Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 1, 1874, Page 4

THE CHICA TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TENMA OF RUBSCRIPTION (FATATLE IN ADVANCE). atly, by 1200 | Huvday R it R Parta of myear at the samo rato, To prayant delay and mistakes, he sure‘and give Post ©8 coaddress In full, including Stataand County. Remittances may bo made olthor by dratt, oxpross, Post Oftioo ordor, or 1 regiterod lattora, at our risk. TERMA TO CITY BUDRCRINERS. Daly, dellvorad, Sunday otceptaa b conte por wank. Datly, aelivored, Kuuday Ineludad, 0 conts yor wooks Addross THE TRIBUNK COMPANY, Corner Madiaon and Shoarhornests,, Ubieago, Ml TO:DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. MIVIORKRS THEATIUE-Madison stesot, o earborn snd State. Kugagemant o gmupl. +¢La Tentailon,™ betwoen Livgard OLEY'S_ THEATRE-Randol oI Tasale. Tngromnt Olivor Twit Comody-Company, ADELPHI THRATRE-Comor of Wabmh ayonuo ana Cong troot, Varioty porformanco. ‘' Tho Forty T Attgrnoon and evoulng. Dot L XPOSITION [NG~Taknahoro, foot of Adume O st Aitamaga and ovouing: “BOCIETY MEETINGS. OARTAND CHAPTER, T A. M. _Sgocal gomgmyntc ) evenin, Tar work B *fis:;‘ofifl;&fi:;:za&\c\ly Tnvited. 108, 0. CLALLKE, T, P, Hall cor, Cottage Grovo-av. and Thirty-seventh-st. The Thicans Tiibune, Je=s-. TWodnoesday Morning, July 1, 1874, NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. IThough noxt Saturday (to Fonrtls of July) will bo generally obscrved a8 o holiday, Tae Tauuxz will b publishod, os usus), on Sundny. For tho secommo- dation of tho business communits, advertiscmenta for next Bundsy's poper will bo received at any timo Quring tho wesk, though the Counting-Room will b open Baturday 88 on other dnye. Tho Rev. Mr. Welles, of Red Wing, has mado known his intentiun of accepting tho Bishoprio of Wisconsin, to which ho was recently olected by tho Diocosan Convention. Ho bas had the maatter uuder prayorful consideration siuco tho clection, but thoro has been littlo doubt in Wis~ conain as to the result. Information has boon received from private pources of & sovore repulso sustained by the Duteh in their Achineso campaign, Tho report noks confirmation, and is not entirely trustwor- thy. It placos tholoss of tho Dutch at 1,000 Lilled and 4,500 wounded, oumbors which aro out of all proportion to the forcos that are likely to havo beon engoged. ] Tho friends of tho Hon, Lawrenco Woldon will prosout his namo beforo the Independent Con- vontion of tuo Thirteenth Congressional Dis- triot, He has consented to accopt the pominne tion it tondored him, and will, from prosont in- diontions, carry his dlstrict by nt Jeast 1,500 mo-~ jority. Thero is much dissatisfaction with Congressman McNulta in his own party. e This morning Comptroller Knox is under ® cloud, the rumor boiug that his construction of the new Ourrency nct 18 not matis factory to the President or Secrotary Bristow, snd that his dismisssl hes been dotormined upon. I tho moontime, the consclentious publie is enjoiued not to loso aight of the rumor about Fish, which was pro- ~ mulgatedyestorday. Somoproficiency inslolght- of-hand will bo required to kee oll theso rumors inthoalr, it any addition to thoir number is " mado. — Presidont Grant and fsmily will enter upon tho Summer Residenco at Long Branch on Fri- day, and on the same day Secretary Fish will go to his home on tho Hudson. Bub the Capi- tal will not bo entiroly deserted. Bristow stauds by his post manfully, and is ongaged in ovor- turning and correcting abuses in the adminis- tration of the Treasury Dopartment tha! have growa up Iu consequence of tho negleet or in- competency of bis predecessors. Hale will soon orrive, anddo o similar sorvice for the Post-Oflico Department. 8o there will not bo universal re- pose this year in the Government ofiices at Washington. Mr, Cushing has made s formal and porempto- ry demand on tho Bpanish Governmont for in- domuity on account of the murder by Gen. Bur- riol of American citizens included in tho Vir- giniug crow, Thero seems to be ot last a dis- position on the part of our own and the Britieh Government to press this maiter vigorously to & conclnsion. It is quite time that such o dispo- sition should bo manifeated. No regard for tho feeble and ridiculous pretonses of the so-called Republicaus in Spain should interfore with the vindication of natiounl honor against & gross at- tack, Yestarday was tho end of tho fiseal year in Washington, aud the time sot for the curtail- mont of tho clerioal foree in somo of the Depart~ mants, according to the approprintion Lills passed at tho last gesslon. Three hundred aud twonty-five women employed in the Buresu of Printing and Engraving were discharged. The press dspatches are burdoned with an ac- count of tho casualtios that followed. Tho statisties aro sad. Tourteon wom- en fuinted. Physicluns wore summoned - to sttond' thom, and thore was a scene of con- {fusion and excitoment such as Los no parailel in tho memory of the oldest clerk. Every man of humano feelinga will regrot the distress occa- sloned by the noceesities of the Government, but, it thore has been no unfair desling, tho nation of the Treasury Department cannat be congidered in its relations to persons, Tho fainting scenc, Wo suppose, will not bo Lappily rogarded by advocatos of woman suffrage, and those who contond for woman's ability to meot man on his own ground. The Ohicago produco markets wero irregular yestorday, with a largo businces, 2s is usual on the Inst of tho month, Doess pork waa active, and 100 per brl bighor, closing at $17.70@17.76 cash, and 817.02,{@17.95 soller August. Lard waa {naotive, aud nominally o shade ensior, at $11,05@11.10 por 100 1bs cash, and §11,15@11.20 soller August, Maats wers quiet and casicr, at 6%¢@034o for shoulders, $8.00 per 100 ibe for short ribs, 8)¢e for shors clear, and 103{@11e for swoet pickled hame, Highwines wora stoady at 94340 per gallon, Lake freights woro quiet and stronger, at Ho for wheat to Kingston. Tlour was dull. Wheat wan notive, and a shade highor, b 9117} cash, §LI113¢ soller August, and $1,205¢ tor No. 2 Minuosote, Corn Was very ac- tiva, sud 3¢o lower, closing at 693{c cash, 50}o geller July, and 690 soltor August. Osts were sotive and ateady, closing at 4134o cash and 413¢c geller July. DIyo was dull and unchangod, at 8fo, Barley wos innotivo and nominally un- changed, at 85@800 soller Sontombor, On Hat- urday evening last thore was in atore in this aity 1,004,841 bu whoat, 47,200 bu corn, 811,786 b aAty, 10,608 bu rye, snd 7,001 bt batley, Hoga wero active und flrm, with liberal salos at §5.60 @0.20. Caltlo wore dull and weak; ssles at . 