Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1874, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, AUGiIs'If 17, 1874. e e e e e e e | TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, * RATRA OF AURACRIPTION (FAYABLE IN ADVANOE) 1l p Daily, by m: S SN 2,53 R 001 Sinen S50 Partnot n L the sAInA TALO. ‘To yrosent dolay and mistakes, bo anre and glvs Past O ceaddresn in full, fucluding Stato and County, Eemittauces may b maio odthor by diaft, oxpross, Poa ©fice uidor, ox 1n roxiatored lotters. b our risk. TEIMA TO CITY SULACHANE] Daily, delivored, Sunday orcoptad & conts per wosk, Datly; olivorad, Sundoy included, 30 conts par week. Addioss TUE TRIBUNK COMPANY, Curtior Madison und Doarborn.sts.. Uhicago, Sil TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VICKER'S THIEATRIZ—Madleon stroot. botwoen Dourborn and State, ** Olelltzation.” ACADEMY OFF MUSIO—Hinisted atreet, botweoa Mad- Json and Munroo, Engagewont ot Sohumann's Transat~ Iantlo Novelty Compauy. HOOLEY'S THRATRE~Randolph streot, hotweon Clark and s.a8allo. ‘¥na treat Adeipit Jompang, Ml strolyy, Faroo, and Varisty. e SOCIETY MEETINGS. GARDEN OITY LODGE, No. 1, A, T, & A, Tho mombors of nrdam City Lue 850 efeby ol T et el Mothorroon, Grlontal fall, ng 13 ERoloeit e On Thorny, AuRs 1 oF tho' Wirpise of Siicming th tamoral af. e iato Leorior, eney Lupk Truoral £y sncingta Waldiin fand,“roilizon of r lodgos Tratornally luvitad o atten 8 A" 3. UiimasoN, w. m. The Chicage Tribune, Mondsy Morntnz, August 17, 1874, It must havo beon hard for Lord Dufferin to bo parted from Biayor Colvin aud the Aldermon over Bunday. o ———— Tho Rov. Dr. Dundy witl b startiiug the world ono of theso days by sayiug that ho will ‘*stop down nnd out,” if such a courso is necensary to tho wounded happiness of Brother Thomas and tho rest of them, Commiseionor Jones will doubtless make & note of it, that tho nowspaper which had de- votod porhaps twonty columns to proving him o thiof, could find room only for the concluding paragraph of his dofenso. Every four yonrs tho Mothodist Genoral Con- foronco electa editora for tho ofiicial organa of the Church. So Dr. Edwards must mako the most of his opportunitics whilo the lamp Lolds outtoburn, Thero is overy reason fo lolievo that the onc-term priuciple will be applied in bis casa with hearty good-will, O + Ono of tho most persistont inflationists in the country is the gentloman who fills tho “ Cur- roncy * column of the Detroit Free Press. Iis humor, untike that of othier inflationists in the Wost, las the merit of Loing dosigned, Tho mide-oplitting jokes of tho ofieml orgaus aro ulterod ns grave dissertations in politieal econo- my, but tho Detroit mau pretonds to bono wisor than La is. Ot courae some lecturing must como ot of tho Beechier scoudal. Moulton is yaid by ono of his frionds to bo an inexporioncod writor, 80 ho 18 out of tho question; but the peaple muy turn for consolation io the two persons chiefly con- corned. Thoy ean lecturo; though, when tho truth i known, one of thom will have troublo in ronting respoctabla audienco-rooms, The apparent success of Prosident Hinclley, of tho Wilmington Rond, in his deatinpswith the authorities at Washington, hing encouraged the ofticials of soveral other ronds to demand eddi- tional pay for drawing tho postal-cars, Tho Government may stond firm, and fear no evil congequences, Just now tho railronds havo fow frionds among tho people. There iu only & sonse of justico and maguanimity to intorfero on their Dbohalf, and this stato of mind doos mot provail in the Wost this year. @1, Doochor's statemont has bad Tittlo efsot uapon tho nowspapor tribunal which has hio easo on trial. Thoso papers which defended him be- foro, still defend bim; thoso which inclined towards Tilton, and those which ondeavored to remain noutral, are unchanged. The only New Yorl papors which have beon willing to concedo that Mr. DBeechor's guilt may possibly be cotablished, nre the Zerald aund the Times; aud it is noteworthy that theso jaurnals are not by any means convinced by the statomout that he is innocent. It is o very sig- niffeant circumstanco that