Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 5, 1873, Page 4

TH CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU FRIDAY, SEP: IBER 5, 1873, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. % lw‘v.n‘sln OF AUNRORIPTION (PATABLE IN nwmsm. ally, by i, §12.001 Bunday, B! PNoubdyalt:: SUEH0] Weslay 00 Parts of a yoar at tho sanio rato. T provout dolay and mistakos, bo sure and kiva Post Ofico addresn In tull, Inludiug Btato and Cawnty, Roittancos may bo mado oithor by draft, expross, Post Offico ordor, or in rogistered lettore, at oue thake TERMA TO OITY BUDACRINELS. Datls, dolivored, . Sunday oxcontod, S cante por wook, Datly, dolivorod, Sunday included, 8 conta por woak, Addross THI TRIDUNE COMPANY, Coruer Madison and Dearborn-ats., Chfcago, 1il. e TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OT MUSIO—Iatsted andMonros, Rugagomont ol ** Monoy." , bolwoon Madslon Tawranwy Barrott, MOVIOKER'S THRATRE. born lnud Stato. "”lnh‘mfl fadlson, Lotweon Dear troot, botween Aad- GLOBE THEATRE~Desplatuos lsoh ‘and Washington, ** Aladdin. HODLEY'S THEATRE-—Randol stract, botweon Clark and Ladallo, ** Lilifan's Laot Love." MYERS' OPPRA-HOUSE—Monroo stroat, betwoon Detrbory sud Stato, Arlington, Uotton &' Kombla'a nstrels. BUSINESS NOTICES. ELOR'S BATR DYE, THIS SPLENDID hflufig?}x‘u st bk world: Thoonly trw and por fect dye. and {nstantancous; nodisap- pointmonti o rldiculons 1nts or wnplenssat, e, Tama- ho {1 ts of bad dycs and washes, Teaintely s moct hinek o mbugalirout, and losecs e 5 eotty and boxuitul: onino, < Gt glean folt SLGODy Mli droasisis, OHATLES G 1.01t, Proyriotor, N. Yo EMIVINSON SRID; Agont The Chicage Tibune, Fridey Morning, Septomber 5, 1873. VAN §CHAACK, Butlor ia bohind Washburn, 8o far a8 shown by = proliminary canvass of the coming Republican Convention. 'Tho "delogates now stand: for Washburn, 210 ; for Butlor, 205; doubtful, 10. e Tho number of beggar children of Now York City who were givon a breath of puro country sir by thoe plenics conducted by the Now York Tiems, during tho summor just closod, was 20,093, e A conferonco of tho Anti-Polygamous Mor- taons i now meoting at Council Blufls, fowa. “Tho ‘conforouce is presided over by Josoph Bmith, son of tho first Mormon, and is attonded by & largo number of his sect. e County Convontions woro held yoatorday by tho farmers of LoSallo and Tazowsll Countics iu this Btato, A full ticket was nominated by tho former meoting and a dafo fixed by tho Intler for the nomination of officers. Nows has beon had from the Juniata oxpodi- tion in senrch of the Polaris, On tlho 10thof July, Commander Draino was ot Holstoinborg, Groonland. Mo sailed thonco to Disco, and will go from thero to Uppor Navik. Up to the 10tk of July nothing Lad been lieard ot Disco of tho Polaris or Lier ero Col. John 'I, arper, Collector of Internal Rovenuo for the Eighth District of this State, has rosigned his position, leaving tho accounty of his office at Bpringflold about $100,000 short. No more precise information can be gained at presont, 88 tho Deputy Collector has earried all tho papors nnd accounts of the offico to Wash- ington, snd tho unfortunato ex-Colleotor koops himself out of sight.. The Government is not likely to loso suything by tho -defdlcation, ag Col. Harper's bondsmen are good: oS ) To-day Franco pays Germany the last franc of the war indemuity. SBome popular celobration of this rolenso would bo natural cnougl tosode- monstrative o pooplo as France, but the Goveru- mont bas sternly prohibitod any such outbroak. Yosterdsy was tho anniversary of tho establish- mont of the Republie, but its colobration was forbidden in France. Tho citizens of L&mia“mu, Ky., honored the ovent by adopting rosolutions commondatory of Presdent Thicrs' sdministra- tion, which will be forwarded fo him, Tl farcical invostigation of the Canada Pa- cific Railway seandsl by tho Royal Commission Dbegan yesterday, Mr. Huutington, who prefor- red the charges againet the Government, was solemnly called upon to apponr und tostify, al- though it was well known that ho waa not, and did not mesn to be, prosent. In iho sbgonce of his testimony, . and that of tho Opposition generally, the whole pro- coeding will be so one-sided 88 to deserve no public attention. Bir Francis Hincks doposed yooterday that thore was neyor any agreomont between the Government and Sir Hugh Allan or his frionds by which the lattor were to contrib- ato to the election fand in considoration of ro- ceiving & chartor. MoMullen's statements on this point, e said, wors pure abrication. —— The Committes of Three appointed by the State Board of Equalization to investigato the eceming discropancy betweon tho assessmont ro- twume of Cook County for 1872 and 1878 met in this city yosterday, Ono cause of tho differonco fa the roturns of ncres and Jots was explained by the officers of tho Revenue Department of Cook County to be the accidental omission of some town roturne which had been given to sccountants to be addod up. The State Bosrd can easily rectify theso omissions. Anotber causo of the apparcnt discrepanoy was, that, sinee tho asscesment of 1812, a large num- ber of acres had beon out up into lots, and of courso disnppeared from tho roturns. With re- gard to the corporations of tho county, the Com- mittoo found that o large number of thoso on tho Secrotary of Btate's books wers not in oxist- ence. The officers of some of the gennine com- pauien wilt bo oxamined to-duy. ‘Tha Auti-Monopoly parly in San Francisco bas plected two Benators and twelve Representa- tiven to tho Legislature. The Republican and Doemocratic partics nominatoed their tickets, and, s usual, both were controlied by the all-powor- ful railrond corporations. Whoreupon the poo- plo organized & now parly, nominated thelr own candidates, making the following declaration: ‘Thie political eventa of the Iast month havo estab- 1ixhed the foct to tho patisfaction of all eltizens pot in the interest o under tho control of {he railroads, that #ho incorporated enemica of the peoplo havo ohtalnod complole possesafon of tus organization of both tho @obtsedd partics in this cily, ond that if an ipdopendent alckel f3 not nominated citizens will ho obliged €0 yoto Sor tho gastinans of tho corruptiontaty, o bo disfran- clised, Ja view of this obvlous condition of sffoirs, a grent number of tax-payors and ludopondont yoters inve turned o o People's Unlon for rollef, and yr- wontly roquest ns to azlset from the groat body of the 00plc, ragnedlosn of parly aMiiations, a st of names 10 bo vatad for st {bo coming ploction oy ropresenta- #ives of the Jwwple. T'ho candldetes all plodged thomaelyen that, it slocted, thoy would act indepondently, snd would ‘‘not bo bound bgany sotlon of auy.po- Jitioal caucus,” A like indopondont orgamiza- tion hos been hed in many