Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 17, 1873, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMA OF AUDRONIPTION (PATADLE Rallreduiyetter:B UG08 Sy Parts of & yonr at tho samo rato. o provont dolay and mistakos, be sure and riva Post Diico address fa full, including Stato and County, Tomittances may bo mado olthor by dratt, expross, Post Dillco ordor, o in rogistored lottors, at our risk, TENME TO OITY AUDEORIDERE. Deily, doliverod, Bunday oxcoptod, 2 cente per wook. Datlsy dollvorod, Sunday inctudod, 80 conta por weak. Addross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Chloago, Til TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, OTEY'S THFATRE Randololh stroof, hotwoon D’I‘;\:?:nnll‘uslllv. W Kiod o 8 ¥AUL" and. ++ Tho Posk »f Hiohor," ACADEMY OF MUBIO—Halstod stragt botwoan Bad. oy aud Monroo, Iingagemont ol Bits, ~ Chaufr 3 Joalousy, ar tha Outeast Wife." GLOBR THEATRE-Dosplainesstroet, hotwssn Mad. sy and Worliagton, Engagemont of Lauk Alboria, ¢ 0ut af MYERS' OPERA-HOUSE - Mc atrent, betsroon gn:‘rhnmuguon Hlato. nummrfil"fi’ XSty oo tho e L4 8. inatrolsy and domiy DR, KAHN'S MUSEUM OF ANATOMY-Olark stroot, botwoon Madison and Monroo, b A A BUSINESS NOTICES. " W NTIVER SEEN MRS, WINSLOW— T Lok oy theounl o proparation of hor Sootbing yrup for olilidron toothing, 11 wae lind tho power, wo wunld mako Ler, as sho is, & plisicsl savior to tho infant Faco, 3 T VISITING NEW YORK WILL DE B SRS (Lot o of. Mo, Aloriimes Maino ormorly of (o Bt, Oharlos, New Orlonas, snd tho i ard Honso, Riohmoud) In tho offica of **fTho Windso No endeavors will b rod to ' this now hotol moat popuiar, as it 0 most, 0] HENHV in tho land. The Chicags Tribune, Monday Morning, November 17, 1873, Po:atmnaler‘flenurn\ Oreawell has finished his coport to tho noxt Congross. It is understood that' ha strongly urgea his pot schomes for Postal Savings Banks and a Postal Tolograph. A nogative virtue of the docnmont will be its omis- sion of recommendations of steamship jsubsidy jobs. A compromiso has beon offected betweon Ken~ gon Cox & Co., Daniol Drow’s brokors, and thelt croditors. Tho firm make an assignmont of their proporty on condition that for oightoon ‘months no suit shall be brought by tho creditors todisturb tho sottlomont of thoir affairs, Tho property thus assignod for tho bouefit of their creditors is oatimated to be worth half a million. The Now England railroads terminating in Boston report that they have not yot oxporienced any measurablo 11l xesults of tho panic. Thoydo not expeot to escapo theirshare of thestagnation of trado. Much of, their business comos from tho manufacturing companies along thelr linos, and thoy must eventually foel whatever affects thom .| unfavorably, Consequently, a dull winter is an- ticipated, which their employes will foel in a ro- duotion of wages by 10 or 20 per cont. The Associnted Pross yosterdsy brought the Intelligence that Mra, Tompleton, a daughtor of Qen, Babcock, of President Grant's staff, had been shot by hier husband in New York City. -As Gen. Babcock is & young man, who, only five yoars ngo, married an eatimablo young lady, the dnughter of Unitod States Marshal Campbell, of this city, tho autlonticity of tho statomont that his daughter, aged 20 years, has boon shot, may Do vory soriously questioned, Victor Emanuel, in his opening speech to the Italion Parlinment, treated the Pope to very much thio samo plain talk that the German Em- poror has givon him, His roligious sentiments and his liberty, said tho Italian rulor, we will sespect, but wo will not pormit attacks upon the notion and its institutions. Tho other points to which the attontign of Parlisment was direoted were tho work of intornal organization,—partic- nlarly the improvement of the army and navy,— nnd the financial system, A lively scone may Lo oxpected to-day in the Fronch Asacmbly, in the debate on the prolonga~ tion of President MacMahon's torm. The Right domand thot this bo flxed at ten yoars. Tho * Prolongation Committoo” have reported tlat to give him moro than five years would be to Invest him with dictatorial powors in a disguised form, and would endanger the Republio in its progent unsoftled state,” Notwithstanding this report, Gon. Changarnior means to move jn favor of o ten yoars' term, and the moderate members of the Left and the Republicans will ‘unite in opposition to the Machahonites. Col. John W. Young, now lying in jail in this rity to await his trlal for forging money-orders, figures in tho Cuban nows in a thoroughly char- ncteristic rolo. Mo is said to have offored bimeelf to tbo Captain-General a8 o docoy to procure ' ho capturo of Oa- bans, " by" tho® “shipload. = The , honorable fervico ha proposed was to embark npon somo., lumbering vessel tho largest numbor of Oubans ho could porsuade to onlist in. an expedition ngoinst the Spaniards undor his lead, and then betriy them 'to their enemics. To the honor of the Captain-General, it is rolated that the only cesponse to this contomptible proposition was a aotico to Young to'quit tho fidand at onco, ~ e It the ndvertising public cannot find ot in tho usual way that a cortain newapaperis pub- lished in this viclnlty, thoro aro three ways to meie them aware of the fact. One is to sub- fect them and thair familios to & systom of so- cial dragooning. Anothor is to send ofrontars to them, and hiro -drurumors to bore them. The third is to insert an advertisement of the fact in somo newspaper ‘which thoy are jn tho habit of seeing, Mr, Wilbur F\. Btorey has tried tho first two mothoda with indifforont auccoss. We ad- viso hiim {o try the last, and to continue it faith- fally, Tho Chicago Tmes has less advertising, relativoly,, than it had five years ago, and the amount is steadily decreasing, Henco the fran- Ll efforts of Mr. Storoy to apprise tho publio, by moans of eiroulars and othorwise, thpt ho is still publishing a nowspapor, e The Chicago produce” markets wore falrly sative on Baturday, aud grain was wenk and fov- erish, though averaging higher than on Friday. Ress-pork. was in good demand snd 10@200 higher, olosing at 811.873%@12.00 cash, snd $12.25@12.8744 scllor January. Lard was active and Jgo Ligher, at 7o cash and 7o soller Jan- uary, Menats wore less notlve and stronger, at B3¢0 for part enlted shoulders, 6340 for do short ribs, 6o for do short cloar, aud 6}4@7i¢c for groon hams, Lake froights woro loss active and firmer, st 6}¢o corn to Bulfalo, Highwinos were quiot and steady at 870 per gallon, Flour was quiot dnd unchanged. Wheat was activo aud 1o higlior, but olosed woak at $1,00 cash sud 09340 sollor Docomber, Corn was lesa active and o higher, olosing weak at 87)¢o cash and 883¢e sallar December, Qats wero dull and 1o lowes, Pils CHICAGO DAILY 'fRIBUN MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1873, ocloalng at 300 cash aud 80 sollor Docomber. Ryo waa quict and 1o highor, at 3@02}¢o. Dar- 1oy wan quiet but Io higher, cloalng at $1.82 for No. 2 and 026 for No, 8, Hogs woro aotive and stondy at £3.00@4.00. Tho ocattlo and shoop markota woro lifcloss- and nominal, the formor at #1.60@6.60 and tho latter at 82.76@3.80. The resignation by Judge BoAlllator of his placo on the Bnprome Beuoh, to accopt the posi- tion of Corporation Counsol of thoe City of Chi~ cngo, ia not moroly a fortunate thing for thoelty, but an act of considorablo significance. 