82,00@0,40. Bheop mot with & light iuqulry at ' about formor ratos. In another column is given a list of porsonal- yroporty assessmonts for 1874 upon some of tho rolid mon and corporations in tha Weat Division, A statistician may find in those roturns mattor for sorfous study, Tho property of tho Wost Divialon Railway Company is assessod at $12,000, while tho proprictor of an omnibus lino doing ono-cighth as much busluoss makes roturns of $11,000. Tho West Division Compnny owns 200 cars and 700 horses. It {8 mot tisking much to say that its persounl property would bring four timos 12,000 nt publio suction. The People’s Gas Light snd Colto Company, which supplieb two-thirds of tho clly, and ia preity woll furnishod with the ap- parntus necossary for o groat an undertakivg, is nescssod §40,000. Thore is no Inflation in this. Porhaps it will bo as woll not to anticipate further tho plossuro which thonghtful men will tako in comparing tho surface Indicntiona of wonlth thrown out by tho solid mon and com- panios in ordinary times with the stato of affairs mado apparont by tho sssosamont lst, o ———— Hoventy-fivo porsons, of whom twenty were women, met at Bloomington yeslorday, formu- lated the principlos of tho Prohibition party in- Iliinols, and mado nominations for the State oftics to be tilled at tho fall elaction, Many of the priuciplos onnnciated are abovo “suspicion, aud so genorally talen for granted as part of tho ypolitical Constitution in America that thoir rovival at this time will produce no wido-sprond sonsa~ tion, Tor inatanco, the platform declaros that cltizons ehould bo protected n the full enjoy- ment of thefr rights, and that the Prohibi- tlon party ylelds to mono in it fealty to the principles of clvil and religious liborty. Theso solomn uttorances aro ovidoutly made for tho purposa of corrocting tho provalont impres. slon that the Prohibition party sccks to restrict porsonal liborty in & mannor contrary to the gontuaof Aworican institutions. Having yielded thismuch, thoresolutions continue at greatlongth tolaydown the real doctrin of tho party, declar- ing the liguor trafic to bo a political wrong of unequaled enormity, recognizing thooxpediency aud justico of woman suilrago, decrying vonal- ity in oftico, favoring a return to specle at tho oarliost day conalstent with ‘the interests of the mejority, and much mora that is good mixed with much tunt is bad. The rosolution of tho Ropublican Conventlon at Springfleld on the liquor quostion is condemued fu strong terms, THE CITY APPROPRIATIONS. The vory worst anticipations of the Common Council's final netion on thoe Appropriation ordi- nance woro realized last night, Notwithstanding tho resolution proviously passod by tho Council not to oxcoed s tax-lovy of 156 mills; not~ withstanding the unmistakable protest of tax~ poyors against an extravagant appropriation § notwithotanding tho essurance of the Complrol- ler that on oxcossivo lovy ab this time would dsmago tho credit of tho city and matorially rotard its businoss interests ; norwithstanding all tho presaure to the coatrary, the disposition all through was toadd to instead of taking from the amounts recommendod by the Finance Committeo on tho basis of a 15-mill tax, Tho additious were lnrgo and numerous, whilo tho oxcisions wore fow and Ineignificant, The exor- bitant increaso in the sowerage appropriation was allowed to romain, tho most of which, ag wo ghall progently explain, may not be devoted to tho extension of tho oity sowers whoroe thoy aro most ncodod. Tho §50,000 item for dredgig the river, which the Com- mitteo of tho Wholo rocommonded to Vo stricken out, was relvstated, sud wos o part of tho bill ns it possed. This item was probably of too acute an iuterest to contractors to be ellowed to fall out, Indeod, thero was a rumor yesterdny that vegotintions had beon commenced with a view to rotaining it in a special intereat—not, of courso, tho interost of thecity. Salaries were goverully iucreased, in- cluding that of Comptrollor Hayes, which was Qoubled on the positive sssuranco of tho Mayor that Mr. Hayes will rotain iy oftice on theso terms. Thoe ornamontal append- nge of & Deputy Superintendont of Polico was tacked on, and forty mew policemen were pro- vided for at an expense to the tax-payers of over $21,000. 'The bill a8 it passcd ruiges tho tax-lovy of tho year, on a round ostimato, from 15 mills, to which tho Council had plodged thomselves, to somotbing over 17 mills, And this is just what is to bo expocted from & got of men who, in the ‘majority of casos, bavo moro intorest in the tax= cating than in tho tax-paying procous. The most oppressive sud reprebensiblo fen- turo of last night's work was the appropristion of $600,000 townrd tho building of the Court- Iouse, which, as Tue I'minuxe predicted it wounld be, was sprung upon the Councll af the last momont. The praposition met witha vory cordial recoption, 1t Is true; but such a ro- ception Lad baon carotully prepared forit. That the §600,000 is appropriated nominally out of that portion of the Caual Ledomption Fund sob aside for roplacing the publio buildings of Chi- cago, doos not Lelp the matter atall. Though this remnant of tio Oanal Fund oxista theoroti- cally, it hag no actual existonco. Tho bill ro- funding the canal monoys (eomothing over 3,000,000, including aceruod luteroat) provided that not losa than one-fifth nor moro thea one- third should be used in replacing bridges snd public buildings, the balance to bo applied on tho payment of tho intorest om tho pub- lic debt and for the maiutensuce of tho Police and Fire Dopartment. Alout 