the statemont has producod so small an offect, ono way or the other, upon public opinion. It sooms to have turown oversbody into suspense, and to Lave suggostod o genoral ery of © What noxt?" A vory preity rovelation of the principles which govern tho average religious nowspaper bug been made in the course of the Deocher iu- vestigntion, Thero wero soveral of them in New York standing on perilous ground, and all ufraid of being *‘knocked higher than o kito,” along with Alr. Beechier and tho “Lifo of CObrist.” The managors of such moral institu- tions might reasounbly bo oxpected to sink tho shop ruther than suppross the truth; but,ns o mattorof fact, thoy accepted the lattor horn of the dilomma with groat alacrity. All this is vory #ad; almost as uad s tho course pursued by tho roligious pepors in Chicago, which Lave fnsured their own existence by surrondoring thoir adver- tising columne to quack doctors and Cheap Johne. After all, it may bo that thesword of **CHdoon™ ia mightior than hispen. It iy o toss-up bo- tweon the two. Neithier lins beon dwsplayed to good edvautage, bLecauea neither haa Leen ex- orcised exclusively in its propor flald, “ Gideon ™ a8 often sa not atabs with his pen and writes with bis sword, Xe murders purity, propriety, and preciagfon with eithor ; he has dono torrible ox- reution to the English language aud to tho feol- logs of dalicate women with bath. Yet ho was put to rout by an umbrells in tho handa of & resoluto man, It was ‘ Gideon” who hastcued the death of Gov, McOook's wifo; and 1t was 4 Qdoon " again who wroto in doad earnost ‘the ridiculons parsgraph about Lismalago and tho rost, which Lss boen copled in tho funny columns all over tho land, Tho Chicago produco markets wore irropufar on Baturday, with move doing u grain, Moss porlk was quiot, and 40c per brl lower for dash, at §20.26@23.07%¢, and flem fior the yoar, at $16.75@10.80. Lard wae In fuir: domand, and 250 por 100 1ba highor ou seller tke yoar, oloslng at 10.056@11.00, and firm sl &14.75 cash. Dloats ‘were dull and ousior, at 81(@83go for shoulders, 1U4@11 %o for whort ribs, 11817120 for short cleur, and 18}/@18%{c for woote pickled hatns, Highwines wevo less notive and -firm, at 076 per gallou. Lake frolghts wero in light request, aud flrmer, at 8o for cora to 1juffalo, Flour wao doll and unchanged, Wheat was moro act- ive, and unohanged, ocloelng wi 1,04 cash, 14,003 sellor tho mohtl, and 004 {o for Beptom« bor. Corn was in moderate domand and stordy, olosing al GG}ge cash, and 043¢ sollor Soptom- bor. Onta woro quiet and enuler, closing at 87 cunh, and 360 soller Seplomber. Ryo wan quiet ond stendy, at 72¢. ‘Barloy was activo and woal, closing at 02 sollor Soptomber. 1logs wore Iairly notive, aud sales wore roportod at 36.26@ 8.26. Cattle woro quict and nlendy, Sloepworo in fair domand, at £3.00@6.00. A meoting of cilizens in tho Sovonth and Eighth Warda was held yostorday, at which thore wny some flaming tulk In opposition to_tho pro- posed oxtension of the firo-limits, Mot of thoso prosont could not buy a bundle of lath if the fire- oxdinanco wore repesled to-morrow, and of tho vomninder, many slrendy hove houses built. Probably not one man in tho mooting rogard- od tho fire-ordinance ag s personal grievance, Tho agitation was for tho bonatit of some fow Conumuniats, who got an opportunity to apeal. ‘The gentiment of tho meoting waa purely Com- munistic, being in affect that tho endougering of rich mon's proposty by tho bullding of puor men's dwollings is in tho natursof componsation for an uunatural inequality in condition. Tho following card was addrossad to tho New York Associnted Press by * Gath," and printed in the New York Tribune of Friday last: SAnATodA, N. Y., Aup, 13, 1874, 3y tallz wilh NIr, Moulton was held Just Baturday, not Sundoy morning, ot 11 or 12 o%lock, Errors mny Tiava erept fnto the teicgraphlo transmission, Tho i torvlow was nu printed, soversl things belug left ‘out colored. 