'Ibo sal- ary of Judge McAllistor as Bupremo Judgo is §5,000 & yosr, Out of thin hio la roquired to pay his traveling oxponsos and all poraousl exponsod whilo holding, court, Thoso aro estimated to bo from #1,600 to $3,000, thus lonving him only from ©3,000 to 3,600 & yoor.as nnlqll com= ponsatlon for Lhis services, As Corpo- ration Counscl, Judgo, MoAilister will recoive $0,000, out of which ho will have no extrs ex- ponsos to pay, Ho is woll worth that. amount, and will unquostionably save tho city mors than thatsum ovory yoar that ho romatus in offico. Now tho question is, it Chicago can afford to pay 0,000 & yoar to mecure eminont logal ability, cannot the Stata afford to pay more than 85,000 ayear to socuro the same for the Supremo Bonch ? ! The recent horso raco in San Francisco, of four-milo hoats, was in every way a disgracoful affair, -Ono of tho horsoes, who wa worthy of & bottor- fato, was taken into the raco by his owner, notwithstanding that his knoes woro stiffoncd, aud that his lustroloss eyos ehowod that ho was in no condition to run at top spood for tho unusual distance'of sixtecn miles. Dur- ing tho flrat eight miles, the noblo.animal ex- erted himsolf to tho utmost to win thoe raco for his ownor. At tho commoncement of tho third hoat, or ninth mile, howaver, ho was ex- hausted, and was left far in tho distanco by tho othors, and, at tho end of tho twolfth milo, ho was found lying in tho track with a broken’. log, rulned for life. Tho track was immedistoly oloafed, however, and tho sixtocnth milo' was flnished, to the'delight of * the thousnuds who hiad assombled in tho open-nir gambling-house. Tho'fato of this racer, who has thus suddenly onded his turf days, s o significant argument sgalnst tho bratality tdo ofted practicod ab these oxbibitions, which ostensibily aro given for the edification of tho public, and in Teality” for tho accommodation of gontool gamblors, to ply their vocation whore tho Jaw caunot reach them, Our repoated admonitions to the Chicago Times concorning tho vulgarity and indecency in its columns gave a rensonnble hope that thab paper would roform its habils. Most' families, hinve long sinen oxcluded the sheet as unfit to bo read by any modest woman. Yoaterday, it broko. out again, ‘and rotailod with disgustiog minnte~ noss a 'story of the -slums,” fu .which .a husbond of “a . fov months s desoribed ag - the viotim "of = dograded wife. ThoTirmes glontd ‘over ¢acn 1tom of indéconcy with its peouliar fondness.* To mako tho out- rago complato, 1t wonb out of its way to cast im- putation on tho charactor of ‘tha acligol the woman attended, and declared that thore have, graduated 'from the Convent of tho Bacred Hoart in this citynot a few of tho worat fomales. in this cicy. Of all the smutty stories over pub- lished in that paper, this vile concontration cf nastinoss ie equal to any that has precoded it. Tho time has been when thero wore published in collars and secrot placea in this city papors do- voted oxclusively to that class of litoraturc ; but tho Times hus beon able by its superior enter- prise to drive thom all out, and haa long had a ‘monopoly of that which the Grond Jury was ‘wont to indict a8 o pestiforons nuisance. Bocretary Belknap was in New York on Satur- - day, and is roported to have said, in roferonco to tho soorot deliborations-of tho Cabinet meeting concerning the Virginius case, that tho nmplest- monsuros had beon decided wpon to' ob- tain satiefaction for that outrage. Tho Ameri- can poople, ho._ eald, must be please if thoy would not be satisfled with thém, Soyen hundred men wero at work all day Bun- day in tho Philadelphia Novy-Yard, and almost oqual sctivity 18 manifost in tho othor yards. Tho largest vessela named a8 being propared for sorvioo in the Gulf are tho Minnosota, Colorado, Ajax, - Canandsigus, Nahant, and Powhat- sn, Publio fooliog throughout the coun- try shows no less heat. The moeling at Bt. Louis on Baturday was vory largoly at- tonded, and wis addressed by influential apenit- ers, ‘of whom was Mayor. Prown. Ono nofe- worthy fact ig tho prosenco, in numbors, of ex- Confodoratps, .who showed that, thoy: had rogained tho sontimontof nationality sufficlontly to ool outraged by theaffront offered the United Btatea by the Bpaniards, - The Spaniards in Cuba are roported to bo very anxious to know what the Amvrlgunn thiuk of thom. In Madrid, therq aro rumors of a Mipistorial orlsls, eaysed by the course of tho Goyernmont, . © : - - : “'The puperstition which still oxlsts- in the world relative to: the powers of sorcory is.illus. trated by o rocont ocourronce in Paris. Margn- rob Pharamot, who has plied tho trade of sorco- rpss for five years, waa arrosted-on complaiut of 5 young girl to whom ehe had #01d somo falso hair alleged to have been ‘taken from a woman who lod of lovo'‘on tho night of Al Saints, when Jilay 20 yopra of age. Tho balr was sup- posed to have tho.powor fo melt tho heart of young mau whom the gix] wag seoking 2 band ; but, although sho wora it peratafontly. in’ bor chignon, it had no offect fi!mtnv_ '['..hn' young mun, fifteen’ days after sho boyght i, wont-off - and . married anothor woman, Af. tor the amrrest of tho sorcoress, hor quariers wore visited. Hor consuliation-room was or- rauged ijn gonuine .Walpurgis siylo, and con- tained evon-tho. pouventional broomatick ypon which sho was supposod-to ride on stormy nights. On’ tho wails hung tho following tarilt of prices: A tibia, innor shin-bone, of an old ‘man,—a oherm_for the acquisition of wealth,— $0C; o philtre, to mnke one loved, 2 ; o toad's oye, tp suro all kinds of disoaso, 109f, Bipco tho arrest of thy ‘Woman, i hips transpired thai hor viotims wore not alone pmong thia lowor ' clasgos, bub also amopg tho ariatogrgoy; and that numerous. mombors of the Gommyno, dnring the insurrection, used