82,000,000 were oxpeuded in intorest sud on the Polico and Fire Dopartmant, and something moro than $300,000 on bridgos uud public schools. This loft moro than £600,000, whioh was tho amount epportioned by the city to the robuilding of tho Court-House, In the urgency of tho city's neods, this sum was borrowed from the Canal’ Fund and ap plied to other funds. Thaoretically, thoso othor funds owo 8000,- 000 to tho Canal Fund, Practically, if §600,000 of the Cunal Fund is to bo ox- pended for robuildiug tho Conrt-Touso, it must como out of tho taxes which the peoplo pay this yoar. Tho 80 worage appropriation, for examplo, was inoreatad about ¥140,000, If the poople know that thls inoreaso was to bo appliod whore tho health of the oity domands au extons sion of tho seworago, thoy could perhups recon- oila thomuolvea to tho fucrease. DBub suppoas the Seworage Funud owes the Cansl Fund 3140, 007 ‘Chen the ©140,000 must go to iho Conal Fund, and from there bo pald out for building the Court-Youso, Thus, while nominally paving tho excess of tax- ation for some other purposo, we aro actually poyiog It for tho Court-Houss. On the velus~ tion of laat yoar, tho extra two milla levied by the Counctl lash night would just sbous yleld tho 8000,000 mot asido for tho Court-Hotso, It looks, thoraforo, very much as If the excess of tholavy had heon shrawdly estimated to reach the oxact amount appropriated for the Court- ouso job The fiunl passago of tho bill wes an almoat ox- aat repatition of au appropriation under Mayor Mason'a Administration, in 1871, The first vole oo tho final passage was not sufflofent to pass tho bill accordlog to law § but tho timo was shortand il were too much {ntereated in thomain fact of having appropriations to Lold out vory long, sud nt about 11:30 in tho even- ing tho ordinanco was pnssed, The lmit wes miduight, Tho Mayor signed it im- modiatoly, and apologized for doing so by enylng tbhat he would havo vetoed ft it there had beon time to go over tho matter again, This is just what the Counoil did not proposo to allow, Human virtuois frail when an appro- prlation bill s under comsideration and tho hands of tho clock point to midnight of tho Inat dny. Tho Court-Ifouso acheme was manifestly at the bottom of the whole ordinanco, and it was passed In the bad, old-fashioned way, which wo shall probably never be able to roform so long a8 tho progent syatom of oclocting Aldermen pro- vails, A LETTRE DE 0\CHET. By tho feat scotion of the law for tho sup- pression of mewspapors, rocontly smuggled thirough Congress by mon who have overything to foar from sn outspoken snd independont press, it 1n provided that tho Criminal Gourt of tho Diatrict of Columbia shall have jurisdiction of all erimes and misdomeanors committed in tho District and not Iaswfully triablo in any othor court, The Becond section recites that the pro- - visfons of the thirty-third section of the Judi- clary nob of 1789 shall apply to tho Criminal Court of the Diatrict of Columbia, A vory harmless thing thns bill roads like, No wonder it was passed. Thero was nothiug on ity faco to arouse suspicion, But tho offect of making tho provisions of tho Lhirty-third section of tho Judlolary act of 1789 spplicable to the Criminal Court of the District of Columbin was to pass just such alaw ag Mr. Carpentor wantod but failod to obtatn, We horo copy tho thirty-third sectlon of tho Judiclary act of 1789, now mado applicablo to the Criminal Court of the District of Columbin : §r0, 33, Forany crimo sgainst the United States (libel is mado such a ¢rime by tho act just passed), tho offender may, in the discretion of the Orimiual Court of tho District of Columbia, of & Justico of the Unlled States, or by any Justice of tho Poaco or other magls- irato of any of o Biotes whero ho may bo found, at tha exponso of tho Umied Blates bo arrested, fmpris- oned, or batled; aud coplea of process shall bo ro- turned as speedlly ss moy Dbe into tho Clerk's offico of sald Court, togother with tho recognizance of witncssea for thelr sppearance in tho cage. ‘Tho Criminal Court of tho District of Columbla ‘may requiro appearance, on pain of imprisonmont, 1f stich commitment of offender or Witness is made in ony part of tho Unftod States oxcept the District of Columbia, it shail b tho duty of the Judgo whoro tho delinquent { fmprisoned soasonably to issuo, and of tho Maralial of tho dlatrict to exccnte, & warrant for the removal of the offender aud witnesscs, or efther of them, a8 the caso may be, to tho ania District of Columbis, To illustrate the workingsof this law: If Mr. Carponter should repoat hia prouks at Loog Branch at o Washington botel, and s corro- spondent there should bint or make mention of thom, Mr. Carpenter, as the most effectusl monns of compelilng tho newspapers to let him alone, would complnin to tho Criminal Court of the District of Columbla and have tho editors and publishers sirested in Now York, or Ohi- engo, or San Francisco, and carted off to Wash- ington, at Government oxponso, to bo tried. In this mauner ho would seek to gag tho press. Of course, tho trinl for libel would nover come of, for it by no means follows that, bocauso a orim- inal suit hae boen begun, it must be brought to trial. But porhaps woshould not ascribo the au- thorship of this bill to Carpeator. Ho assorts that even his own gag-law was not Iutended to muzzlo the press. There is not & man in the United Statos who puts the samo intorprotation on that intendod law thet Carpenter does. Dus, then, Carpenter bad the cffroutery to tell tho good peoplo of Wisconain that it would havo beon a violation of his oath to support the Con- stitution of the United States if he had not takon his share of the back-pay grabl So we cannot alwaya tell how much wo should bolieve of what ho says. It isalitile straoge, if this last bill was in- spired by Carpenter, that the question whother it was conutitutional or vot did not oecur to him. By the Sixth Amendmont of tho Constitution of the United States, the jury that trios a man fora crime must bo summoned from the judicial die- trict in which tho crimo was committed, When | Charles