11 my duty as you would expoct oo of your agonts to do his, Why do you not got Moulton fo devy that interviow befora you discredit 14?2 o dozs uot, Mo will not, Mo eannot: nor whli I be an- other burat-offeriug to Bacehier. Gro, ALTnzD TOWNSEND, Mr. Townsend went to Now Yotk uuder in- structions to eliclt facts; niid os yet, in spito of tha abuso hoaped upon him for nccomplishing for "' PrinuNe what other vowspapors failed to accomplisy, wo bLavo scen nothing which would jndicato that o bad violated his instruc- tions, | servicos of tho Into Bishop Whitchouso wero prenchod at most of the Episcopal churohos in this city yostorday, Wohave beon nt somo pnius to givo thesnbstanceof Lho most significant ones 1mour columnns this morning, At the Cathedral, siugularly enougl, no sliusion was mado to the ovent which above o1l others was in tho minds of thoe presont, but instead, a dlscourso on the Judgment was delivorod. The themo was not unbapplly chosen for the occaslon. 'The Rov. Dr. Do Kovon, of Racino G 1iege, pronched tho sormon at St, Jawes Chureh; and Mr. Mal~ villo W. Fuller, in the abscnco of tho Rector, mado some appropriate remarks to tho cougto- gation of Bt. Mark's. Drs. Powors, Locko, and Sullivan occupied their owa pulpits. Taken al- {ogother, tho sormons and parts of sermons pub- lishad 1 our celumus constitute n valusblo con- tribution to the listory of the diocese, and will for this reason be highly accoptablo to churche men in all parts of tho State. Tho Franch have & commondablo way of deal- ing with swindling managers of joint-stock com- panios. Merga, Collot-Moygret aund Loualt House Company of Naplos, They had & capital of 6,000,000 franes, divided into 12,000 shares of 500 franca cach. In June, 1871, tho two mana- gers mentionod abovo made up an erxonoous bal- osnco-sheot, oud ab tho genoral meeting of the Company in Novembor of the same year do clarad that tho Company bad a surpius of 2,000,- 000 franes in order to psy eurrent cxpeisos and tho intorest duo on tho mortgage-bonds which hiad boou issued to the public. Au examination into tho condition of the Company showod, how- ovar, that, instoad of having o surplus of 2,000, 000 franes, thora way o doflefoney of mora than 5,000,000 fraucs. Instead of considering this u smart operation or sllowing thoe swindlors to decamp, thoy wor arrested, sud huvo just boon condemned to two years' imprisonment and o flua of 500 francs cach. **They do these things bottor in Franco." The Atlants (Ga) Herald sunounces that Toomby, the anti-war Senator from that State, bas refuged an olection to Congross, Io thus oxprossed his refusal : T binte tho Governiment of tho United States, and ‘would give my life to overthrow it. Ileuce, vir, a¥ o geutlewan, T could not accept oflico in its sorvico, It's o question of honor with we, I hute the Government, und I despleo its disciples, I would not sit with the Imen who are nt present i Congress, Ho sorved in Congress twenly-fivo yoars and proposes to stand on that record. Ilis record in the two Houses may Do of a charaotor to planee Lim, but,to the majority of mankiud,it s not very creditable. o was principally re- markablo 08 o ranting, roaring, bullying doma- gogue, who nover originated & measure of prac- tieal yalue ; bad no testes for business or work'; wns eminently disgustingand offousive in dos bate ; was suporcilious towards othors, and was rvogarded in veturn with contompt. 1f Lis ro- turn to Congraes Was to bavo tho effeot of add- ing moro of that kind to his rocord, ho docs woll to atay at home. Jagper D, Ward, Xopresentative in Congross from thio Wast Divieion of Chicago, was one of the special Congressional Comuittes appointed to luvestigate Arkaneas affalrs. He went on that servico sovoral weoks ago, and on his roturn to this city was ask- od by & voportor of tho Inter-Occan for o coudid opinion, of tho situation in Arkansss, The intorview aa publishod ropre- sonted 3r. Ward as befag convinced of tho gon- oral holinoss of the Ropublican causo, By somo necldoni o copy of the Infer-Ocean ponotrated to Arkangsag, and the intorviow referred to was widely commouted on. Oue gentloman chose to suspeot tho nowspapor-reportor of tovgiversation, and wrote to Mr. Wad for the truth. Then it camo out ibat a park of tho interview In which tho strong