countios of the Bialo, and, with this succoss in Han Franolsco, 16 is moro than probable that thore will bo & ma: Jority in the Loglslature opponed to the rallroads and all othor monopolios. Tho Chieago produce marketa woroe gonorally moro notive yosterday, and breadslula woro strongor. Mess pork was in good domand, rud stondy at $16.85@16.90 cash, and $16.00@16.25 Lrollor Ootober, Lard wns moro activo and stendy at 73go por b for wintef, and 7H@73{0 for summor rondored, Moats wore dull aud un- changed ot 78{@7J¢o for shoullors, 8}5@0c for- short xibe, 0@93¢o for short oloar, and 04@ 1130 for sweot piokled hams, Iighwines were actlve and Go lowor, closing at 94}¢@05o por gallon, Lako froights woro active and stoady av 14¢ for wheat to Buffalo, Flour.was in better domand and firm. Whont wao activo and ad- vancod 2@S}ge, closing ot §1.18 cash, $1.16%¢ mollor tho month, and §1.14}( scller Octobor. Corn was less nctive and }{@Jge highor, closing at 41370 cash, nnd 42){c sollor Ootobor. Oats woro quiet and 3{o highor, closing at 28%(c casl, and 2834e soller Oclobor. Ryo was quict and 3¢o highor, at 680, DBarloy waa mora activo and 5@10c lower, closing nt $1.25 for No. 2, and 800 for No. 8. Hoga wore stoady.- Thero was a good demand at 84.35@4.85. Theo cattlo market was quiot and unchanged. Sheop wero steady at 23,00@4.60. TAXING CORPORATIONS, Ono of tho many grievances which aro pro- sented tothe State Board of Equalization lg, that the tnx-list of corporats property in this city is not large onongh to pay tho wholo expenso of tho Btato Govornment, besides paying the rall- road-nid dobts of other cities, towns, and coun- tics.. Wo bave already illustrated the mode by which doublo taxation is resorted tosand now stato anothor instanco, The rovenue law of tho .Btato of Iliinois is, perbape, tho moat abominn- "ble statute that was ovor cnacted in any civil- izod govornment. In sctual longth, it excecds tho entire roveuuo lawe of the United Statos, both tariff and internal. In dotail.it rominds ono of the machinery of the Inquisition, with its quostions and thumb-sorews, Founded on tho idon that the possossion of moncy and its investment in bonds, notes, or other socuritienis a crime, tolerated by society but novertheless a groat ovil to be punished, the law procceds to bunt it down, and to confiscato s much of it a8 is possiblo under the form of taxation. If a man purchaso & Lorse for £100 and gives his noto therofor, tho law requires that both tho horso and the noto bo taxed, under tho theory that by giving tho note the property had boon in- croasod from one hundred to two hundreddollars. The point sought.is to reach tho *bloated cap- italists™ who hold seenritios, Tho samé thing ia dono in the cago of mortgages,—tho mortgage ns well as tho property mortgaged is taxed upon the assumption that both are *‘property,” and not that one is o moro ovidenco of o claim on tho thing mortgaged. The wisdom of tho Btato of Illinoig refused to seo any double taxation in all this. The preseut difi- culty is with respect to corporations which lavo omitted or rofused to ropors their proporty for taxation in moro than one form, ‘Tho exnct controversy may bo best illustrated: A and B, of Chicago, have invested $100,000 cash in o manufacturing busiiess, sud have put their capital in tho form of real estato, build- ings, machinery, tools, and materisls, Tho Asscegor has listed all their renl and personal property, liko that of all other individuals, at 45,000, and Movsrs, A and B aro toxed on that amount, and the law is complied with. But O, D, E, T, and G, for tho bottor convemence of doing business whore tho respectivo shares aro unequal, form themeelyes into & company under the goneral Jaw to carry on the samo bueiness, with tho snmp capital as Messrs, A and B, Thoy invest their money in real ocstato, maohin- ery, buildings, and tools, Thoy make tho same snuual profit that Meesra, A aud B do,—25 per cent. Their capital is ropresented by stock, which, at that rate of profl., will bo worth $150 por share of 8100, The revonuo law of tho Stata taxes this corporation on ita capital stock of 100,000, and also on tho promium value of the Atock, £50,000, and, deducting the roturned value of tho tangiblo property of $45,000, domands of them taxes on the romainder of $105,000. Across thestrost, tha othor firm, whoso property, busi- noss, and profits aro precisoly the samo, sro taxed only £45,000. Theonly difference botween the two concerns is, one is & private firm of two or moro persons, and tho other & private corpo- zation of two or mord porsons, tho net of incor- poration giving to the lattor no rights or privi- loges not possessed by the other firm. The corporations of Chicago, in making their returna to the Assossors, l{nvu reported in ouo of two ways: 1, The amount of their capital stock at its parvalue; or, 2, pointed out to the Aescssor their real and perronal property, and.loft him Lo valuo it, a8 e values like property owmed by othor persons. The Assessora have roturned, in oll cases, tho value of tho real and por- monnl proporty, with such other roturns as the corporations have made to them, The fact s, tho law bas overreachod itself. In trying to tax capital two or three times, it lind hias failed, and now there s anuproar. The assesement for ook County has boon incroassd by the Assoss- ora from §94,642,219, out of an aggregato for the Stateof $508,876,848 iu 1872, to 144,145,605, out of a total of §1,166,120,684 in 1873, Thero are somo $14,000,000 of county, town, and city | dobts, contracted through tho Btate in aid of railroads; theso debts havo to be paid out of tho Btats taxos collected on the increass of tha as- sessmonts over that of the yoar 1868, Of coursio, tho grand point was to get such an Increase of sesossmont in Cook County as would enablo theas other countics to transfor the gront bulk of tho Btato tax lLoro, loaviug them to apply tholr sbaro of that tax to their local dobts, The whole nlm of tha increase of tho assespmont over that of 1872 was to catch Cook County. Tho machinery of tho Fovonuo low lins boen resorted to, but hins fafled. It iv pow demanded that tho Bonrd of Equali- zation ehal] arbitrarily assumo to tax tho prop- orty of all corporations In Chicago upon the ex- ooss of tho valuo of tholrstaok over its par value, and theroby incroase, 1t ip gesumed, tho assesemont for tlis county another hundrod miflions of dollars. Tho fnot is, that for ten youra the proporty in this city has beon nssessod for ftato purposss far in oxcess of tho propor- tiopato valuo of tho reut of thoe proporty In tho State, As soon o an inoresss In the acsoss- mont was mads, and & noarer approach mado to aotusl valuos, the share of this county in the aggrogato foll off, and uow conatornation pro- vaild among thoso whose taxqa hava