A, Dana, editor of tho New York Sun, waa atrested under s warrant issued by » United Btates Commissioner, on o chargoe of liboling & Washington official, ound it way sought to transport him to Washington for tiial, Judgo Dlatchford treated tho whole proceeding with contompt, and ordered Dana's discharge; and ouly with contempt can any such action Lo treated by any Judge so long as tho Constitution of tho United States re- malns what it fs, Judge Cooloy, in his Conatl- tutionn! Limitations, approves of Judge Biatche ford's decigion, and, by implication, condemns the gag-low which passed both Houses withoub any knowledge, on the part of the membors, of what it coutuined, Speaking for one newspaper,” we wish to romark tbat we sball pay no asten- tion whatover to this lelire de cachel. It doca not amount to s respectable throat. It is o sgag,” fit only to grace tho boards of & miu- strel ghow, It will not scare even the Pout- Otlice orgaus of the rural distriots. [ ——— PAYING THE BONDS IN GREENBACKS. We publish another letter from Mr, Chorles Blnoldoford, of Bloomington, Til., defending his viows ln roference to the legal right of paying the 5-20 bonds in grecubneks, and also in refor- ence to the Nutional Banl question. Mr. B, says that the Independont party in Illinols havo taken no posltion i referonco to paying tho 5-20 bondu in greonbacks, aud that nobody suthorizod to spenlc for them has dono #o. That fsquito truo; nor have we assumed or afiirmed that thoy have dono go, It Isoxtromoly gratifylag that no party in this Stato has teken so untonuble and fatal o - position, Our wsrgument in oppo- sition to the viow that tho bonds may Lo legally puld in grooubacks was a reply to tho assumption of Mr, Shackloford himself, and was mado somewhat longer and moro thor- ough than 1t would otherwiso havo been, be- caugo the Indiang Yarmors' Cooveution did ox- plicitly afirm that polioy, Tho first point mado by Mr, Shackleford i8 that tho law of the 5-20 bonds made tho groen- baolis recefvable in payment for tho bonds the samons coln, ¥onco, Lo conoludes, that the ovident intendment of tho law was that they ehould be payable in redomption of tho bonds the samo a8 coin, T'bis s & pomt, Lo enys, that we did not disouss, Very truel 1t did mot ooour to us to frame an avgumont o show that GO DAILY TRIBU ESDAY, JULY 1, 187 tho words recoivablo and payable hnvo differant monnings In commercinl transactions, and that thoy caunot bo made to stand for tho samo thing. Nor I8 it nooossary to do 80 now. IfA glvos hin note to B for $1,000 and agroes to, tako tho amount In potatous **value rocotved,” 1t doos not follow that whon tho noto comoes duo o eatr pay it in potatoon, Againj it sooms o bo rogardod by Mr. B, as of soma consequence and of some bearing on the ongo that tho Bocrotary of tho Treasury was nuthorized o relssue tho groonbacks from time to timo, a8 tho public exigencios might require, Very woll ; that bas boen dono ; but Low doon it affeot the repaymont of the bonds ? Mr. 8. aays that tho Logal-Tendor act hns hoon snstained by tho Supromo Court, and that undor its declsion rallroad and otkor corporations hnve sottlod thelr obligations inenrred on & gold buels boforo 1800 by tho paymont of greonbacks, That s quite ireo, and etill has no bearing on the question whothor the Governmont can lawfully discharge an interost-bearing-debt by fasuing to its credit- or a pon-interest bearing dobt. If tho green- back 18 ono form of Governmont indebtodnoss— aud it appoara to Lo, from tho inscription placed upon it; viz., “Tho United Btatos Promise to Pay"—thon to tonder groenbacks for tho bonds 1a not to pay them, but to postpono the timo of payment, sud to atop the intercat moanwhile. This, if done without tho creditor’s consent, is what we eall ropudiation, ‘Wo do not proposo to chaso the National Bank quostion up hill and down dale again. Mr. Shiokloford propounds ono intorrogatory, how- over, that wo will endenvor toanswor. Ho wauty to know how Nationnl Banks in New York City oan declara 83 per cont aonual div- dends 'if their banking pnviloges aro not profitable, Wo nanswor that the privilego of issulog bank-notes is not ono of the privileges that onable thom to declare dividends of 83 por cent, or any other per cont, since tho most profitablo banks in that city have no clrou- lation at all, and thoso which have issued oirou- lation have ovly Jssued such amounts ns they wero practically compolled to by the National Bonking law. There aro some banks in’ New York City which bava been in oxistence continu= ously since tho Revolutionary War, aud one or two of them date back to o period antorior to the Rovolution, In this lapse of time they bavo nccumulated a lsrgo surplus—two or throo Himes thoir origiual capital—without bay- ing iseued any stock to ropresent this surplus. We beliovo that the Chomical Natioual Banl has asccumulated a surplus eight or ten times as lamge as fts original capital. That it should be able to poy divi- dends of 83 per cont per anuwm, or moro, onits apparent stock, is vothing strange. It would have dono &c all tho samo if the National Banking law hed never beon passed. In polut of fact, tho Chomical National Bank has no oir- oulation. It was roquired by law to invost ono- third of its capital in United States bonds. It did 8o, but never issued the uotes to which it waa entitlod. Tho President of the Importers® and Tradors’ Bank testified bofore o committeo of Congress last wintor that if the law requiring one-third of its capital to bo invested in bonda should be repesled, his institution would forth- with retire its circulntion, That law has now beon reposled, and weo presumo the Import~ erg' apd Traders' Bank i now in, the process of retiving its cireulation, as somo of the Chicago bauks aro, And we venture to predict that years will elapse before a8 much new circus lation will be ealled for ns will be voluntarily re- signed undor the oporation of the law recently passed by Congreas. THE MINISTERS ON BEECHER AND TILTON. A number of the Brooklyn and New York min- istora have boea Interviowed by the agonts of the press on the Beecher-Tilton