argumenta for the Domocratio sido had beon statod wan sappressod DLy tho editor of the Inler-Ocean. Itis o remark pertinont to this transnction thnt the *cardinal decluratlon® of the Inter-Ocean is ** Indopond- out in nothing;" whon, if tha truth woro known, that journat fa quite indepondent of facta that conflict with tho aupposed Interests of tho party. Whilo all othor parts of tho connty are gom- plafuing of dull business and financialombarrass- ment, Culitornls soems to bo on the high road to prosperity ond wealth, The San Franclsco Tiudletin gives o8 o envoful oatimate of thowealth creuted this year from agriculture tho following tigurea: Coroals, $50,000,000; bay, wool, wino, fruit, snd dalry, 818,000,000; miscollancous itoms, £3,000,000; total, $71,000,000, Tho pro- duct of the mines will bo about §20,000,000, and of lumbering and manufacturing, $10,000,000; making o tolal of $101,000,000, to which must be addod the wagos of tho laborlug-classes and profity of merchauts, Out of tlly smount, the Dy me on judgment, Nothing was pervertod ; nothing. yecontly atart¢® tho Markots and Slaughter- | Bulletin thinks tho not gain to Callifornia will bo nbout 50,000,000, BUGGESTIONS F¥ROM BEECHER'S STATE- .+ MENT. It {8 but fafr to romembor that Mr. Boochor has conatantly had an advantago, and that Mr, ilton has constantly boon at o disadvantago, in tho controversy bobwoen thom. Tt I not necossary fo onter into the details of their rolations to enoh other und to.the publio In ordor to prove this, It ouly need be recalled that whon Mr, Tilton made his sworn statemont boforp the Investigating Committeo, it was pop- ularly recolved with suspicion, and it was sub- jectod to tho most critical and searching ex- amination, Tho people of this couutry folt liko resouting tho susociation of such charges with tho namo of Hoory Ward Boechor. On the other band, BMr. Beachor's unsworn statomout before the samo Cotnmittes, though dolayed six weoks and mude up aftor tho prosocution oomed to have ox- bousted ite resources, hns beon roceived with somothing like full return of thoold confidencs in 4Ir. Boccher’s honor. 'Tho rocoption of the two statoments shows a very gouoral feoling on all sidos that it was only necessary for Mr. Beccher to speal in order to cluur himsolf. Bub 1t 18 not wall, and cortalnly not just, to give way to such unbounded confidenco as this, It suvors too much of superstition and idolatry. Aud, oven if such.s feoling might he on~ couragod for tho bonofit of Alr. Boocher, It khonld pot be permitted to force Alr, Tilton un- der the wheels of the Juggornnut, It would bo straugo indeed if Mr. Boecher, with all his ability, tho carofuluess of his preparation, tho astulonony of his counsol, tho stendfastness of bis frionds, nud with full knowledgo of his ac- cusor's ease, should not bo nblo to mako a state- motit that would commend itself as plaustblo, Bul it would bo illogical and unjust to couclude, on that account, that it is final. It s its weak | places, 1. The Theory of Blackmail.—Though not statod in g0 many words, Mr. Boecher chargon Moulton and Titton with blackmailing him,— the formor with having dewnnded 87,000, tho latter with Daviug ehared it It is not emsy to beliovo that Moulton was a blackmailer on his own account, einco ho is o man of privato fortuno aud prominent businoss connoction. Eson it ho wore n knavo, tho st of §7,000 could searcely tompt & man of iy position and moans to throw himsolf nway in g0 lown business, As to Tilton, Mr. Beocher adduces no evidenco that ho received one dollar of this money; on the other hand, Mr, Tilton declined to entortain s proposition that ho should take monoy to go to Lurope witi his family, 88 Mr. Carpontorean testify. But, if M. Beochor was blackmailed, why did ko submit to it? Cortainly mot becouso ho advised Mrs, Tilton to leave her uusband, and he him- golt snys that he had not heard at this timo of the chargo of adultory. If thero Las beew suy blackmailing, it unquestionably weakens tho evidence of the man who has prac- ticed it; but it likewlse leaves a staiv on Br. Beeoher's reputation which his bost frionds will