boen paid by thia county go long. Tho Doard of Equalization have s plain duly Dboforo thom. That duty ia to return to tho ms- sessmont of 18723 add {o that & reasouabla par- centago of Incropso, fay Lwonty milllons of dol- lars apportioned on tho assosement of 1872, and thon adjourn. : It they ombark in the businoss of finding out tho praciss vatuo. of, flugtiating stocks, at n cortain hour on a certain: day many montlis ago, and attompt to tax tho ‘pboulative valuos of intanglble credits, they will have a job that will ocoupy thoir time for tho noxt yoar. ‘Flio wholo schemo of raising tho asgossmont s & job to raldo tho vnlua of rallrond-aid bonds, sud to.give Boards of Buporvisora tha power to create more debts, and ralee moromonoy by local taxation for current oxpgndllum FORWARD-PAY AND REPEAL OF TRE GRAB horo ia & provailing improssion thiat, oven if Oongrous slall ropesl tho: splary-grab, the mem- boryot tho prosent Congress, who are drawing thoir montbly pny of §626, cannot bo Tequired to rofund that portion of tho increased pay which shall have sceruod prior to tho timo that Congresa moots. T'his is an error. -AMombers of Cougress aro pald so muoh por year |‘ their com- _ponsation was 85,000 par yoar bofore tho recont increnso, and ‘is now $7,600. It tho next Cou- groas shall reduce Congrossional salarles to £5,000 8 year, the reduction will'apply to the Forty-third Congross which will then bo in sossfon. Tho draw- ing of $7,600 by any mombor of that Congress will thon.bo unlawfal, - Tho mombors of the Forty- socond ‘Cougress, which incronsed the pay, ap- pliod tho incronse to tho two yoars back of their rotiroment. A law: deorensing the pay nt the vory begioning of a now Congross cannot fail to apply to-the term for which membors aro to sorve. If it bo enid that the membors will al- roady have drawn thiree-quarters of thoir pay for the year, and cannot bo forced to ‘return i, this is morely & miscon- coption, Congrossmon are pald by tho year, ‘and drawing a cortain proportion of the money Dby tho month is -aimply & form of psymont, by which & cortain amount is charged ngainat them on their year's salary., Up to tho timo when Congress meots, ench member will have drawn £5,626. If tho compensation is pormitted to re- minin what 168 now, thore will still bo $1,875° owing to every Congressman on tho yoar's pay. If, however, tho compeusation is roduced to 5,000 o yoar, oach . Congrossman wil] havo overdrawn "his account when Con- greea moots by 8625, which must be deducted rom his psy for the next year, if ho docea not voluniatily return the surplus into tho Troasury. A Congressman will thon be in the condition of a bookkeeper, & banh-clerk, or any othor employo who bas ovordrawn' his account. The Goverumont would bave & good ground tor action to rocover the surplus, if this were neces- sary. Butasthe Congrossmen aro to sorve an- other yenr, the deduction can Dbe mado from future pay. 1f Congrossmon wero o class of . people who had - boen hard at work- for geveral months on & contract that thoy should recoive §625 por month, {his courso would appear unjust. BSuch s not tho caso. All the mombers of tho Forty-third . Congreia wero olected at a time whon tho. Con~ gressional pay was 5,000 o year; Bo far thoy have drawn their inonthly pay at ‘the rate of $7,600 a yoar without doing the publio any ser- yico ; and a reduction in tho pay of Congrossmon at the beginning of tho Forly-third Congross would naturally apply to the membera of tho Yorty-third Congress. Tho totsl smount of Congressional pny which will haye beon drawn out of the Trossury be- foro Congress couvenes is $2,150,000; tho amount of pay for tho yoar, ot tho prosont rato® would be nbout 2,800,000 thoro will, conge- quontly, beaboit §650,000balasioo in thoTrensury, which can bo held against overdrawn accounts, and tho sum duo the Governmont over apd ebovo this can bo deducted from the pay of the following year. If it wero necessary to extract tho oxcess of pay from Congressmon's pookots, it wowd undoubtedly bo bard pulling ; but it will readily bo scen that this process is entiroly unnecessary. CONGOREES AND THE 8TATE DEBTS, Tue Tosuse bas oxposed, on soveral oces~ slons, tho project likoly to be brought beforo tho noxt Congroess for a guarantep by tho National Qovernmont of tlio debts of the Southorn States, The effrontery of the proposition istypical of tho corrupt condition of Amorican politica at tho prosent timo, Had thoro becn no Oredit Mobi~ fior stonl, no Secor or Chorpenning claims, no land-grabs and steamship subsidies, no Fort Bnelling swindle, and no salary-grab, it is safo to say tbat no man in America, Witk anylhing in tho way of o reputation to loeo, would have dared to suggost 8o ouk- ragoouis o echomo, In tho prosont condition of things, tho suggostion is immodiatoly followed by activo co-operation in certsin quarters; & lobby is organized with monoy and influence to back 1t; the Eastern capitalists who are iutor- osted in the froudulent aud worthless bouds are roady to advanco itj tho Southorn papors openly advocateit; and rospeotable poople are possossed of the fesr that it will be carried out., All thig is a sorry comment on the provailing morality of our publio servico. It mosns that the Government 18 in the hands of mon whom we daro uot trust, The first montion of & job, #o infamous and gigantic that it ought to sink undor its own woight, domanas conatsnt watchfulness and vigerous protest. : This scheme for giving & national guarantee to tho depts of the Bouthorn Blatos, thatthey sholl bo paid within twenty yoars, is somothing more than & projected robbory of tho poople to tho amount of 200,000,000, with the interest thoreon, No sano man, familiar with tho bank- rupt and holpless condition of tho Southorn poople, doubts that o natlonal guarauteo of their Btate dobts _would . rxosult in tho final payment by tho General Govorn- mont, If tho dobts of tho Southern Btates ghall ba pald in this way, thore oro botter roa- gons why tho dobts of tho Northern Btates should be liquidated in tho samo manner. On tho one hond, there aro debts accumulated by political spooulators, reprasouting au amount of monoy of from 10 to 50 por cent only of tho faco of tho bonds, meurrod for tho beonofit of profossional plundorers and thieves, and largely congisting of bonds that aro fraudulontly iesued aud worthloss from the beglnning. On the ofhior hand, tho dobts of tho Northern Btatos soprosent monoy actuslly advaticed aud honestly hwnndad, incurred for tho developmout of tho bost [utorests in the varlovs Btatos and those of tho whole country; Jargely devoted, in some casoy, to tho paymont of exponses arlsing from tho proscoution of the war for tho presorvation of the Union. Ifthe Genoral Qovernmont ghall assume tho paymont of tho dobts of the Bouthorn