to buy philfres of Lor 'for the purposo of seouring the succoss of thelr causo, ! Many aro tho romedies proposed for i pres- ont financial condition of the country, Next -in sbsurdity to the 1pflation of gropnbpok curranoy, rocommopded by Mr. John B, Willlams, Presi- dent of thae Motropolitan Bank, of New York, isa plau elsboratod by s wrlter in tho Jowa Stats Journal, who intjmatoa that Greod of Cain s the prylng evil of tho day, and that the scquisi- tlon of woalth aliould be xenosssd by » ellding bard’ to'] soalo of taxation, imposing n tnx of ono-half of 1 por cont on all porsons owning mors than 85,000, 1 por cout on’all porsous owning more than 810,000, and o on to $1,000,000, whoro tho tax should bo prohibitory, This is not by any | monng & novel scheme. It has heon proposed in vavious countrios nid varlous ages of the world, but hno’ never, wo bollovo, boon put, in forco, boeanse, when earefully oxaminod, it was soen. Lo vo a taxon thrift and a discourngomont to cconomy. Some fow bold thinkors havo gone fo far as to say that thrifty and oconomiesl persons are usoful to the world, for, sinco thoy are unnblo to carry any- thing out of the world when thoy dio, they aro really adding to tho world's wonith, Tho most voracions millionaird can't oat moro than one leg of mutton a day, or wear moro than ono sult of clothes at s timo, What ho don't consumo Lo ovidontly loaves bohind him. We commond this viow to tho Towa State Journal, but we will add that wo think the invontor of this plan s, on tho wholo, wisor than Mr, John E, Willlams, of tho Motropolitan Bauk, who appears to think that thore will bo more proporty in the country if it is moasured by $1,000,000,000 of groou- backs than if moasured by $850,000,000. . A TAXPAYERS' ASSOCIATION. The timo has como in the governmont of this city and county whon there must be somo or- gonization for the protection of tho public against unjust and illegal taxation, A Bpring- flold paper calls tho attentlon of tho State to the wonlth and magbificonco of Obicago, and indi- catod that biore is tho placo for tho tax-gathorer to roap his' harvest. Tho -same papor gravely assuros its rondors that “thoonpital and nesets’ of tho National Banks of Chicago alono “are | ovor £495,000,000, being mosrly double the amount on which Oook County is assessed for Blate taxos in 1873, and domands thab heroaftor tho State sball look to Obicago for its rovenuo, Wo have, in nddition to tho Btato Government, with its supplomentary | ‘logislature known as the State Board of Equal- ization, variouslocal Governments, il clothed: with tho power of taxation, Theso include: 1. Tho suthoritics of tho Towns of North Ohicago, Bouth Chicago, and Wost Chicago; 2. Tho sovoral Bonrds of Park Commissioners ; 8. The Common Council 3 oud 4, Tho Board of County Commissioncrs,”.- All of thoso possess tho power . to . lovy taxoes nnd oxpond . tho monoy. .. The Park- Commissioners may . be restricted, but tho others have no .restriction otber than their own discretion. The Common - Council aro restricted by the Constitution from isguing and selling any more bonds until the ‘municipal debt shall be reduced, but the Board otlfl_mmey Commissionora aro not restrainod, As tho limitation to which tho county dobt may bo _incronsed " is G por cent on tho aggrogate of tho Slato nssossment, it 18 in - the ‘power of that Board of fiftedn membors to issue bonds and iucrense tho- dobt from the presont sum of $4,000,000 to $15,000,000. Eight ‘membors constitute & mejority of the Board, and ftl.mso eight may issue bonds and gell them, and expond the procoeds at their diseretion, ntil they have exbausied tho 11,000,000. The impor- tanco and dangor’ of that power can be bost Judged by looking at tho list of the members, as follows: * . Sam Ashton, 3.1, Clough, Joln Crawtord, Georgo M, Boguo, Chrintian Busse, Thomas Lonergan, John Joucs, A. B, Johuson, * Joseph Rooile, 3.1, Ruseell, Jolin Hertiug, ©. . Iarrison, W. D. Burdiok, 1L, M. Binger, A caucus has dotermined that Ashton is to bo Provident of this Bonrd, and to make up the standing commiltecs. The public will, of courso, rogard that ns an indiontion of tho pro- datory intentiona of the majority, The major- ity in the Common Council is rostrained, or may bo rostrained, by tho voto of tha Mayor, Tho majority of the Board of Commissionors is abeoluto in it action. Against its illogal actlon tho only romedy Is an appeal to tho law through tho courts. Tho same courdo is essontially nog~ essniy in all tho cases of illogal, unequal, or -oxtortionate taxation. To mako tis ap- plication to tho conrts effoctive, thoro must bo union, co-operation, and concontration. In other clties, this procaoding has beon found nacessary for tho protection of tho citizons agamst the rapacity of tho Municipnl Govornment. For this purposo, thore is organized o ““ Taxpayors' Association. The object is not to reaist the payment of lnwful, just, and noces- sary taxation, but to’ opposo overy attempt by thie syindling local governments to oxcoed thoir suthority, to embark in wild ontorprises, and to indulge in tho pastimo of selling public ‘bonds for tho more purposa of dividing the pro- coeds smong a horde of tax-eaters, This organ- ization can omploy counsol, and, through its officers, can ' act promptly and offec- tivoly for" the. whole' publie. - Thoy will sorvo 88 & vigilint suporvinor ovor the proceodings of - tho various Boards in tho mattor’ of creating dobt, lovying texes, and oxponding mopoy. They can gpply for injunctlons, and fake all othor atops toarvest and-stoy illogal and impropor proceodings, and proscoute-all-appenls to flanl judgment in the highost courts. Such an organization will bo a valuable auxiliary to tho local Governmont. Ono effeet will bo fo brosk up the looso and slovenly way in which all onr tox business {s douo; it will provent theso Joseph Harrls, . muibieipal bodics “taking the chances,” and will confino tho operation of levying taxes to logiti-- mato objoets, within tho strict lotter of logal su- thorlty, The timo has come for such an organ- ization In Ohicago, "It should' no longer bo do- Jsyod. i b . THE GASE OF THE VIRGINIUS, . T the Editor of The Chicayo Tribune ; * Your artico. nbout tho annezation of Gubs Lits tho Dall oxactly on tho head, 5o dow'k want itatany price, but T am sorry to seo you take ground In tip Yirginius ‘matlor, whioh tands to throw your grest fullueucy op. the eide of tho Alibustering, weimaking opiuit whicl . pravuils, Tho remembrancs of sweet norsols still Linigw eyound many who havo lind conteacts oud jobs, and tho hundseds