wish might bo blotted out. 2, Mr. Beccher's Confidence in Alowlton,—A ro- marknble and a8 yot uuexplaiued inconsistency is apparout in. Mr. Beechor's rolations to Mr, Moulton. Ilo stntes thot he first mot Moulton in Page’s atudio whon he was sitting for bis pic~ ture in 1868, hiore could have been no intima- cy botween-them for two yoms after, for ho also states that ho had mover entered Moulton's Tiouse ttutil tho night when hio wont there to meot Tilton, and. saw Mrs. Tiltou's *confes- sion,” The vory noxt day aftor Mr, Beechor's firet vislt to Aonltop’s house, Moulton visite Beecher, sud, ot tho point of tho pis- tol, 8s Docchor gays, demands tho re- cantation which Beecher had moanwhile gocured from Nlrs. Tilton. TFrom this very momont on, Mr, Beocher treated Mr, Moulton s the bost and truest friend he bad on carth, con: fiding In bim a8 ho would have confided in no"| othor, and revenling to bim theinucrmost depths of his sorvow and gladnoss, Wo have Mr. Boocher's word for all this, and must couclude then, if we admit Mr. Boocher to be consistent, that tho best way to securo his friendahip and confidenco is to approsch him with a loaded re- volver, aud ns tho epecial friond of the man from whom ko Lus most to fear. 8. Hercditary Ifypochondria.~=Mr, Boocher re~ itorates throughout his statomons and cross-ox- amination tbatha s unablo to oxplain many of his extravagaut ozprossions of romorae and do- spair, and says that this is oll a muddle to bim. The only characterisic which bo citea as likely to acounnnt for theso oxprossions ig n tondenoy to bypochondria which he olaims to bave inhorited from his fathor and grand- father, Wo submit it as straugo that this con- stitutional tondency should never have boen dis- covored by his most intimate friends, Mr. Boecher has beon in public life about forty ooy, hing boon as succossful o man ag aby othor of Lis time, and has the distinctivoreputation of being cheorful and jolly at all timos and under all circumstances, Even sinco Mr. Tilton's charges hinve been mado public, Mr Beecher s Deen roprosented ns full of lifo and fun, lsugh- ing nnd joking mmong his fiionds e was his formor oustom, It is worthy of noto, thorefore, that tho hypochondrineal tondonoy hias never boen ravealed to any ono excopt Moultan, sud thon only concerning Mr, Boochor'a rolations with tho Tilton family. 4, The Tripartite Agreement.—Mr. Boechor's reforenco to tho agreement signod by Tilton, Bowon, and himsclf {8 oxceedingly vague, Ilo loaves the improssion that Bowenntno time gym- pathized with Tiltou in his complaints agninet Mr, Boocher, snd that when Bowon brought the Tilton note demauding that Mr, Beocher should vacato the pulplt, he (Bowen) was igno- rant of its contents, As soon a8 ko losrned what tho note contained, he ropudiated sll sym- patby with it, and decided to discharge Mr, Til- ton from his two papors, Now, it Mr, Bowon Liad nover joinod fu any of the elanders againat Mr, Boocher, why was it nocessary that ho should bo & party to any agroomant not to slau- der hlm? On tho hypothesia that Bowen had written a letter charging Boechor with criminal. ity similar to that whioh 'ilton now charges upon lum, Bowen's prescuco in this matter {s roasonablo; on Mr. Booohor's statoment, it suems to bo unroaronable, It s aald that Moul- ton now holds thia Dowen letter among tho other documents alloged to be in oxlstonoe and not to havo boon produced, b. v, Beecher's Health.—DIr, Beockor oxplaing hig havivg sald that ho did not expeot to bo alive many days by tho assertion that he froquoutly woul into the pulplt with the conviction that ho would not llve through the sorvices, and that ho wat undor & constaut approhonsion of & sudden denth, Yot 3lr. Becobor, in coucluding his tostl- mony bofore tho Committes, confidently ox- prosses tho bellof that e will lve and work fiftoon yoora longor, Onn it bo, then,. that tho I)mlmnt scandal hus addod to bis certaluty of \fo ? 0. Deccher's Relations wwith Mrs, Tilton.