Htatos, tho justico of & plmilar domsud on the part of the Northorn Statoa will bo readily recog- nizod. The precedent once ‘estabiluhiod, whero would tho practico end ? Tho dlract result would be to encourago fraudsin tho Northorn Statos liko thoso which hnve produced the enormous dobts of tho Houthern Hlates, Al the Iniquitien of tho - “oarpet-bAg * rulo nt the South would ‘ba ropeated at the North, Local, county, and muniolpal dobts would bo morgod into the Btato dobta for subsoquent pay- mout by the pooplo at large, This may secm fmprobable onough at the presont timo, butit in nothing elso than tho loglosl resulte of tho pronosod guarantoo, Thoro ia anotlior phass of the project, in ad- dition to tho objootions which have been pro- sontad horotoforo, that ought to attract tho nt- tontion of all classos interosted in tho honorable payment ‘ of - tho Publio” Dobt, ' Tho national guarantoo of tho Bouthérn Blatos' dobts would boa sitop In’ the dircction of mational repudi- ation. To fnorosse tho national indebtoduoss in | a fraudulont manner by the ‘addition of $200,- 000,000 of bonds, o largo proportion of which aro of fraudulont issuo, would be to diminish the senso of obligation ‘on tho port of .tho people to pay oft the Publio Debt. ' The whole of tho national Indebtodness’ would then bo tainted with fraud. Tho proposition mado by the Domocrats somoe yoars sinco, snd onoo sdvacated by Gon. Bitler, to pay off tho National Dabt in groonbacks, is patriotio and virtuous by ocomparison. It ia safo to say that United Btatoa bonds would depre- cinte 10 por cont the vory moment tho Govornment should give this proposed guar- sotoo, The sum of 200,000,000, with intor- est' on it for twonty years, could not bo added to tho PublicDobt in this manuor without sffect- ing public eonfidonco all over the world in American Government sccurities, Tho process of unloading would soon commeoncs overywhore, snd the doprociation that would redult would be | sufficiont to causo the most serions disturbanco in our financial- condition. A goneral losa of confidenco In securities and a orious depro- olation of their valuos, aro nlwaye in tho di- roction of ‘‘compromise” or- repudiation. The capitalists at tho East have becoma seriounly agi~ tated at the throntoned repudietion by cortain of tho Southern Btates of that proportion of their bonds which have boen fraudulently jsenod. 1t s thig which has mainly suggestod the move- ‘ment for n national guarantes, They had botter stop long onough to conaider which {s tho moro dnngerous,—tho repudiation by certain Btates of bogus indobtodnass, or tho serious dopreciation snd probably repudiation of bona jide national socuritien, which might rosalt from tho desirod guarantao. CHICAGO TO PHILADELPHIA, Thoro scoms to be considorable surprise mani- forted in Philadelphin that Ohiosgo haa thus far oxhibited no interest in tho Contenninl Exhibi- tion, aud hes contributed no monoy towards ite exponsos. If tho mansgors of tho Cen- tonnial woro .in Chicago, they would probobly ascertain tho romson without any difioulty. Ohicago, just at prosout, has 60 much to do for horsolf that she caunob find timo to look aftor Lior neighbors’ intorests, how- ovor well disposed sho may be, place, wo have got our own Exposition to look aftor, which opens Sopt. 25, weoka from now, and we bave gotan immenso smount of work to do and very little time to do it in, Tho and arranged, powor sob up, s finc-nrt gallery to bo arrangod, ote., in three weeks. In addition to this, many of our strects are boing repaved; our morchants are proparing to go into winter quartors in good shapo for the first timo sinco tho fira; tho political pot i boiling at & fearful rate, ond it will certainly slop over and all tho fat will bo in the fireif it is left, oven fors minuto ; the business of taxation is vory worri- gome, ono part of tho people trying to exphin it nud tho other part to undorstand it; tho rail- rond question is distracting everybody, and the BDoards of Equslization snd of Railrond Commissionors are grinding out nores of figures snd miles of computations ; all thewomen folks aro away, and writing lotters home which aro drandfully suggestive of inroads upon the mas- culine purses this fall and winter; we are prepar- ingaoveral thousand acres of land for parks; wo aro trying to find a place for our Pablic Library; we aro building new buildings on every street, and'overy man haa all he cau do from morning 1ill night, and no mon finds the dey long enough for tho day’a worke In e word, we have just got our honse rebuilt, which was burned two years ago, and wo oro now trying to furnish it, and got it into 'comfortable living order. como off for throo yesra yet, g0 that there ig amplo timoe, and no occasion for tho Contonnial managers to frot or worry. As goon a8 Chicago cun gat a broathing apoll, ahio will ba roady to do somothing, and will do hor part haud- somoly. Tho stmid and consorvative Phila- doelphiana should remembor that wo do things hore in o burry, and roquiro but vory littlo time.* Betwoon now and tho time of the Conten- nipl, Chicago bae got work enqugh on hand to amonnt t0 o thousand Contennials, Don'tbothor us, thorefore, just at prosont. Your favor is rocelved and contents noted, and we will romit 1o dua tino, — The cholers having brokon out in Btanford, Ky., the citizons of that town have formed sn sseoclation for mutual nid and proteotion,—sn sotion which should bo imitated in All small towns whers the discase makes ila appearance, Tho object is to afford prompt rolief and acaist- ance by advice, physioal labor, or pecuniary aid In order to choeck the progresa of tha dlgease, Tho Prosident of the Association is to remain in his offico, or deputo some one to stey thore, all the time, snd ho or his doputy Is authorized to snm- ‘mon the members by fifteon strokes of the Court- Houso bell. towna 18 much more malignant in its work than in larger oftics, in proportion to the population; and tho absence of good facilitios for carrying .off the poison and cheoking the disoaso aro so contracted that only by prompt and mutual ag- sistanco aftor this mauuer cau the diseaso be controlled. Tho doath is snnnounced of Prof, Gotifried fohwoizor, the Dirootor of the Observatory of Moscow. Ho wat born in Bwitzorland in 1810, Hia first rocorded obsorvations were of the August and Novombhor metoors, in 1830. In 1840 ho sottled in Russls, and in 1857 was appointed Director of tho Obscrvatory st Moscow, whick past ho filled until tho timo of his death, Mis principal claim to famo as an astronomor rosts upon tho first discovery of threo comots, and his ubflr.ul(‘unn upon tho eclipss o’! the sun last May, NOTES AND OPINION. Yostorday, bojng Sopt. 4, was Congrosslonal pay-day, under ' the sslary sot of March 5, and oheoks of $025 oach