of ruined spoculators left hiyh sud dry by tho panio Would ke nothiug better than a “ulindy ™ with rain oz any ofier powor, You soy 1t 12 conceded that tho Virgiulis 5'sh Amsrican vessel, Ithink youwill find that Spain Las proofs that sho was, Jugt 88 muol: Amerlcan as tho Alabams was Fuglish; but both wero really tho provorty of 1ho Jeolgly, bought and fitted out with (helr monoy, in contrayorition of the moutrality laws, The Amerlean roglster wud fho Amorloan Qug ab soa, If Lona fids American, aro no doubt eutitlod f Fespgct 49 much as Amgstenn soll—préma fucio; but, if used 84 8 wore cayar for pirscy, slave-trading, or flibustoring, nbvor ought o' proyeat suy patiou, in good fuith und in a proper manyer, frowm sgarching {n time of war or ro- Lollion, aud of fpjzing I cusp ronsonahlo proof' ia found, Nobody pretcusda to doubt that the Virginius was parrying an oxpedition to lygd fn Gubs, which was Just 2 frrogular uetho B, Albans vald, and wo oughito e alow fo taka eides with tho popular ourveut, And condemn {he pyogpedingon technioul grounds, Wo ale ways mado & practiao of Loarding slavers, no matter what flag they Lioisted, and f the scarch furnished proot, we dld not rogard Amerloan nor Britjuh rogisters, Yt our iudignation bo levied sgalust tho subioquent barbarlty, and the coudemnalton and excoution withe _out & Court of Admiralty, and ospocially sgainst tho indepant aud discourteous haste with which the 1ards, under tho timulus of tho brutal Volunteers, earriod throngh hio oxoution without permitiing our Counnl to folograph, Dut pray. don’t make it more sorfoun than 1t {8 sa a castte bollf, You will find, probably, that Captain, oraw, and pas< sengors waro all in the sorvico of the roboln, sud thst 1o venaol was owned by thom, and hor flag and her continuing fo hold tho roglstor & shnm and a fraud, afmilar to tfioso Lord Russoll countenanced in the caro of tho Rebol crutsora (thoy wera not privateors). Of courao tho Spnniards aro a savage Taco, sud {t would bo too complimentary to call the Cuban suthorltics semi-civilized, Nobody can apologize for thelr doings nny moro than they could . for tho brulalilios of (ko Englial fo blowlug Hopoys from tho months of thelr cannon; but 168 1o moro a cavaa of war than it would hnvo beon 42 wo lind caught tho Alabama befora slio holsted ber Rebel flag, and taken tho reaponsibiiity of proving later {hat sho was the property of the Robels, and hor flag & more fraud sud covor, T X, Oiuoao, Nov, 16,1873, : . REMARRS, * If we have no causo of war with Bpain, it would bo criminal folly to have any war, of courso. “fWhat wo hiave sald on this subjoct has prosup- posed a'thorough investigation of the facts, not* tochnical moroly, but golng to tho root of tpo mattor, Our porition is, that if wo Liave a just causo of war, wo should bo doterrod neither by sympathy with the Spanish Ropublio on tho ono fiand, nor by our prosent finanoial difiicultios on tho other, -Tho responsibillty which a Govern- mont asaimos whon it commonces shodding in- nocent blood (for all war involves. that, more or loss,) {8 vory grave, and ils justifioation is found only whon all othor romodics have boon ox- hausted, THE LINCOLN PARK ABSESSMENT OASE, The peoplo of Chicago have no roason to rxe- grot that tho Buprome Court has roversed the docislon of Judgo Williams in which he con- firmed the assessment lovied on the Towns of North Chicago and Lake View for tho paymontof tho proposed addition to Lincoln Park, In tho firet placo, tho looso and jrregular monner hr, which tho agsessmont was mado, and, in the soc- oud place, the conduct of the persons mainly intorested in tho collection of tho tax, stamp the' entlro procoeding’ s " unwarrantod and ud- just. Tho eamo partlos first endeavored to grab soveral hundrod thousand. dollars from tho Cliy Treasury. They wont down to Bpringflald aud induced tho Logislature to pass nn act authorizing the Park.Commiasionors to nssegs damages and improvements, and thon cad upon the Mayor and Gomptroller of Chicago to issuo thom city bonds for the amouat nocosasry o pay for the lands thus acquired. ¥ wasan iniquitous grab, and the Bupreme Court decided against it on tho ground that tho Logislature hiad no suthority to lovy municipal taxes, Not discouraged by this, they sought to gooure their onds by inducing the Bupervisors of Lake View and North Ohicago to come togothor in joint sossion, and asgess the property of ' both towns without any- regard to tho soparate, functions of tho two corporations. ] Tho main point of the Suprome Court deelsion 18, that tho proporty of .ono town cannot bo ‘as- gossod for tho local improvemontsin andthor town, which is* cortainly & very olear requires’ mont of our presout Btate Constitution, Tho Constitution authorizos the Gonoral Assembly to voat the corporpte authority of municipali- tlos with tho powor to make local improvemonts, by speolal agsossment, ‘or by Bpedinl taxation, or, othorwise. An act of tho Liogisleture made an application of this clause to the onlargement of packs, proscribing spocial assossmiont as tho modoof procceding. Theroupoa the joint sos- sion of the two sots of Supervisors made tho sssossmont for o gross sum of $1,200,000. Find- ing that this was nat enough, they tlien assossod $200,000 more in bulk upon tho property of North Chicago, on account of tho * density of its population and tho superiority of improve- ments.” As a mattor of courso, this was alto- gother. irrogular and unauthorized, s woll as ridiculous, and would havo beon sufficlent in itself to nullify tho asscssmont. But tho Su- preme Court further decidos that the joint action of tho two sots of Buporvisors was unconstitu- tional, By making 8 joint assessmont, the Loke Viow Suporvisors wyore sesosaing North Chicago, and the North Ohicago Supervisors were assose- ing Lake Viow, aince tho proposed addition to tho Park lies partly in Lake View and partly in North Chicago. The Constitution suthorizes assossments for local improvemonts, but that is manifestly not a local improvoment which is located in anothor town. v Tho decislon of the Bupreme Court in this caso amounts to a postponement of the projected ox- tonsion of Lincoln Park, The only way in which tho land can be paid for 18 for the property of North Chieago to bo assessed ‘for that' portion which lies within tho limits of North Ohicago, - and tho proporty of Lako View to bo assossod for that portion which lios within the boundaries of Take View. The Park may be ex- tonded s far as, the limits of Ohicago, by makitg a new asscsament to pay for this much of tho land, Bat this isa