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But it is not my intention, at present, to en- Ter on the merits of the controversy. pro- reed to remark. that voted for the reSOlu- lions bv which inc committee is sinstructed on | what principles to seek redress by memorial to Congress. Those resolutions did rot ex- | press the opinion of the Convention on the of the tariff laws. Many ot the capitalists, who have made large invest | ments in cotton and wOOllen estabishments, and other branches sustained by extravagant taxation, had no agency io procuring the en- actment of those laws, hut, accOmmooa!'ng their business to the existing system, have adventured ,,pon the encouragement it affords, and by great and sudden change would be involved in loss, if not in ruin. A return to just system should not be so accelerated as to do injustice to those who have placed con Rdence in this. A long and gradual reduction of duties. in such manner as to cause no con- vulsiou, is all that the resolutions contemplate. More moderation should be observed Oy the government in relieving the people from these burdens than was practised by imposing lhem. This relief will be obtained; ifnOt at the next session of Congress, most certainly at no very r.n,ote neriod' A few thousand manufactur- CTS cannot for their own em"lumcnt. subject

 millions of their cOnntrymen to an oppressive and perpetual contribution. Tue siren songs

 of ." The American System" and D"mes''c

 Industry. ."--whch, as here apPhe0'. are

 sounds without sense.-have been sung anu

 echoed from one extremity of our country to

 the other, but cannot long entrance an '"'e"-

 gent people,. ...: L..

 vond my intended limits. My primary ob-

 feet was to correct the misapprehenslon "t

 my opinions which has appeared in several

 newspapers. Many of my friends both those

 who are engaged in manufactures and those

 who are not, have known my sentiments on the protecting system from a period much earlier than the tariff of 1916. All branches of useful and honest industry ought to be en- conr.oed hut one should not be made trbu- fary to another. Each should be permitted to reta;n the entire amount Ofits OwR emOu- noonts. ROGER M. SHERMAN.

 Oct. 28, 1881.

 Tn the Court of Sessions. on Wednesday last, young fellow, who had been acq"'t'eo of minor offence on the previous day. pre- sented himself to one of the officers w'tn loaf of bread, which he desired might pc

 handed to friend or coadjutor of nls' Wno

 was in the prisoners cage. The loa! seeming

 an unusually heavy one for its slze' eAc'.eu

 suspicion. and finally underwent the scF"':ny

 of the Recorder; when it was found' on oe.ns

 h, oken open, to contain square black DoItIe'

 holding about pint and half of liquor. On

 tasting tho fluid. the High Constable at once

 pronounced it very fair Cognac. The cu'- nrit. who was thus caught fdgrante det'cto, under the very nose ofthe Court. was brought up for immediate punishment. He begged igs' tily for mercy, but justice was 'nexorao'e' and he was sentenced to pass the next SIX months of his life within the gloomy precincts of inc Penitentiary, unsolaced by the pros peet of quaffing there his accustomed pota- tions of his favOrite beverage.-N' f' ~6@' : An accident of peculiarly distressing character occurred at WoimbweIfs men"seHe' exhibiting at the fair on "Wednesday morning A man who was employed m c!ean'ps 'ne cage in which the lion Wallace ls connneo; patted him on the heao several times. which the animal. appeared 10 'aAs ln good part, and in turn licked the hano tnat ca ressed him. At length the lion suddenly caught thr mans arm in his teeth, and in his to withdraw it. the flesh and mus cles were dreadfully lacerated; ana ere ne could extricate it the animal actually O't on and swallo wed the unfortunate keeprr's mana 1a was immediately taken to the 'nhrmary' " here it was found necessary to amPtuate ms ,rm. which was skiIfully pertormsd oy Mr' Daniel. and it is hoped the mans life Will oe aved.-Bufalo Jour.

 We have seen an extract of a letter from Major Dougherty. agent to the Pawnses: to lis brother, which says, that the Small Fox las been committing dreadful ravages among he Pawnee Indians. Nearly the whole of ,ne tribe, the Pawnee Republic, of about s. 100 souls. have been swept Of-the number lying daily being SO great that they had not ,een able to bury them. The cause of the lisease being SO fatal among them. IS. that hey immediately plunge into the water as oon as the fever makes its appearance-that Irving the disease inwardly. Scarcely an 'n' tance is known of recovery, when they are with this terrible malady.

 A Washington letter writer has made two as to the number ot members oi Congress, at the ratio of 48 and O,OOO-the present ratio is 10000. From these caicula- isnB it, appears, that at the ratio ot 4e'OOV' he number of members will be 28l. be'ng an increase of 20 over the present number. At ,O, 900, the number will be 27O, or an increase ,f nine.-N. Y. Gaz.

 From the St. Louis Times ef Oct. IS.

 4 NeU ROute.-AbOut week since, tne goods of one of our merchants, MT. A. L. Marsh.) which had been purchased 'n New- York. arrived in this city by the way ot Cnl- cagO. The goods were sent np the New- York Canal, thence by schO Oner to Chlca-