wero dlstributed smong 876 Ronators, Roprosentatives, and Delegatas-oloct, at their homes, or reserved till callod for in the fow'chaea of ‘vacarioiés and contosted elootions, Phio oot to the Treasury, since March 4, fora Gongresy ot {u gosslon, aud nok to asgowble un- In the first sbout threo bullding has yot to be finished and all tho goods have to bo placed in it The Philadelphia Centennial does not Tho cholera in villages and small 11 Decombor, hias beon, to this date, 81,410,000 ; sud to Decombor, whon Congress moats, it will bo, $3,115,000. Iaa thla monoy boon *pub whero it wlll do tho most good " i —Tho salary account of our Chleago Cons grensmon-oloot, Maroh 4 to Bopt, 4, stands thus: John B, Rico, six months' pay, $3,760; Jospor D. Ward, six montha' pay, 3,760 ; Oharlos B, Farwoll, six monthy’ pay, $3,760. Whon It was snnouncod, tho othor day, that thoro was ona (sud ouly onc) rofusal among Congressmon- oloct, wo wora just about to indulgo s hope— whon word camo that the Uongreesman lives in Dayton, Olilo. —Tho offico-monopoly party managors, in Cal- ifornis, wero ploased to call the P’eople's Move- mont " Dolly Vardon," just as, In Iows, tho mon in the Movement aro cslled ** Potato-Bugs.” . —In Ban Francisco the rival candldates for ‘I;Inyar ](;lo;{uun Sopt. 8), woro James Otis and amos M, MoDonald, who wero thus spoken of in tho Ohronicle ot Aug. 20 ! M. Otis 1s opposod to Chineso immigration, nover employs Ohincse, and hnw ofton frecly and openly ox- Drestad thoao sentimenta, Mr. MoDonold ia tho {rlend e Sf Ollnoeo; a0l us employed thein i this State snd l;:?hn; :rfmt"da? tvls. “Ilammr uly& of the o) opted in Ropublican State Conven- I‘Ion at Madison, laat wc‘;kx The Ropublican platfarms of the past beon Bl Ik ETRAat promiion 1o the peop, ana hiah sounding resolves Lo eradicato sll sorts of corruption. But eachi triumph of that party has beon followed by an incresso of frsud and corruption, until it has become oxceodingly diflioult for even o most ardent mom- ber of the party to put any faith in its promiscs, Wo hope, howover, for tho best, and if wo must again bo boaten in thia' Blato, wo earnestly pray that tho Re- publican party will'sot sl at work onorgetically to accomplish some, at ‘least of tho rcforma it ia 80 good a2 to prowmiso us, —Tha Bt. Paul Pioncer doclares itself puro and undefilod in Demooracy, * undor all circum~ stances 8 Demooratio nowapaper, following the porty through good snd through evil report,” and much more to the same offact. —~—Thoe Des Moines Republican, founded as a Harlan organ, mildly advisea Mossrn, Larlan, Wright, and othera to rofund their shares in tho splary-grab, soying : - ‘Wo truat the gentlemon above reforred to will placa thelr final action upon tho back-pay above question or cavil in the minds of the public, before thoy como to adviress tho peopls upon tho quentions of {116 dny un- dor tho suspices of the Republican party of Tow, ‘which has, porlinpa harahly, declared that the incronsy of salary waa o “ back-pay steal.” ~—Minister Washburno writes from Paris that 1o nover wroto, aa quotad, that the pooplo don’t send their Reprosentatives to Washington to act like Princos, buck fhe tiger, sud keep & haif- dozen miutrossos, If he did not say it ho might have done 8o, for It is truo.—Indianapolis Journal, ~—Tho salary-grab will never bo repealed un- less tho poople oloot men to Congress under .| solomn pledgo to do so. To law was made by Butler in order to bribo Congressmen bofore they take thoir sonts. They go thero with thou- ennds of the grab-money in their pockoets, and is it to bo expoctad that & Republican will wete 'monoy out of hia pocket ? It could. hardly be oxpacted oven of & Democrat, The Congress is ovorwhelmingly Ropublican, and Radical polioy is to teal all you. can.—Jutlinglon Uotwa) G- zelte, N ~—Tho thioves and their abottors and indorsers don't lilto to hear about back-pay. It makes thom froth at tho mouth, Tho' man, or papor, that defonds tho back-pay grab is just such a follow as would bo apt to harbor aud dofond any other thiof.—Fond du Lao (Wis.) Common- wealth, —Bomo membora of Congross have put in their ploa of provious good charactor, and askedif this counted for nothing, In this case it doos nob count. BMoen of the brightnfltapmspccts and the highost roputation have boon dostroyed by this porformance. Thoy have gone down suddenly and irrotriovably, and wodo not beliove they could m—da{ Do oleoted to any oftico in tha gift of tha pooplo * * 'his is the fecling ngainat tho salary-grabbors in Congross, Dofore tho Lmd comes it will also probably be the feolin, against Graut, the grestest salary-grabbor of all, who approved the bill, as it _containea a clauso incrensing bis own salary.—ZDubugue Herald. —The hoad of tho Republican - organization ia Ulyeses 8, Grant, Presidont of tho United States, Tho indictment againat him, 02 prosented by o Topublican salary-grabber, {n o respouse to_ lis constituonts, is in theso words: “If the delo- ntes boliove tha rotronctive salary-clauo is so famona thal 1 onEht 1o Tosign Jor vohing. for thoe Appropriation bill to which it was nttached, will thoy follow out their logioand ingist that the Presidout ouglit to Tosign for slguingit? My voto did not mnke ita law. Iis stgnature did.” Tho whole power of tho Administration is now Doing employed to make the champlon enlary- rablor, and chief counselor of the Orodit Mo- ilior contractors, Governor of Massachusgotts,— Albany Argus. A —IBen Butlor, who stands the best chnuce to bo clected Governor of the Republican State of Massnchusotts, is making n_most vigorous do- Tonso of tho snlary-grab, Tho Republicans de- nounce it in Stato Conventions, but thoy stand steadily b%lthu losders in it, who woro no others than Bon Butlor and Gen, Grant, Not a word i said by thom agninst the lattor, although ho pockoted £100,000 for giving ' Congropsmon $1,000,000 of tho * swag."—Jolict (II!.B‘ Signal. Back-pay is not popular, ovon with Penniyl- vanin Domocrats, It is ono of tho most remark- ablo and refroshing eigns of tho times to sco mon of both partics, in one Siate aftor auother, rising indignantly to denounce and drive from oftico mon who have abused thelr trust. Tho ‘Dot evidence of tho eincerity of this movement for roform is tho faot that honest mon in each party pay partioular attontion to their own party represontativos who havo proved unworthy.—sSt. Zouis Democral. —U. 8. Grant wag tho real proprietor, author, and finishor of tho salary-grab, with Gon, But- ler as his chief henchman. Do Republican conventions anywhere, do Republican journals, anywhore, has the 8t. Louis Democrat ever, “donounced” any attempt to ‘‘drive from office the man Grant for this abuse of a high trust 7—Omaha Lerald. —\Yhat {8 to become of the salary-grabbing Congressmen ? + . . An{ political parey that barbors & salary-thief is in danger. 