very small proportion of tho proposed addition. The property of Lako Yiew js not ablg to. pay.for all that pact within its own territory, which ocotl: ples about half the townahip. Thero is only qno way in which this dead-lock can Lo removed, and thaf is by aanexing Luko Viow to Nosth Ghicago, This would'requiro & yote of both North Ohi- cago end Lake View, gud would bring “tho Park question in allits boarings diroctly before: tho persons interested—as it should have boen:in tho firat placo, MR, MARETZER'S PANIQ, TFow people will bo inclined to regrot that tho proposed oporatic season jn this oity bas beon’ indofinitoly postponed, Tow people will also bo inotined to doubt that Mr, Marotzek hes mady a vory orfous miatake in his hasty and ill-con. ‘| eldarod sotlon. Mr. Marotzok lias boen In this’ clty oftén enough to know that a scason ealo a’ vover indicativo ‘of tho success of a aeason, s 1t Is in most othor citles, The grost bulk of the racolts nro takon at the doorof the theatro on tho,nights of porformaune. A. emcconsful opon- tug night fs aiwaza, the best adveriisomont tor an oporatic troupo, and, had r, Mgrof mg and mado & favorablo impression ovoning, tho succoss of the woek would huve boou assurod, notwithstanding the extor: tiounto pricea charged, Iia socond mistake was in refusing fo naccopt the very liboral terms which Mr. MoViokor offared Lim ‘and was willing to pay rather thian aubmit to the embgrragsment ‘of olosing bis thoatro for two weoks, which Yo will now l;vu obliged to do, as ho has made his Gontvietp 9 tako i company with Miss Qush- maii through the provipgial towns during tho coming two’wooke,” o “term offered” him would have guarantesd Lim a ‘profit, and theonly objqotion mado way that, it Mr, MoVioker bought tho sapson, thio manpgomont of ff would fall futo his hsnds, . sud he, like any other prudent, sonsible mannger, would roduce the pricos of sdmission. Bill this was not & valid ground of objootion, inasmuch as the venture would atill have boon & paylug one, foans | Tho expcuscs Lave been mreatly aver-ataled. North. Lucos, Di Muroks, and Tamborlik are high-priced astists, boonuso thoy talkoe notonly large anlary but a porcontago of tho gross roceipts. Dut, with tho oxooption of these throo, the company 13 & choap ono, and Mr. MoVickor mado an offor which not only would have patd Mr, Marotzok, but would also havo ylelded himsolf something over the rental of tho thoatro, oven ‘at rates of admissfon 60 por cont lower than thoso schod- uled by Mr, Marotzel, Mr. MoViokor {s just ns oaroful and ekillful ‘& mamgor ns Mr, Marotzok, and if ho could take the company aud wmake monoy with ¢, Mr. Marotzok could also. Tho third mistake -which Mr. Marotzok hns mado {8, that, in throwing up tho prosent soason, ho has imporited Lis pros- poots for the future, Ollcago lins nover failed to respond most liberally to tho demands of opa- rotio managors, espeolally’ of Mr. Marotzok, Laat wintor, it saved him from loss by paying him an average of nearly $5,000 per night for two weoks, and ho wont back to Now York- with his pockota full of monoy,~a condition in which lio had nover found himsolf bofore. Notwith- standing tho siringoncy of tho timos and tho hiigh prico of tickots, Ohlesgo would sgain have given him o paylog sonson, if ho had lad the courage to ‘como horo, His rofusal to_como, evon with Mr. MoVickor's liberal guaranteo, will not tend to his advantago in tho future. The failure of tho scason suggests one vory portinont question : If'ho cannot como to Ohi- cago, whoro can he go? Hia season thus far has been .molancholy evorywhere, Tho New York musleal correspondent of tho Boston Ad- verliser writes : d Tho Maretzek Troupo mado s total faflure in New York, and thoy havo not bottered thelr fortunes in Boston, Your clty is not likely to bo any less fastidi. fous or any less dificult to please than oural And now I learn that Max s to rosssemblo his ragged co- Boris in Now York for a {ow nights, and then, having sbandoned his proposed domonstration at Olncinnati, 18 to attack Olifcago in forco, May ho prosper accords ing to his merite! But if Chicago accopts what New York aud Boston havo rojected, it will bo somothing new in tho history of American musleal enterpriscs, . What Marctzok's company {s, ycu Tostonians know, and are, I 500, protty much agreed, tho only difference of opinion among you being s to whothor DI Mursln. 1 an artist of tho firat or socond rank,” Luccs 18 groat, then; and DI Murska fine, wo will ssy ; and Jamet, ox- collent; and Tamberlik—what? Woll, s magnificent, pletureaquo, ivy-covered ruin, with the work of ths architoct still grandly shown, but that of the carpenter Sust tottering foits fall. And tho rest—mero leather and pranella of tho meanest quality ; with such s mel- ancholy spocimon of o contralto, auch feoblo tenors, such raucous, roaring baritoncs, auch # Lierd—thought sl enough, to bo sure—of untrained cliorus singers, and such a heltor-skolter, undisciplined orchestral’ Mr. Marotzok Lins prosumod to do worse ovon than his rocord of Inst year. i The result in Olneinnati is already known. In Philadolphin, two performances woro givon with half the company, and the third ouo was sban- doned for want of patronnge. Putting thoso facts togother'and adding to them his faflure to como to Ohicagd, oven with a guarantoe offored h[xli. anothor fact suggosta itself. ' It is possiblo that tho whole enterpriso is n failure, and, londed down with its high prices and the pressurs of the finangil crisie, is unablo 'to move any longor. This at Joast is o chavitablo viow to tako of the situation, as it offers tho only valld ronson why MrJ Marotzok should have refusod to come hero with » cortainty offored him. 5 Asitis, the: fallure is-not without its com-- ponsations, It leaves opora:gaers free to' go to English opera. They will save ono-half of what thoy had oxpectod to pay out, and probably en- joy themselves just 88 much. The Kellogg Troupe will bo hore in Docember. Ilad the Maretzok season beon givon, they wonld cortain- 1y havo beon crushed botween Marotzok in No- vombor and8trakoschinJanuary. They nowhave tho fld open to themselves, and it {8 certain thnt they will meot with handsomoe encourages ment and support. While it brightona tho sky for Migs Kollogg, it also has a warning for Mr. Btralosch, who is duo ‘here in January, Mbe. Nilsson hos npover, appesred horo in opers, and will be a drawing card, if Mr. Btrakosch has wisdom enough to profit by the lossons of his cousin’s fail- ure, 'Ho has)a strong troupe,—a aironger one, in fact, than Maratzek's, and he has