ecandal, and por- ‘mitted through the newspapers to veutilate their viows upon it. The Brooklyn Argus of June 26 hns an account of interviows with the Rev. Dra. Storrs, Talmage, Budington, Cugylor, Portcous, Lyman, and Mr. Tilton, What Budington and Btorrs were golng to say about tho scandal, and what courso they would pursue, scems to have beon of special intercst, Dr. Storrs, having been Intorviowed by an Arqus roportor, showed him- self rather nou-committal. He confined himself to saying that he regrotted tho unforiunate phiaso which the complication had assumed, and that tho whole mattor was to him one of koen personal sorrow. What Plymouth Chureh would do in the mattor, or what tho neighboring church- o8 would do, be could nov say. Ho thought that not & momber of tho Council believed Mr: Boochor guilty, Both Dr, Storrs, and Dr, Bud- ington, who was noxt iutorviewed, relied upon tho lettor of donial writton by Mr. Beecher some timo ago. Tho Congrogationnl churchos othor than My, Deecher's could do nothing till thoy saw what Plymouth Church itselt would do. According to the policy of the Congregational Churel, local churclios had full controlof their own affairs, but the surrounding churchies had the powerof ‘*withdrawing followship™ from & cliurel who would ndhero to a minister whoso courso of life wau grossly mmmoral, If o church should rofuso to investigategravocharges against 8 ministor, it would then become the dutyof tho neighbortug churches to tako netion, Plymonth Churel, Dr. Budington thought, would find it necossary to invostigate Tilton's charges, Dr. Lyman, of the Contral Congrogational Clurel, bod “dormed no opinion" on the Beechor seandal. o thought it best that vory little should be said about the matter at atl, until Tlymouth Church Lnd itsclf taken some nction in the promises, That church, he was of opin- {on, hind & vory dolicato duty to porform. Thero wero othor clergymen in Brooklyn who might toll good many thinga I thoy saw fit; but ho wag not ono of the gontlomen who were postod on the subject, The Rov. Dr. Portoous said that Pilton had attended bis church the Sunday bo- fore; thot his worn-out appearance was the sub- Joot of ramarlc ; that his countennuco was very molancholy, Mr., Porteous did not then know that Tilton was cogltating over his racent lettor. Tho lottor iteolt Mr, Portoous considerod an emi- nently clover document' by o remarkable and raroly-gifted man, To commended sliko tho foronsio ability of the writer and tho ovidenco tho lottor bore to Tiltou's dolicate sense of hon- or. As o mon, Tilton could forbear no louger whon an aottempt wos mado to throw the whole disgrsco upon bim alone. Wuen Da- con had gono o far as to etigatize Tilton as a Lnavo and u fool, Beechor ought to have inter- voned and put a stop to his villiication of Tilton. 8till, the oy, Mr. Portoous sald that his estoom for Mr, Roochior was unshaken, When pooplo woro trying to heap disgraco and abuso on Por- teous, Doechior atood by him, and now ke wonld not say a word against Noechor, If Ar. Beechior bad dona anything wrong and ro- pouted of ¢, that ehowd bo tho end of it. It was only worthless convontionality that destroyed & man under such olroumstancos. Mr, Portoous evidontly doos not bollove 1 tho purity of men gonerally, and would havo bim who {8 withont offenigo cast tha flrat stono at Dooohor. Iodidnot take any stook in Mr. Bhosrman's nssartion, {lint tho lottorin which Bocchor writes that ho wislios hio were dead was forged. Tho Rav. Mr, Talmage, who had just roturned from the sen-side, rogrotted that tho mnttor was not nllowed to drop, and sald Lo would not like to oxpross himsol? upou the now phase of tho meandal one way or tho othor. What Dr. Cuylor Bald was to procisoly tho eamo offoct. 'Tho mattor should have boon al- towod to sloop. He and Boocher had baen nelghboring alergymon for years, and tho mattor wag to him, thorefore, & most delicate subjoot. o usod to contribute to Tilion's puper, and so would not eay anything against him, He thought that, when the ecandal firat camo to light, it should have been thoroughly investi- gated ; aud in this opiulon a majority of tho clorgymon of Now York and Brooklyn agreed with lim. 1t wae cortain, however, that tho charactor of some of the partics concerned was sure to bo bloated. Theodoro Tilton, on being Interviewed, sald ho would like to havo the name of tho man who Anid that Boochor's lotter wag a forgery ; and, inroply to the question whethor he would publish the roat of tho lotter, said tuat ho had printed all of it that would bo dolicato and proper to print. In a Bubrequont interviow ho afiirmed thint tho lotter was, ovory word of it, Mr. Beochor’s own composition,” and that the omitted part would, bo published it Mr. Beochier dosired that it should bo, From all tho forogoing it i ovident that Mr. Beecher's brothren of tho cloth are unsnimous that thoro is au affair; that Mr. Boochor ling done somothing very wrong; aud that an Invosti- gation into the charges made agaiuat him is un- avoidable. Tho position of Dr. Porteous Is vory strange, tivon if Boechur is guilty, ho would consider it worthless conventionality to condomn him! If morality wore synonymous with conven- tionality, this might be true, But this charge iu somothing moro than a breach of etiquette. GEN. BURNSIDE AND HIS RAILWAY, Tho Now York Tribune publishes the follow- ing paragraph: ‘The enemies of Gen, Burnsido scem to have opened o flank sttack upon him dbout ths Ume of tho Iate truca in the Senotorial fght fu Ruodo Island, Tur CiioAGo TninuNg dwells on olfegationa mudo in tho course of Mtigutions sbout tho Cairo & Vincennes Raflrond Company, that Gen, Burnslde, as Prestdent, mado o contract ou its behif for the construction of tho line, and at tho 8imo ima entered Iuto un arrange- ment with the contructors by tho torms of which tho profits wero to bo equally dividod betweon him and thiem, and thinks that sn oxplunation s desirable, A diapateh from Trovidence last uight says it 1s outhori- tatively stated that ot tho time ho mada the contracts Gen, Burnside was * the solo and absolate owner of every