'T'hoy can~ not appoar s skump spenkors, or 8 political ad- vigors, Their race iurun, and it ought to bo. 1o men wants togo down to.quiok political pordition, lot him omblazonou his shicld, T }9m1 for tucreased salary."—Adrian (3fich.) ress. —TIn farm-proiuce, it cost tho people of this digtrics the worth of about 100 bushols of corn to compenssta lr, Gerry W. Hazleton for one dny's sorvico in Cougross; in oate, 300 bushols oF dny 3 in whoat, 76 busbels por day ; in pote- 0os, 150 bushols.—Madison (Wis,) Democrat. —'Tho Iilinois Slate Journal desirea to know if the Register thinks ¢ that Meesrs, Morrison, Marphall, Knapp & Company " ghould refund the inoreascd Congressional puy to the Troasury of the United Btates? Of courso wa do. This incrensed Congressional snlary-bueipess waa concoiyed in fraud anu brought forth in robbery, and, as wo beliove _the wholo thing to bo an in- famy that will stink Jong after tho prosont mem- bord of Congross are dead and gonv, ity taint will mark - pyery man who fouchos it,—Ilinois State Register. L —\What is the Hawk-Eye going tq do about thoso membors of Copgress of tho Btato who ara pow drawing 8025 5 month, and haye beon sinco last 4th day of March, and havo not yet boen pworn in ay membors of Congress? We now hinve cloven men_ jn this Btato, all posted for gpocchos in tho Stato, except Allison, who is jn Turope, Thoy haye baen undoer pa{] since March 4, and, on tho 4th day of Soptembor, will hayo drawn_six months' pn{ oach, or $3,750 oach, ag- rogating to Iows $41,250,—Burlington (Jowa) azello, —I cave so little about parties aud oleations hat, if this is to be tha atyla of luslslnlhm, Tam willing to noslt at tho digging sud tho funoral ; pud I don't gare what party dumos afterit, Wo can't havo auything werso, iu my opinion, thon tho parly which Legins, six monthisafter the most ardent professions of egonomy, to raike our own gnlaries, 50 thnt Wo may put in our poukols £6,000 not drosmed sbout until two or threo \vuuhu‘ngo.—-ffi.!vph B, IHawlcy, in Congress, Fev, 23, ~The dismption of tho Domocrayfo party would bo deplored by Republicans ; it hns long consied to be dangerous as o natjonal parly, but kopt up siuch o fraut of opposition a4 sorvod to Dboguila the people into the Loliof of two nation- al partios, and also to keep wore formidyblo compalitora from tho flold.—Fond du Lao Com- monwealth, —The question of tho hour is not the protoo- tlon of tho binck race, but tho proteotion of the laborer. Nor can tho Democratio party gain an; thing from tho Farmers' Movemont, and Domo- oratio politicians Liad just aa woll lio low, ho farmors won't recognizo that old party any moro thau last yoar's aimanao. Benator Morton says 1 #'ho Yarmers' Movomont is to bo usod as n wedga to eplit the Itepublican party open, and whon that Is doua the part split off can ba turned over for the bonoflt of froe-trade and Domooratia yuos gnnumll‘y." Can Lo turnod overl Who wifl do that fitlo job? No, gontlomon polit- clans j you mn? figlit aver tho farmors, and oach side nm{uwor 0 : pooket them as you fiave Doen doing, but you will find at Jast that the farmiora aro golug to dot. for-thomsolves, and it will not Lo &0 enuL to “turn them ovor" as you may thiuk,—The Jowa Qranger, LAW FOR BANYON . Gan, Stiles Polnts Out Authority for Imprisoning Vagrants. Ry How {ho Prosiding Magistrato of the South Side May Mako ‘Himsolf a8 Umfiqfl as 100 & - Policomens i Home time sinco, Trir TRipUNE montioned the faot that Judge Soully had, instesd of fining va- grants, 8 has boen the custom, sentonced two or throo of them to tho Bridewoll—a much moro offoctual punishment, Bovoral of thoso meanest of all raseals, bunko ropers, have beon rocently arrestod on Madison and Clark streots, andtaken boforo Judge Banyon, and becn proven vagranta’ and flusd, But this bos availod nothing. Thoy have loafod about and pursued: their nofarious colling just a8 boldly an over, Waednosday tho police mado . snothor ‘‘pull,” and on Thursday morning thoy woro to bo tried. Now, slthough Judgo Soully has, attor caroful study, como to tho conolusion that ho can im- prison porsons guilty of .breaking a ity ordie uanco, Judge Banyon has not taken in the new gospol truth. To ehow tho law up inaclear light, go that the Judgo could distinctlysco it, Gen. Btilos went to the Police Court yostorday morning, and when the case of Ed. Burns camo up, on opportunity was offorod him. Boveral officors tostiflod that Burns Waa s well-kuown confidence man, pimp, and geuoral blackleg, Thon the Genoral procoeded to one lighten. Ho spoke of Bume' well- known character, and of the farco of fining him or any othor such fellow, and that the only punishment that csn bo inflicted to bo felt is imprisonmont, Ho had henrd that Judge Banyon did not think he was suthorized to im- prigon a person for misdemeanors coming under his jurisdiotion, but he would prove conclu- sively that he was a0 authorized to. do. Thero ore ‘throe questious that presont themselves: First, Is thore authority undor vtha ordinances paased by the Common Councll for imposing imprisonmoent as & penalty for violating the oity ordinances? Socond, Is thero suthor- ity under tho city cbarter for the Oom- mon Council to pass such an ordinance? and, third, Doca the Constitution of tho Btate of llinois permit tho charter of the city to author- izo tho Counoil to pass such ap ordinance? In 1862 such an ordinance was passed, and doolared byJudfic MeAllistor to bo unconstitutional, bo- causo that ordiunnco was passed undor the Htata Constitution of 1848, which says, in Bill of Rights, oo, 10: * No person aball bo hold to angwor for a criminal offcnse_unloss on the pro- sontmont or indictment of & Grand Jury, excopt 1n oases of imponchmont, or in eados cognizablo by Justicos of tho Pesco, or arising in tho army or_ navy, or in tho militis, whon In ac- tual norvico in time of waror public disordor ; provided, That Justicos of the Yoace susll try no pergon oxcegt a8 o court of inquiry, forany of- fonso punishablo with imprisonment or death, or fino abovo 100" Op tho “strength of this, many take it for granted that the Police Jue- ticos havo no fiaowor to inflict as & ponalty im- prisonment. Dnt under the . Conatitution of 1470 it says (in place of Sco. 10 fust quoted in the old Conatitution) in the BsH of Rights, Boc. 8: “No porson ehall bs_ held to anawor for, 8 orimi- nal offengo-unless on an indictmont of & Grond Jury, excopt in casos in which tho punishmont 1u by finos or imprisonment otherwisé than in the penitonfiary, in cases of impenchmont, and in Ccases arising in tho army and navy, or in the militin_when in actual sorvicoin time of war or publio dangor; provided, that tho Graud Jury may bo abolished by law in such cnoos’ Now, oxprosa provision'is