abso- luto control, Thore aro ng prima-donns agonts in his troupe to add to existing dificulties by their mischiof-making. He has clear water shoad, if ho has senae enough to avoid the rocks upon which Marotzok has gone to ploces. GEN, BCHENCE AND THE EMMA MINE, | * A pamphlet haa appeared in London entitled # The Truoe History of tho Emma Mino.” Itis issued by My, I. T. Pafford, one of the English sharcholders iu this Company, and is an account of tho monner in which the scheme was floated in England, as' ascertained by the author ina porsonnl investigation. It has a spocial interest:|. for Americans, by reason of Gen. Schonok's cone neotion with tho ontorprise. Mr. Pafford claims that he has always been a cautious man, and has fought shy of -stock investments,” and that ho waa inducod fo purchoso sharesin tho Emma Mine by tho guarantes of Gen; Scliongk's name a8 a Director of the Company and o Trusto for’ tho pharobolders. To could not beliovo that the "Amorican Minister would' lend tho uso of hia x'mne {n sny ontorprise which was nqotto be fairly conducted and did not warrant tho prom- ises mn(_lé forit. MMr, Pafford proceeded, whon tho bubble had: burst, to collect evidenco ns to the qrigin and manngoment.of tho schome. Ho : claims to havo-proof that the mino was “galted,” and cltes n lettor written by a miner named Eddy, who was cmployed at thomine at tho timd Mr, Park was proparing it for the ivspoction of expeits; The cirqums stances detailed aro certainly suspicious, though by rio moani gonolusiva. A now, Suporjutondout wes: employed, and the working force Wag ros dueed from'100 to shout o dozen; 1o one Was allowed to go to tho mine wifhout a writton order; and tho enfrénco was guarded by srmed men, Mr, Pafford nlso ohinrgos that Prof, Silli- “mpn's remunoration for inspooting tho mino was 5,000 for making tho roport and $15,000 if tho sale to the English Company sliould go throngh, thoughi o aduils that Prof. Silliman may hava Bood dogelved by tho ‘snlting” oporatlon al- feady” ohigrgod, ' J¢' was then deoided to seoura tho name sud induence of Gon, Sclionclk éq Lolp the salo along ju England, As smoans 9. thig end, tho Houn. Wiltism I, Btewarf, United Btatos BSonator - from Novads, was firs onlisted, as Mr, Palford oharges, by a payment of £80,000 In omsh and 3,000 yendors' shiares, ** tha lattor remuneration bolug alao' for his valughla sorvicos iu Inducing Maj.- Gon. Holienok to Loooma i Birogtar,” Mr, Pat- ‘ford makow tho statomont that ho saw the &fil- davit of tho Amorioan gontloman, wliose name Lo d'q;aq ot give, in whioh the doponont swosra 2thiat, to bid vertala kugwledgo, Mr. T\ W, Park, 6 settling with Lis'o0-pastnera of the Naw Yok Emma Mino Company, deduoted the sum of $50,~ 0u0 as tho valuo of the shares held by Gen. Schenck, procisoly as ho JId the £100,000 paid to Mr, Albort Grant for succossfully binging put tho mine,” Mr, Grant was the man who under. %90k to float tho kobemo 1n England. sud My, - Yot this (1878) is called an “f off” yoar," and it Park aubsoquently admitted, In an oxamiuation befora tho Vico-Ohancellor, that £100,000 bad beon paid to Grant for his sorvicos. Cen, Holionek, howaver, in & porsoual i{ntorview with Mr. Paford, assurod him in the most solemn manner thnat bo wos a bona fide invostor, that ho had borrowed the money to put into tho: sharos, and that ho was o losor along with the rost. 1t Gon. Hohenok waa a bona fide purcheser of the Emma Mino stock, and was decefvod by tho roprosentations made to him, thia doos nok ro- liove him from furthor responsibilltles whioh Mr. Pafford chargos upon him. The prospoctus of the Emmn Mine Couipany, which was sdver- Usod far and noar, announced tho capital of tho Company to be £1,000,000, divided in shares of £20 each, numboring 50,000 {n all, half of which woro offered at subscription and the other Lulf rotained by the vendors. Gon. Bohenck was snnouncod, not only as a Diréotor, but ono of throo Trustoos, tho other two belng J, H. Pules- ton, Eaq., of the flrm of Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Qo., and Georgo Andorson, Esq. Tho daty of these Trustoos was to see that no part of the purchiaso money should bo paid over until the property purchased had boon duly transferred, The proporty offered for sale was described. as follows ; 21 i Caslt, belng thy balance of scerued profits re- celvablo from consignmonts of ore by the Yendora §o London and Livarpocl, smounting 1.0 £10,300 3,800 iond of ifat-claas oro, now being forwatd- ed to England, of the estimnted not valus of,, 10,000 8,000 tons second-class oro, now piled up af lnilnn for amelting thore, of the estimatod net valuo of...... &0 04,000 18,260 tous first-ciass oro, aiready dovetoped in 1 varlous parta of tlio mino, of tho estimated net valuo of ceetrevernsanyeanaenss S5T,T50 Mr. Pafford chargos that tho £46,800 cash, nannouncod a8 part of the property to be trans- forrod, was entircly flotitious; that, notwith- standing this, Gen, Bohenck and the othor Trus- teos pormitted the purchase money ta be paid over, and that the' cash itom was thon paid back out of the purchnse monoy which -had boen ro- coived The'gravamon of the oharga against Gon, Bchencl is that ho was guilty of a breach of trust while aoting as Trustos for tho sharohold- ors, : § Tho atatoment made by Mr, Paftord has tho somblance of having been propared upon oareful personal oxamination of tho faots in. the case. Thero is no queation now as to tho character of the Emma Mino schemo, and tho only point of real concorn to the Amorican pooplo is whother tholr Ministor at the Court -of Bt.:James lent himsolf knowingly tait. * Mr, Paford doos not bring such evidence as warrants the conclusion that Gon, Behanck's stock was given to him,—on the other haud, it has nover been olaimoed that- ho pald for it,—but ho doos show, if his state- ments are corrcot, that Gon. Schenck, having becomo a Diractor ip the Company and a Trus- teo for the sharoholdors, in disregard of his offi- olnl charaotor as Minfster of ‘tho’ United Statcs at the Qourt of.Bt. James,..did not watch.over tho interesta of the purchagcrs as ho might have donoe and as it was his duty $6 do. The role ho played, even'if entiroly honest on his part, was ono that should never have boon assumod by a' man in his positiou, and the result is highly dis-- gracoful to the American peopte. Gon, Schonck waa 16d into a false position aud humiliating sus- plcions by the greed chargotoriatio of tho ng'a and of tho Amorican nation, NOTES AND OPINION Tho vote of Iown for Governor and Lienton- ant-Governor ia to bo canvassed by the Legisla- ture-oloct, in January, and the charactor of. the roturus i not known boyond an unofficlal atate- mont that Gov, Oarpenter's majority is about 21,000, Tho returns for Superintendont of Pub- 1ie Instruction and for Judge of the Supremo Court hayo boen officially canvassed by the Gov- erpor and othors composing tho Exeentive Council, and the whole vato is-188,375, against 177,008 for Governor, in 1871, and 204,748 for Prosident, Iast yoar. Tho figurcs aro as follows: nepublican, Opposition,” Rep, maj, 1811, Governor, 108,801 67,647 41,254 1873, Presido 91,173 71,184 60,039 1873, Judgo . 