shate of stock of the rallroad, snd thereforo folt thut bobad a xight to mako such contracts 88 hio Ppleased,” H Whatover may have boen published in Tne Cmioado TRIBUNE respecting tho Cairo & YVin- conues Railway Company and its embarrass- ments bad no referouce to tho candidacy of Gen. Burngido for tho United States Senate, Wo would as lief Lo woro elected a8 anybody. Tho affaira of the Company, huwever, becamo a mat- ter of judicial inveatigation, sud tho pature of tho contracts made by Gon. Burnside, as Pres- idout of the Company, were stated as wo gave thom. Tho statoment now madoe by Gon. Burn- side—that ho wus ** golo and absoluto owner of every share of stock of tho railroad "—may bo true, but tho statomont will roquire somo fur- ther explanation, The road is mainly in the Btate of Illinois, and tho counties and towns along tho lioe were soduced into voting subsoriptions of their bonds, which they exchungod for shares of the capital stock in the Company. Thoso sub- woro ag follows : Amount. 93,000 Sin 4,50 95,000 94,500 14,01 16,000 . Town of Carmi Town of Grayvili Total, cenesaneriness SR Thore, may have been other subscriptions, but theso sreof record in the Auditor's office. Those municipalities wore, of course, original subscribors to the astock. Theso tuwns hold 608,000 in shares of tho original camitul stocl of tha Company, which thoy cortainly did not buy of Gen. Burnside, and which is part of the ariginal capital of §4,000,000, They woro origi- nal subscribers for over one-ofghth of the whole capital stock of the Compauy, and thoy hold that atock yet, aud aro likely to hold it for all time to come, Now, it may bo possiblo that Gon, Burnside and theso towus may have both been ** sole and absoluta owners™ of this half- ‘mitlion dollars’ worth, of atock at the samo time; but, in the absencs of an explanation, wo do nut undarstand how it could have beon so. Tho poople who subscribed for this stock did so houestly, relying on the good faith of thoso who wore mannging tho business. Thoy thought there was sowo bona fide capital {uveated beside what they subscribed, Thoy did not understand tho modern syetem of buflding railronds without money. Tho $11,000,000 represented by tho stook and bonds have beon spent, and the towns which have laid thomsolves undor theso enor- mous debts have only the certificates of certain ntock that hes no longer an cxistence, uoless, indeed, the Courts ehall explodo and set aside tho wholo fraud, Wo do not moan to allogo that Qon. Durnside's conduct was singular or pecu- linr, e only did what other railroad-builders did sbout tho samo time. But whon bo says that he owned all tho stock, o must overlool tho §508,000 owned by the towns and countios, which was probably the only bong fide stock in the concorn d A CHANCE FOR SECRETARY BRIBTOW. "The new Boctelary of the Troasury, although Dardly yot warm in Ius soat, has displayed many storling businoss quolities and o promptitude about his manner of dispatoling business which are peculinrly rofresivg as comparod with thio Jaxity and loosenosp, if uot ignorance, which charactorized lis predecossor., Ho also woems to bo tho posscesor of many of tho old-fashioned virtues which most efiiciats drop when they assumo publio duties,—those virtues, such a8 honesty, economy, justics, and squata doallug, being considorod of a private na- turo, aud uot appertaining to the oxecution of publio trusts. 1iis last movemont nims a direct blow at rings of the Loet & Btookiug cluss, Un- dertho operations of tho bill revising the customs Jaws, the cartage of merchondize i the hands of tho Governmont must bo Jof, aftor thirty daye' notieo, to tho lowest biddor. The Beorotary wau sbout to propare tho necossnry advortisemonts, when o becamo aware that a Ring had beon formod to securs tho curtage of New York, Bos- ton, and Baltimoro, with tho inteution of sub- lotting tho contiacts to third parties and packot- ing tho difforeuco. The Bocretary, thoroforo, quietly lusested & provision that no bid would bo consldored unloss the. individual prosentiug it would asipulate to pessonally suporintend and be rosponelble for tho proper excoution of tho co teact, T has hod the offect to smash tho Rivg aud to limit tho bidding to logltimate biaders, and it whil have the additlonal effect to hoad off the awarding of contracts to irresponmblo par- tics, ond probably provent tbe outragoous ox- nctions practicod by Lot & Btocking. This I8 good go far es it goos—and it goos & geod ways, 1t is speclally cbeoring, ss it indi- caion tho detormination of the Beoratary of the Treasury to havo overy detail of his Dopart- ment charactorized by honcaty and econowmy. This boing tho purposo of tho Beeretary, thore is no good resson why ho should not mnke a cloan Bwoep with his now broow. Whila ho is in the tomper of hioading oft ‘bogus contractors and coutractors' rings, thore is an oxcollent opportunity for him to try his hand on Mullett, Supervising Arclitect -of the Troagury Dopartmont, Withavery littlo troublo Lo may find out what Mullott knows alout con- tracts and rings, Tho records of Cougress will furnish him with some officnl testimony na to the manuer in which Mullett lots contracts in plumbing and rooflng. There aro womo facts about letting coutracts for elovators in tho publio buildings which need clucudation. Thore {8 & Job in counection with the new Olncinunti -Custom-Tlouse which 18 worth a little Inapootion, just to seo how & granite compauy 1n Maine can Iny down stono in Cincinnati for less por oublo foot than it takes to tranuport it thore. Perhaps algo thore are soma jobs about tho new Chicago Custom-Houso and other public buildings which 1t would bo woll to look nfter. Thore is a very geuoral improssfon abrond that overything is noc oxnetly as it should be in the bulding operations of tho Covernment; and that it would be an excollont thing to luveatigato Mul- lett a littlo, apply the plumb and lovel to him, aud see if he 4 square snd truo. It will at loast do no baim to look after him and not lot him run wild, and, a8 tho Secrotary has mant- fested o disposition to bring ‘up his subordi- notes