horo mado for Polico Justlcos imposing ns & ponslty imprisonment. Since tho now Constitution, tho new city chartor has also boen adopted, and the question should be tosted by that and not by the Conatitution of 1818. In the gemorsl powersof tho Common Council, ag doflned in the city charter, wo find in Boc. 03: *The Common. Council shall have power within the jurisdiction of tho city, by ordinancs, to authorize tho arrast, fine, and imprisonment in the Bridewoll or Houso of Cor- rection as vagrants, all porsous,” ote. (going on to define who vagrants aro), And again, in Bec, 6i: ®fTho Common Council shall have power to mako, publish, ordain, smond, nud ropeat all such’ ordinauces, by-laws, and po- lico rogulationy, not contrary to the Constitution of thin Stata, for the good government and ordor of tha oity,” ote. *'I'he Common Council may also enforco such rules, ordinances, by-laws,and Polico and othor rogulations, ‘ns_ aforceaid, by punishment of fine of imprisonment in theCoun- 1y Jail, Bridewell,or Houseof Correction,or both, in tho disorotion of the Magiatrato or Court bes foro which “conviction may bo had; Provided, such fino shall not excood $500 nor tho imprisonment six montha.” - In Tuley’s Compila- tion of tho Lows nnd Ordinances of tho City of Chicago, Ohapter 28, Sec. 8, we find (aftor dofiniug who vagrants' aro): “That- such por- sons shall be deemed vagrants, aud, upon con- viotion, shall bo fincd in & sumnot loss than $3 nor oxcoeding $100, or imprisonment in tho Houso of Correction for p torm not oxceed- ing throo months, or both. In Gross' Compila- ton of tha Statufes of Lilnois, vol. 2, pago 236, wo find: * Justicos of tho Pence shil have ju- risdiction in all cases for tho violation of tho ordinances of cities, towns, and_villages,” Now we have the dutios of & Polico Justice de- fined, i. e., to enforco tho city's ordinances. Wo Dinve tho ordinanco passed by tho Oity Council under tho now oity ohartor, which latter han been adopted since the Constitution of 1870. The ordinance above quoted says that imprie- onmeut is o penalty for vagrancy. Judge Ban- yon, not wishing to decido upon 8o important a uostion immodiately, held the cago under con- slderation for ono week, It will evi- dently bo o triumph of justico if this fact ~ in law_ -sbal becpme _established, and thon wo will gee far fewer vagabonds about our atreots, Suporintondont Washburn enys if Banyon recognizos the law, it will be worth more 10 tho city thun 100 pohcemen. sl s A STOLEN AND RECOVERED, Seven Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Iouschold Goods Stolen=-Two Ar~ mory Detectives ltecover the Propers ty.and Capture the ‘Lhicves, For somo timo the French Ooneul in this city, M. Carrey, and Mr. Nixon, business manager of & morning paper, have had-stored in & Louseat the corner of Jlicuigan ‘avonue and Congress stroot a largo amonntof housohold goods valued at wix or-soven thousand dollars, No constant watoh wps sot over tho property, its owners Doing satisfled of its safoty by {napeoting it day by day, s they happened noar it, It Lns proved # fin bait for thicvos, belng not very scourly Jocked up, and locgted in & house otherwise un~ oceupled, and, since tho Tromont Hoyso cossqd to b, in 8 locality distantly romoved from pub- licity, Qn tho afternoon of Wednaesday, M, Carrqy was nstonisbed at the discovery that tho placo had boen broken into snd the prop- orty all carriod away. A vacant room and empty drawora aud closoty only mot his gazo. Tho job was s clean ouc, and must have been oxaontod on Tuckday night. Accoss was gained by taking out a light of glass from a front door, and opening tho entranco door from tho Ineldo, Tho robbery wap roported in person by M, Carroy at the Armory Statlon, on Weduoeday ovening, ~ Detoctivos Blayton and Gullagher woro dotalled to worlk up” the caso, Most of yosterday morning was #pent by thom in the pawa-shops, whera tha most important clues aro obtained to stolen property. The search was prosccuted withaut Enocess, until Mo hop 'of Worthsmmor, ~No. 330 Htato Hiroot, ~ was visitod yostor- day attarnoon, Theve they wero infornied by tho propriotor that two man had oallod upon him and #ald they wished to dispose of & quantity of goods, Worthammer made an appolutmont With thom for 2 o'clack, which waa "congeioy. tiously kopt by tho doteotives, Procisoly ot that Tiour byo M drove up to the shop i sn oxpress wagon containivg & largo numboer of baoky,, Tho mon waro at onea takon into oustody, Thoy offored no resistance, hut woro evidently com- lotoly taken by surpriso, having had falth that Yhu pawnbrokor would nob# give thom %p," oy Plie mon woro takien to tho ‘Armory 8tation, whoro thoy said their namos; Wero James Waghaw and Josoph Gramp.’ Aftor much crous-quetioning on tho part of the de- tootivos, thoy succoeded in worming from the thieves tho important g:!ormnnan that tho rosp of (ho.property could be found' pt No. 181 Hugs Xor stroot and No, 9 Burlington atrook. A thor- ouhg sosrch was mado of thesa houscs, which rosulted in the findiug of the rest of tho goods, conslating in tho main of silver-waro, woaring apparol, and n bronzo clock valuad ot $76. Tho , tatal valuo of tho property rocoverad is mnot fax from £7,000. Tho thieves are evidently not the ehrewdest in the city, but aro a dangerons braco, baing roady 10 nhed bluod to effoct tholr purposos. Tho property will all bo returned to its owne orn to-day, whon the thioves will have an _oxam- Ination. ~Olher nrresta woro mado at tho housos whora tho:goods were found, but tho names of tho parties arrentod have not hoou given, The datoctiyes who did tho job aro twouncstontations porsons, who do their work thoroughly aud make no bones of it, Thoy aro constantly moritiug hlPh praise, and in this cano it waa ouly by thelr diligonco and enorgy that the pn:}mny Was roe coverod and its purloiners arrested. -CITY-RAILWAY MATTERS. Can the Strect-Cars Bo Taxed for' Revenue ? Tho Question Debated Beforo the Counclk Commitico on Railronds, The Counoil Committes on Railroads—Alder~ men Woodman, Bidwell, Swoet, Dixon and Quirk,—was 1 session yestordsy afternoon, and considered & potition of tho Chicago Llate and Lar Mill Compsuy for nn extonsion of timo, from Aug. 81 to operato their railway track on Thirty-firat ntroot, and rosolved to report in fan vor of extonding the timo five yoars. Tho comtnunication from Luke Norton I rof- oronco to H. B. Boguo and tho Chicago & Pa« clfio Raflway Company, handed to tho Committee ;Tuuly 14, will bo rocommendod to be placed on o. An informal, short, but lively, discussion was had on the subject of tho Iilinois Contral side~ {racka on the Lake front, with & final determine~ tlon to get some ono to iutroduce a resolution in the Council ordering thom taken np. Ald Tracoy’ s resolutions, directing thoe