24,731 106,267 | 81,500 1873, Buperintondent, 105,971 . 62,28 25,718 It should be romarked that the Qpposition totals for Judge and Suporintendent, this year, contain many thousand votes intended for Hall and Prindlo, but misdireoted in the initials or spolling of namos, _Thus, 22,000 votes intended for D, W, Prindle wore roturned ns for Pringle or Prindall, wjth various initiala.. The like orrors will, doubtloss, bo fourid in returns for Govor- nor and Lioutenant Govornor, The oandidates on the Anti-Monopoly Btate tickot baving had no hopos of elaction, no effort was made to securo uniformity in tho billots, much loss for ‘a gen- oral distribution of thom, The.large vots pollod, ond tho largely reduced Ropublican majority, aro, thoraforo, all tho moro "surprising; apd, takon with the fact that tho Opposition electod a mujority of all tho Tocal tickot ring-masters may woll be. warned' that they are, naw boasting of Towa for tho last time. Thero, no longer exists & 60,000, or even a 20,000, Ro- publican majority as an sbstract torror, and next yopr's oanvass by’ Congrossional Distriota:will | ehow if, s —The Davenport Gazelle (Administration)-|- statgs tho goneral poverty of the situation in the romark that ** Tho majority given in bohalf of the Ropublican Btate ticket shows conclusivoly that'Towa i# to-day moro thoroughly Ropublican thpn any other’ State in the Union.": Iilinois, Wiaconsin, ‘Minnesota; Californis, Kanans, Olio, New York, and Masgachysotts are somo of those ¢ othor " Btateg. e Stn¥ —Tho fall official vota fn niug countlen 6f Tliinols; for county officors, this yoar, is 317,870 ;- &nd estimatos for soven countioy britig” thetotal: up to 330,000: In the genoral eiéction . of..1870, witl John 4. Logan it tho head of tho Ropubli- can tolsotaa candidato for Congréns-at-Lirge sud also for tho, Sennte, and with candidates for Congress and the Logialature actively’ canyag ing thoir digtricts, tho wholo yoto was 817,180, i gaid the pooplo didu’t takg any intérest in it ; and tho Jllinois Slatd Jowrnal doclaron’s * Nob much,gan pg praved from the result of such a1 olection,” ¢ Not miich," purely, of comfort tq the Ting-masters of tho Administration. ~—{I'ho Dos Moinea Register and othor -Admin- isirgtion ofiico-holding newspppers in Iows are’ very busy making it uppear that there ayo five-or six Demograts olgoteq to tho House in tho Jowa Legislatur; that thoso five or six Lold tho bal- anos.of powey nu- boiwoon Grant-Ropublicans and’ Anti-Alonopolists, formerly Ropublloansy that the five or slx, it thoy will but: stontly up. hold tho Domocratlo bauner, muy b an fmpoye tant faator to bo tradad with in oleoting Bpeaker, Olerk, ‘ot ; ' that' it is tho common jnforest of phogo who would atill be Domocrats and Republi~ cang to mako p gommon ‘oaudo againkt ety party ¥ men who bave gpoped p war dn bojh Phoit hgupon ; and much more of the apwo sort, From whioh it would appaay that the originsl inyitation to Auti-Monopoly Republicana to come jnto the Grant-Ropublican coucus flnds no avseptanco, 0f tho late discovery, and bait to Demoorats, tho Davenport Demooral Bays ‘Tho poor, woe-begono, moribund Republican party in Io;u zqu J)u o0 come down frows {ta Lfgh eatato, when L hing t0 UifiID I8 Fuwars of apposition to couquoriive iaoluted Domiocrals, Whfle' it (B sn(lAfo. nopaly porty 18 Independant of eithier former palitical organization and mado up of mon from Loth, {t would try to throw tho apple of discord in ita midst by rais- ing an lesuo of which five Domocrats aru the subjeot, inia {g o smallor mattor than a party of suoh lofty }ml(il fony akioyl] stnop to, Of coursa it wili amount o nothing; boiug sbout Lwico aa silly ps was thoattempt to whuadlo the ‘hitherto Topublidan momberaof the Anti-Monopoly party into: the Admiulutratibh cancu; These aro but the spasmodio twitchings and dyiug kjcks of the yapidly siuking Nepublican mule, Jt'diss bard, und vomains mponitout, —The Now York Timesasks: ! Ifthe Ro- vublican leaders are wise, will thoy not take g tho Republican | hints twhile it 4s vl poasible?™ The DBoston Journal, on the aontrary, thinln tho Times L loglcal, too noutoly affectad by tho New York ate mosphiore, */ altogethoer foo ens ly dlsconrngad," and & number of othor things. *Tha Timus ad- mits too much,” 1t says ; '<'IL 18 too rendy to fure nish ammunition for its political oppononts, 1ts uEnum of plaln talk and ‘affected desira to point the flugor of warning, that the Ropublicany may avert o fato which hoa no other fonndation thay fanoy, would, perhaps, havo somo effout if gyg- tained by avgamonts of supported by oventy. —'Lho'lagt olection was oo of tho most ro- markable that Lina been held In Boutkorn lino for a numbor of yonrs, and {he rasult In the State ia about tho samo. .+ . . 'Lho results, in gone oral, aro noithor Républican nor Domooratio vie torles or dofents, but aro tlio offouts of a wish on the part of the Farmers totry thoir voting- strongth _indopondont of eithor” party. Thoy hayo mnde tho offort; lot us awalt tha rosults, —Belleville (11L.) Advocato—Adminisiration, —In our own Btate of Illinois only county elootlons wore hold, But in tho majority of in- stancea the Yarmors wero succossful, Had a Btato eloction Deon hold, the probabilities ara that tho result would bave boon tho samo as_in Wisgonain, The Farmors' Movemont in the Wost oarrios all boforo it.