—r, | - Boocher's statomont doos not convoy the im- presslon that ho was so intimato with Mra, Tilton an hor lottors to hor absont bushind would In- dicste. IIo adwlits in one placo that ho had henrd that Mrs, Tiltan was vory much in lovo with him; yet, knowing that, it would seem from Mrn. Tilton's lotlers to her husbanu that Mr. Beacher wan in tho habit of visiting her in ber husband's absonco, taking walles with her, carry- ing hor flowors, oto, 1¢ Mr, Boeckior lind an in- timation pt Mrs. Tillou's urdent sffaction for i, wonld it not have boon lus part as o pastor to keep nway from hor? 7. The Apology.—1t ia diffoult to undorstand that any man, charged wvon with having mado jmpropor proposals to another man's wife, should commuuicato an apology or oxplanation toa mutual friond, -allow tho lattor tomake memoranda of what ho was to say, and give it bis ownKudoraomont by signing his namo to o foot-noto, wetting forth that this was committod in confldenco to the mutual friend, and yetnot so miuch as read it. 8. Moullon's Reserved Evidence~A strong point in BIr. Bocokor's statemont is-the con- fidonco with which ho calls upon Moulton to produce what ovidonoo ho has, though {t I not strongor than Mr. Tilton's prosent solicltudo that Moulton sbould do this vory thing, In “Qatl's” Intorview with Moulton, printed in Tue Tumuse of Inst Monday, Moulton was roprosented as saying that ho hind possession of soveral lottors of nssignation betweon Buocher aud Ars, Tilton, tho text of two of which way givon, ono from Mr, Boochor and one from Mra, Tilton. Thiy Interviow with Moulton occurred Baturday, Aug. B, and at & time whon Lo still iu- tonded to prosent to the Committoo his suppross- ed statoment. If Lo told our corrospondent these tlungy, and ho has mndo no denisl of it, it was meraly an anticipation of what he intend- ed to tell tho Committee. In view of this par- tial rovelation of Moulton’s ducumontury ovi- dence, Mr. Beocher's statemont caunot be ac- copted ae fiuel in the case. Mr. Moulton must 8poak one way or tho othor. POLIOE AND PISTOLS. The local columus of Tug TrinuNe vestorday coutained two ftems which sugpest a radical re- form in the discipline of tho polico forco, A lady in tho Rock Island Depot had her pooket picked, and discovered tho scoundrel in the uct. 8he called for holp, and he fled through tho dopot, pursued by the crowd,—amony them a po- licoman, who, when ho saw that there was a fair prospect of the eseaps of tho pickpocket, drow Lis pistol and fired at him, but fuiled to Lut him, At an early hour on Saturday morning, a police~ man observed o burglar-coming out of & houso on Wabash avonue. o make good bis escape, tho burglar fired at the policoman, and tho po- licoman retwrned tho compliment, of courso ‘without histing him, and the fellow got sway. Tho samo burglar subsoquently ontored auother houso, but wag scarod awayDy anothor policoman, who fired threo times at him without hitting him. Thisis tuo old, old story, publiehed in almost evory issua of the daily pross, of fhe city- policomen firing at burglars and never hitting thom. What are pistols given to policemon for if thoy caunot hit anything with them? It ls timo that something was done whioh will scoura at least ono good aim to our polico forco. As markemen, thoy are boueath contempt. Tho _shooting of a dog in tho streets by & poligoman ondangers tho lives of the whole neighborhood. Now, beforo any moro wild aud random shooting is done, tho Polico Commissioners should taie prompt stops to porfoct tho discipline of the force in this direction, or else take pistols away from tho mon, Lot thom ho put under daily ‘practics in some safo placo, and i, at tho ond of & montl's time, any of thom are fpund unable tout a barn-door fifty foet off, lot thom bo diacharged. In all future additions to tho forco, lot it be understood a8 an imperalive condition of accoptunce that the candidate shall undorstand the uso of a pistol, and be a good marksman. Of courso the pistol is tobe used only in caso of extromo nocossity ; but when it {8 used it should bo used with offcet. If thore is danger 'thnts burglar may escapo unloss stopped with a pistol bullet, it 1a justiflable to put & bullet into him in somo loeality which will impede s progross. If it should