Conncil to propare an ordinance compolling railway com=~ panies to pay license on street cars, roforred to the Committee June 80, wan taken up and dig~ cussed. It had been tho Intention of the Com- mitteo to hoar the opinion of Corporation Coungol Tuley on tho legal pointa presented in thio matter, but ponding his roturn to the city, Mr, Bradley, Presidont of tho West Sido Com. pany, Mr. llennessy, of tho South, and Mr, Ture nor, of tho North fiide Company, wora intros duced to the Committes. It was™ thought best to dofer final consideration of the question on account of Mr. Taloy's absouce, 3. Bradloy waa jnvited by Ald, Woodman to ivo hig viows on tho subject, which be did, ns ollowe : * Mr, Hounessy has alrondy stated to {:u," (which Mr. Hennossy had = not dono tho mooting), “that wo don't want to raise tho logal question for discussion until Mr, Tuley is prosent. Mr, Tuley has told mo, that he had no iden in the world that tho city had authority to license our cars for revonuo, He told mo, nyear or two ago, that thero might bo a quostion whother the city could wpot liconso the cara as a gn lce regulation—a simply nominal tax. udgo Curtis hias delivored an” opinion on tust samo point to tho same effect. It is the view tho courts tako of the matter. X don't think the city could enforco such s license,for tho reason that ita rovenuo is dotived from another sourco contracts with us, The equitoblo viow of this question is this: Gon, Hotchkiss has kindly furnished mo with a mowmorandum of the gross receipts of tho city for all the vobicles that aro liconsod. Tho Yiconses issued einco April 1, 1878, nominally are 4,208, Tho _amount ro- coived is 816417. I don't undoratand that our contracts are all uniform. Wo biave Inid out, in paviog stroots, in the last twenty months, $64,500,01, Wo have entirely ronowed the pavements on sevoral stroota, In the last four months of 1871 wo paid out nearly $121,000 for paving, ~Our streot exponses Inst year anda half, all told, hayo boon $66,560.01, Wo pay out for paving Just twice as muok as the city receives for liconses, Wo are willing to pay any fair proportion of the regular - exponfos in making street .improvements, but thero is toa great disparity made hero.” _ Ald. - Dixon stated that tho matter wss first proposod when tho Appropriation bill was pending. Thore was an ftem in tho bill of $43,000, which Mr, Tuley hold tho city wad linblo for, for repaving stroots whoreon the Weat 8ido Company ran, The Company had been as« gossed, but rofused o pay the tax, and had carried tho caso to tho Suprome Court, whioh _tribunn} had sustained them, 1le wanted to colloot that 240,000 by liceneo tax. Mr. Honnossy explained that ho did not think any of tho etrcols on tlo Kouth Bida were pavod during tho pondenoy of the question a8 to whathor the railway companies woro liable or not. ‘The Compnuy had made the Btroots possable on the South Bide, and wore koxj:ln§)umm in ropair. d. Dixon wantad to know whether tho city was legally responsiblo for tho cost of sprinkling tho stroota on tho Wost Side, Mr. Bradloy answored, cortainly tho city wao zesponsible. r, Dixon—I wantod to raiso rovenue from ovory possiblo source, and I thought $25 on enehi of your cars would bo little auough. Tho mattor was finally laid over while the nnluiun of Corporation Counsel Tuloy .could ba obtained, TN NORTH WELLS STREET INPROVEKENT. A petition has boon sont to the Board of Pub- lio Works asking for tha olovation and grading of North Wolls stroot, from the bridgo to Oslk stret, that tho stroot may be brought up to the established grade, To effect this the filling will bo four foot between the bridge and Michigan stroot, throo foot botwoon DMichigan and Obio _streots, two foet botweon Ohio and Huron = sireets, and from Turon to Ol stroot, whoro tho grado runs out, about ono faot. - Tho stroet i8 now iu a fair condition, and thore is g0 much cspnuitlon to tho cost of the improvement that it”is probablo the work will be delayed for somo timo, It is understood {hiat nd soon a the stroct is ralsed to grade tho North Chicago Street Railyay Company, with the consont of proporty-holders, will build a track on tho strost oxtending north to Lincoln Tark, and making o copnection with the Soutl Bide fino, This willmako s continuous lin from tho Michigan Soutliorn dopot to Lincoln Park, connecting with the various linos in sll parts of the city. R The Transatlantic Balloon-Voyage.; * "Tne managors of tho New York @raphio an- nounco the noar complotion of tho apparatus for tho 'Transatlantio balloon-voyage of Mesers. ‘Wiso aud Donaldson, aud_adds: /It was our original intontion to svoid ovorything liko pub- fio dliaplsy in tho mattr, sinico it becomad vory onsy for a misappreliension as to the true objact of the entorpriso to arisa. Our 0w, a5 woll_as tha oustantly oxpressed deeiro of Mousra, Wisa and Donaldeon, Liss been to dispateh tho balloon on its complotion a8 soon s tha woathor should provo favorabla; for tho risk of detungemont to n inflatod balloon of such immonsity s vor ront, whilp it romains fastenod to tho ground, &‘hc annonncemant of our purposoe to dispatel tho oxpedition” without uny_furmal publio oo« csnion has, Lowaver, given riso tomuch dissat- fufaction on tho part of the public, 50 many ro- uosts to bio notified of and allowed to withoss Yo doparture have beon mndo, ihat wo oro lod _to change tho pru grammo, provided evorything proves favor. ablo whon inilation commonces, ‘The balloon will firat be pactly inflatod, in order to test its power of ho! l\&nq gas, and then emptiad, pre paratory to the fiual inflation, which must of nocessity bo conductod with rapidity, As soou 25 the final infiation is accomplishiod, the oxpes dition will ukart without unuccossary delay. An opportunity will bo givon to the public to gratify thoir ourlosity during the proliminary Inflation, but whethaer any public announcomount can bo mado of the day of the final iuflation or the Jour of doparture, will dopond ontirely nnon tha prognostigations of tho woather. Arrange. mionts have beon mado for o prompt receipt of slguals from the Woather Bureau, and if these rove eatisfactory, wo may be ablo to announco Lo doparture from twonty-four to thirly-six Liours befaro it osours. 'Tho bost wo oan undor- tako to do now, howavar, is to eay that the sscon- slon will pmhufifly take placo botweon EAPL. 1 snd Sopt, 12 but whothor tho departure will be afterwavds moro dofinitely annouuced will de~ peud entirely upon tho weathor,"” B Duel nt New Orleans. A duel with small swords wag fought In Now Orleane, on tho 20th ult., botweon Mr, Andro L. Toman, of thoNow Orlonns ety and 0.°d8 1o rotqung, editor of tho Sup.* Ar, “Towan wal) ico woiinded in tho right &rm, when the sute con declarod that tho fiht could not go on, aud g&n alfalr terminated.