—Rockford (Ii.) Gazelle, —Au entirely new combination, comporod of membora of both tho old political partios, ia rapidly taking placo, whoso declared mission is tho safety and porpotuity of our institutions. Tho trond of thid now political glant will startlo 1ho dull soneos of tho opposition, and shnke tho nation as by an earthqualko, Partisan slavery will be nssniled by ronson, common kense, m moro indepondent. spirit, and by s highor and purer civilization, Tho strong arm of justice will honcoforth grapplo with vublio roblors st Washington as with burglars, horso-thioves, o1 }5‘,{,,,"“‘“ oriminals,—Al, Vernon (IN) Fres —The domand of tha times, then, is for & new political organization, and it scoms vory possible that it may grow out of the prosont organization of the farmors and Iaborers of tho Groat Weat for reform and purification. This movement in yot in its infancy, but that it is i““ in time ta {ill a gront popular domand, i rightly managed, tha Iocal elootions in thiy State, on tlie 4th juse, fully attost. L it porsovoros n tha free and Independant courso \llpun which it has com- monced its career, it will ba o grand succoss,— Oarlyle (11l.) Union Banner, —Thopeaple havo decinred themeolvos frea from party-slavery, and no longor heed the dice tation of interosted partisans, or mind the party lash. This election marks a new orain local politics.—Carmi (1Il,) Times. —It is propor that the fannors shonld have the honor of naming the organization which is to sweep from powor all corrupt men without dige tinetion of party, and put a stop to all oxtraya. ganco in public placas, and in private places 8lso, by it healthy iutfuonce ; and which will, by ostablishing coonomy. and enforciog striok honepty, anve the couniry from threntoned ruin, ~@rayvillo (1L Republican, —Tho Fariners' nnd Laboring Men's Antl- Monopoly party haus been victorious as a gen- eral thing {n tho Btato. It hus, however, oply startod upon its great mission, It hns many things to attond to that will keop it busy until tho noxt oloclion, whon it will again promulgate its vital dootrines, nufurl its flng, and maroh on to v.nuth,nr and a greator victory,—that of elagting jmombors of the mnext Legislaturo ond of Congress. . . . . ho farmera oud Inboring ‘mon have been idle oo long ale randY and loft othors to attend to their nlgnlns. Tho lnwa of acll-proscrvation demand that_thoy maka thoir groat influence _folt in ovory diroc- tlon.—Ford County (Ill.) Journal, —Tho moyement, is La spontansous remult of tho nocessities and oxigoncios of the timos, It is tho vosult of honesly ogainst corrmption nnd _extortion, of cconomy azatnst oxiravagance and ahiow, of justico against theft uud greed, and of qommon souso againgt-tho assumod infallie bility of party. It recognizes no mau or sot of men 28 loadors, aud regards principlos a3 mora importaut than men, Chis is tho true doctring of. reform.. The people’s porcoptions of right and'wrong avo intuitivoly correot. 1t lhas boon the. bane of our Governmont. in tho past that |- tho peoplo have too often been lod by mastor minds, and_in a'servilo adherenco to patty and mou, have dons ‘violanco ta thoir intuitive par~ coptions of right.— Carlinville (1l.) Democrat, —_—— "+ 'THE LATE ELECTION. ERinois, Officlal roturns havo now como in from ninetye fivo_ counties, whoso total voto Is 317,870, Seven countiss nre yot to make returns, including ono (Pope) not hoard from : CRAWFORD COUNTY, (Last gore—Geooloy, 1,053; Graut, 1,i00.) Iudao-Tom b Harpor L, 18 dameaon Susat Qo 0 witel izl 3t stinfon c, EX & 33 ‘reas.. 'm. Updik Bupt,~F, G, Bradbury. i BN (Last josr—Groeloy, 1113 armers. COUNT Grant, 1,E01) it James N, am. B, dolin Andortou, n High ‘ccas,—Harlord Bupt,“Blosson, 2 in 1Y, (Last yoar—Groeloy, 1,6:0; Graus, 3,¢64.) urniers, . seepudiean, Jud Jolin 8, Minman.. «Glor Frank . Wolta “Tcuns Bupt.. Ny, Lenple's, Judg Jotn It Sattorflold, £ Bhousb: W, Jocs S P Tharaiod, 1 oas,—8, W, amor ‘I'hoy N al Supt.—J. D, Willian son O Hardiog. 18 60 Auson O, Haed COUNTY. Grant, 33.) Desiaeratie, Jonoph 1. Pilishury_ 993 Anson Tromp 1,36 Jainos W. Clioa K. B. Davia, Milum A lkire WAREN QOUNTY, Grooloy, L1l; Grant, §,401.) dent, Repubtfean, Tlias Wi Wm. I1. ‘Saxton. Daniol O, Pacry. Jawes 1, Dond NEW YORK. Proposed Rcorganizantion of the fo= lice and Other Municipnl Rourds.s _T'ho Newspnper Exposure of Compras ‘ miscs with Smuggiers. i1 Special.Digpateh to Thé Chicago Tribune, New Yorg, Nov. 15,—A combined effort on the part of leading politicinns of Now York City and Brooklyn will be mado at the coming session of tho Legislature, to sccure tlo-abolition of various speoinl Commissions which exist in this city and Brooklyn, and which are indopendont of tho lounl authoritics, Theso Commirsions word organized during tho Iatter part of tho war| when tho Republichna wore 1n a msjor- ity in the Legislature, and the Democrats were “18 control 6f the local ‘governinent of tho two oities:” Ini oxder to supply plncos’ for dofeatod R onublican candidates, “ard to.diminish the powor. of the Domociats, the ltopublican Legis~ Intura. argoniz ed independont Police, Health, Chanrities,'and various'othor Boards, and placed them practically in chargo of the Covernmenta of tho tio oitiod, Thua tho patronago of the Mayor of Brooklyn was actuslly reduced to ona appointment ; and n Now York, at ono timo, the Derooratic 'y authority was very littla moro. Thigawaa i 1d, and is still held, to ba subyersivo of tho peopla's will as oxprossod ab the polla;: W'he powers of tho Boards have been oxtousivo,.aud, of lato, their ndministration bas bopn frightfully scandnlons, A movemont foy the abolition of these oards is n vory strong ne, and tlo ‘wnbjoct will be brought up in_tha Logislature’ immediataly on ity oponing. It i believad that {he attempt will bo suecessfal, nnd thm'cl 18 no question but that it will be extromely popular, % L - FR4UDS ON THE NEVENUE. ‘The dotoils of the methods of tho Oustoms Houso ofticials in concealing compromises with smugslery, tolegraphied yon Iiday, wore pube TheE hy'the Now Yorle Zfnne o Satusdag, and orentod . groat doal Of talk among tho mora chants and Inwyers, as woll ag anoug Governe ment . offcors, - It i & grout mystory how: "tha 1lut was obtained, Tho effort to &eo it has continued through two yoars,. .and i tho. liat wou finally obtained hrongh tho Dlunder of an ofiicer in the Uyitod §tatos DistrickAttornoyls oflicos, A lawyer wlig_exauihiod tho'lisl ll;‘g sluco nssorted thay hundrods of liko casey have Loy suttled by Qustom-Tlouse offfolnls withont tho kudwladiy of the Digtriot Attornoy or the United Statéa ‘T'ronsury Dopartment, “Tho spoolal ngents and Oustom-ITouso ofliclals “dounounco tho Distrios Attoruey for tho oxposuro, ——— CGRAIN IN BUFFALO, & Sidotial lém\nulbh ta Zlie Chicago Tribuns. urraLo, N, Y., Nov, 14.~Suturday pight, the amouwit of 'grllu r‘ngnrml!ln ulm‘)a hof;u\vfiu‘fi'}:-‘ gll)‘u, the umul:ea: quantity that wnt have had, &f iia goason of tho yoar, for a groat many yeass, Ouo-bulf is Rarloy, " (OF R € vy N e e PRESIDENT GRANT'S MOVEMENTS, Evizavgen, N, J., Nov. 16,—~Prosident Grang drove hore from Nowark this morning, and abe tendod chnral: with his mother and A, R, Core bin,: Ko Joaves for Washington to-nizht, ~