with a round turn now and then, ho witl undoubtedly commencae on Mullett bofore long. As Mullott lins had free swing for a long time, it may pay the Secrotary to bo prompt aud thor— ough ; and ho might commenco with the roofing contract, which wag referred to the Becrotary of the Treasury somo threo or four years ago for rovision, but has mever beon scted upon. Au investigation of Mullett wiil convinco peoplo that the Sccrotary moaus business, and thut his zoal {8 not ail show. A GOLD SPECULATION, The Now York Bullelin sooms to have juformation which justifies it In inferring that there was n coincidence between the publication of the Jones memorandum and s largo gold specnlation by & banking house, one of whouse members i8 in intimate relations with tho Presi- dent, The facts given by the Bullenaro: 1, That on the 4th of June tho banker sbove do- seribed sold some millions of gold at sbout 112, 2. That on tho Oth tho memorandum ap- peared in thio papors, and gold doclined more than 1 per cont, and tho bauker becamo o largo purchinser 2t the reduced prico. 8. That thore wae & consequent profit of $60,000 for soma oua. 4, That tho memorandum wea extraordinary {n ita charactor, and set forth radieal views not proviously knows to bo entortuined by tho Pres- ident. G, That its publication was not called for. Upon these facta the Bullelin assumos a con- nection betwaon the gold speculntion and the is- suing of the Proeident's manifesto, But, bofore churging anything of that kindagainst the Presi- dont, it suggests that information would be de- alrablo upou soveral points, such ag whether the concurronco of the gold salos and the publica- tion of the momorandum Wgs one of those un- desigoed colncidences which do someiimes oo~ cur; whother the Prosidont is tho ouly porson supposably responsiblo; what was the exact ro- Iation to the matter borno by Somator Jones; and upon other Jike incideutal points, all sum- med up in the one question, wag tho Prosident, thio Sonator, or tho banker responsible for thp fold specutation, and was tho 950,000 divided, or waa it all kept by the sagacious buuker? Now that the musical season is ovor, several of the Enstern papers contain communications from growling individuals, comylaining becausa Mr. Thomas sud other conduotors ** intliot clags~ ical music on the unoffending public.” SBeveral communications of a similar character hava been written to e Onzeaco TRIBUNE in times past. To all such griumblers thoro is but ono answer, I¢ the *‘unoffendiug public” doos not like clagsical music, lsb it stay at home. Itismnob compotled to isten ; and, it it doos, it 18 simply impudent to mako any fuss about it, Tbat part af the publio which does not like classical musio lios ample opportunitica to patronizo the musio it doos like, Where one concert of claesical musio is given, & dozon aro given wilh programmes wade up of sougs and bal'ads. In this city, dur- g tho prozent eeuson, thore have been scoves of them, -Whereone pleco of classicnl mnalo is publishad, a thousaud songs and * protty picces” aroisgued. Whero one piano plava o pisco of clasbical music, o hundred are rattling off songs, polkas, ballads, snd cheap musio. There i no doficit of this kind of musle, It ia timo, there-, fora, that this nonsense was stoppod. Poople who don't want to bear a certuin kind of musio Dad bettor stay at home. Thoroadersof Deadle's Dime Novels might a8 well complsin of thoso who road Dicliens’ novels as for the adwirers of popular songs to complain of others who like somotbing batter, It s in bad tasto and alio- gether impudent. If no other musio were over givon, they wight have somo oxcuee ; but whero ballad-music {8 given s Lundred times mora ofzen than classical music, I suy ono has the }lg;’n. to compluin, it is tho admirors of the nctor, Thoy bave got o ghost at Springvale, Maino, who would dolight Mr. Wullaco, whoso articles In the Fortmghtly Reriew havo boen recently no- ticed in T Tnnuse. Mr. Warren, of Doston, u poworful physical medium, holds seances in o house at Bpringvale, aud not only produces raps and other spiritual manifesations, but the ghost Wimsolf. The Portland Press doucribes him ns tollows : Quicker sud quicker they come, and the sup- plementury siuddor diverts enols individucls uttene Hon toth doorway, whero, peeting fn, nd the dis- tinct autliuos of @ figure, clad i biuck, with face of deathlike palencsnt Tall nud wnujestic, 'gazing upon tho company it hosftates as if u four, then, galutoy courng, steadily udvancos, Nearly fndfstinet tracev of yiea und erim &re naticeabls wpon the face, and tho litter of tho byight Ulue eyen posiessca u dungerous Taccination, Tia stopa ure mudibio, se (€ with feot eu= canod fu silpperd 16 woro Nghtly scuniing about, The worat feature of this mystorious being ls s proclivity to hmt) stonos, which he brings up with bim from the collar. In o cornorof this cellar & murdoted peddler waa long ago buried, and 1t {8 presumod that it I tho peddior's ghost who indulges in the stone-throwing. Moan- while bo hus plenty of compuni ons who stick to the Kitchen, howaver, aud amuse thomsolves singing, Nono of thel bavo yot boon visible, but tho poddior’s ghost bias becn el by lurko numbers of peopls who sccompauy tho uiedium to this houso, —————— Lato Discovory. Al Jadles ana gentlemon should iry the new purl fed aud deodorizud compound cucor-unteofl projss tiou for the bair, eatled ** Morgo's Luzurens,” It fenly on olegant artiele, nad also b the werlt of stape iing tue huge front falifng off, Sold by nli druggist, uss Bubaauk, Bloveuson & Rold, Wholodulo Agents, kit i e o Qhickering's Improvemont. “Tho swaat, olear quality of tono front thoso now style planos 38 (he murvel of thoe duy, Rsed’s Tample of Muslo, 02 Yan Buroa steosl, © * WS EDUCATIONAL. Clags-Day at the University of . Chicago. The Board of ‘I'rustecs Discussing the Presidential Question, They Cannot Decide hetween Bur= roughs and Moss, Prize‘Omtions of the Junior Class. Commeoncement Exercises at tho Cone vent of the Sacred Heart. Concordia College. UNIVERSITY OF CIICAGO. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Tho Duard of Trusteos of the Ohlcago Univere sity hold n sosslon yostordsy at their rooms fa Superlor Block, The roport of the Law School and olhor departmants of the Collaga wero road and approved. A llst of thoso entitlod to do- groes, which are to bo conferred at Commonce- mont, was slso mado out. Aftor tho rogulur busimess had boon disposod of, tho question of TDF PRESIDENCY and the advisnbility of creating the now offics of Chancellor camo up for discussion. The re- porters, however, in tho actlon of Mr. Bcammon, woro denied the priviloge of: listening to the do- bates upon tho subjeot, this action botng due to on articlo which appoared in one of the morning papers o fow days ngo, which oxcited rome feeling, and it was thaught inadviseble to hava roporters present at what might turn into a per- sonal discussion, The name of Dr. Lemuel Moss was proposed for tha Promdency and wag warmly supported by one side, while the othor was equally enthusinsts {o in sapport of Dr. Burrougls, the sup. portors of the lattor deeming {bhat ho would not take tho position of = Chan- collor which the others offered; but which bis frionds snid was bonoath him. It was clnimed on ono side that Dr. Moss would sdd no ntreugth to the Collage, aud ono or two rofused to support him unloss he would pledge himwolf to get subscriptions to tho amount of 50,000, while on the othor sido it way nasorted that the selection of Dr. Burrowyzls would be the end of the usofulnosn of the University ;3 and that he could ba vindicated, If that was necessary, by 1us elaction a8 Chancellor, The debate, which was at times rather stormy, resulted in no conelusion, and tho Board ad- journed to moot ot 9 thia morniug at tho Usi- Vorsity, ——— CLASS-DAY. The Senior Class of the Chicngo University hold their opan-ir oxerciscs yestorday aftor- noon in tho shadow of tho ‘south wing of the graud front of the University building, on the lefe of the main entrance. Seats, bonches, and tablos woro liborally providod, so that the Iadies who attended wero amply sccommodatod, al- though many of the m-le spectators who attend- ed wero compelled to wauniain a porpeadioular attitudo. AN ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT Mr. Goorgo Suthorland, was tho fiet thing 1 ardor. It was well deliverod, and rolated chiefly to the business of *the iustitution durivg tho past yenr. The ladies of the Bentor Class wera afluded to fn complimentary torms, and the orator resumad his scat amid applause. Some excellent muslo followed, and thon AR, C. ¥, D. FISER with flowers and ovoigreens of rhetoric, and elicited frequent plaudits. Mr. Fieher promises to be & groat gun In tho art of oratory, A vory amusing paper on CLASS IIIBTORY waa read by Mr, L. H. Holt, who kopt the andi- tors in almost continual lnughter by iy racy bio- graphical skotcbos of the divers mombers of tha claes of 1874, whose names aro ag follows : Gilbert ENis Balley, Renne Ruuyon Coon, Jr., Thomas Edward Lgbert, Oharles Henty Day Tisber, Levi Herbort Holt, Robort Morgan Iro- Iand, Charlos Tillinghaat Otw, Gaorga Suther- 1«3{1. ‘Theodora Newell Treat, 8., Frank Jumos ilco. Alr, R. B, Coon, Jr., delivered & very artistio address on the power ot langusge, which was well receivod. - AR, G. E, BAILEY fllustrated, with adwirabla cartoons, the gitt ot # Propliecy,” and showed himsolf to ba & formid» ablo rival to Nust. iR G0OD NOY'Y SURPRISE,” & very humorous production, wes admirably ronderod by Mr, T .. Egbert, who, as a come= dian, boso off the honors of tho day. 301, C, T. OTIS delivored a vory graceful valedictory, fn_which lio foolingiy aliuded to the very many pleasant days apout by the class at the old University, and hu{md that, in the busy walls of lifo, the comrados of the Collego should meat again and continue their friendsip, soNas, The following songs were thon rendered by tho entico obuw. sccompaurod by tho orohiestray, aftor which the procoedings terminated : Came, clasemates, lot us joln once more Our wolcome frlens to greot, Aud clasp tho trembling haud, bofora Wo part 1o mora to icet, Boforo we yart, welll all units, ‘T ufl this bappy hour; And let our song tio fumo prolong Of rure old ¥4, Gronus—0li 1 rare old T4, TUy nowe we now adore: Wo love thes yat; we'll ne'er forgod Tli6 namo of . Wo staud upon tho outor atop Of Almn Mater's hulls, Aug buckward cat a parting giancs At aur chorlshed cluasic wulla, Aud now our collego task 13 douo, Wo muy no louger siay The race In run, the prive is won, “We launch Gur boata away," Cionus—~0h} raro old 74, And whon {he sun of future years Slull lizht our tollsume way, We'll clitish still tho Joyous timea We celebrate to-day, Away with melancholy, thea, ‘Ani cato and 8oFrow sora ; Our fuir ouch then will praiss tho ten,— The ten of T, Cronus—0h 1 rare ald 4. R, B. 0, Ia, TARTING AONO, College days for us &ra o'ty Boou we purt to meet no morey But wo grleve to sundered Ley ‘Al Mater, fur from thoe, Taroeat Mother, ever trus, Soon thy balla we'll bid nll!an; Ty wo ne'or farpet thy love; Of ‘thiea aver worthy prove, Like a droam thess daya shall be, Ticwsed memory, kopt by theo, Throngh the years, you, overmore, ileyou duyaof 74, Classnmnten! clieorod by friondahip' Ughd We linva glimbed the di m‘y holght; Now whatover lot we find, Ay thowo cords furover bind, Then to-day a pledgo we glve Thnt througl all the years wo Hve, Lioyad, wn i1 lave of Sore, e will prova to 74, —_— THE JUNIOR OLASS, In tha evemng, Junor aratious, for prizes, wore dolivorod, at the University Placo Baptist Church, Benator Doolittle prosiding. ‘Thoro was wvory larga attoudance of fashionably-attired ladios snd gontlemou, Some excollent musical &olections wero renderod by tho Glos Olub, led by Joe Hubbard, of the Post-Ofiea, after which a very ablo address on tho **Charactoristics of tho English ™ was doliverad by . 3k, NOUANOU, a native of Diurmah, who has beon & studont at the Unlvarelty dueing fous yonrs, Tho Burmese wontloman shiowed that lio wua possessod of oxe collont powara of obsorvation, snd e Inngulho, » for & forviguos, wes roally admivable. %54 dalivered his * Joy Oration,” which was replets