of watching eollecting, and accounting. The abolition of the stamp tax on matches,bank cheoks and proprietary medicines, makes but a tnrling differenee in the amount of the labor in each collecting district. The proposal to abolish thirty revenue districta by consolidation is a plain recognition that the number of collectors has been unnecessarily large for as much as fifteen years. The aboiition of thirty districts now confesses that they were unnecessary during all these years. The signs that Arthur means to control the national convention are apparent to all that have eyes to sce with. He will have the southern delegates solid, which Grant had not in 1880. It is for this that he Iets Mahone use the Virginia offices as if they were his private pioperty. Hia appointment of the inexperienced Evans to the office of commissioner of internal revenue signified the organization of a Kentucky delegation for himself. Every appointment that he makes has this design in view. Republicans who think to get rid of Arthnr by the talk thathe is tiredof office willfind him astride of their necks. m ' -■ Captain Eads began the building of his snip railway at the Atlantic or gulf terminus the 20th of May. The New Orleans Times Democrat has photographs of the first work. The railway is to run from the guM terminus south to the Pacific terminus, 150 miles. The actual length of railway is, however, 100 miles, since two rivers, one at each end, are to be utilized, each for a short distance. The unreasoning and prejudiced enemies of Captain Eads will proceed to denounce it as a fraud. The wise will wait and see. There are some who have confidence in the genius and energy of the man who wi'l wait filled with a flrm faith.