happen to kill him, so much the worse for tho burglar, Thero is nothing which would stamp out burglary so completely/as a fow dend burglars, or tho knowledge that tho polico forco is armed, and licblo to use its arms with offect, At prosent, the fact that a policeman carrios o pistol i8 not alarming to any but ifino- cont peoplo, who aro moro liable to be shot than the thief who desorves it. THE MAYOR’S COMPLIMENTS. ayor Colvin bas mado Lis maidon spesch to 2 live Lord and s live Countess, It was o vory somarkablo spoeoh in ita way, and must have improssed Lord Dufforin: with & profound sense of tho grandeur of Chicago, The Mayor in- formed * Hin Excellency " that we havo a Doard of Public Works, and & Board of Police, and o Tloard of [eulth, and & Board of Edueation, and, s evory other city on the face of tho civilized globo bas tho same Borrds, Lord Dufferin must bavo recoived tho aunouncoment with open eyes ; and, nudoubtedly whea Lo writes another book on * Cruising in High Latitudes,” will in- corporato thoso facts in l‘:, not omitting to com- plimont tho Board of Polico on thoe fact that “thoy protoot tho lifa nnd property of our people whilo thoy are asluep,"—a fact not gouerally kuown fn Chicago. Furthermore, tho Mayor informed Lord Dufferin that wo have wator-works and a tunnel. #We think it is a graud improvemont,” ssys the Mayor, “and eanch you will ulso say it 18, if you have the op- portunity of seoing it." We sincorely hope that ho will have tho chauco of secing it, that we moy know if Lord Dulforin really says it is, It would bo oruel, after raising Lord D.'s oxpeota- tions 8o ligh, not to show Lim the tunnel, Naturally enough, tho Mayor could not omit somo allusion to the groat contlagration, aud as hohad rond up the glowing accouuts of the local gavants who had dosoribed it, ho informed Lord Dufferin that, notwithstanding tho groat fire, wo have & great oity, & Iousn of Correction, many fino, largo business housos, sixty banks, businoss housos that sell 15,000,000 of dry gooda por annum, aud all olagses of trado in pro- portion, Maving mado this announce- ment, again comoes the gloomy = sus- plelon that Lord Dufforin way not sep thom, #Wo shall be glad tu show you thoss houses if it ia convoulont to do o, Of courso it is con- voniont to do 8o, It would bo littlo less than boorish, aftor having tompted Lord Dufferin with such a msgnificont desoription, not to show Lim the pioture. Agsin enys the Mayor, warme Ing np with his speeoh: * Wo havo a Doard of olty onn boast of, and they number 1,700, X don't know that you will seo all of thom; but whon you do oo thom yor witl find & 8ot of Duslnoss mon who aro equal to thoir task.” Wiy daes the Mayor continually envelop Lord Dufforin with this wot blanket? Why dash his oxpootations, aftor ralsing them to such & holght, with tho susplolon that aftor all he may not sea all of the Doard of Trads ? Wo trust tho Board will seo to it that the wholo 1,700 are prosont to-dny when Lord Dulferin puts in his appearanco, Wo have omitted ono moro curiosity which the Mayor announced was on oxhibition : #Tho Common Council of our clty aro the Legis- Iaturo of ous, city. Thoy sro tho partios who oconduct tho aftairs of our city, as far ss Improve- wonta and overything of that kind are concorned, and thoy hold the purse-atrlnge.” It will bo observed thnt tho Mayor goes elow and caretully in unrolling this part of the ploture, aud herein e hizs displayed eminont good ronse. No one conld ‘havo touchiod upon this dolicate subject with moro thoughtfulnoss and discrotion. e makes no allustons to the now Court-House and othior jobs, o only says neatly, briofly, and tondorly: *Thoy hold tho purso-sirings.” In thieso flve words bo has summedup the financial polioy and operations of the Common Council. Wo araglad Lord Defferin does not know the dotails,—how they hold the pursc-ptrings, what purso-strings they hold,what i8 in tho purso, and how it got thero, Lord Dufferin will spend to-day and to-mor~ row in looking ot the tho curlositios which tho Mayor bas 8o flamboyantly eatalogued, Ho will so0 the water-works, *‘if ho las tho opportuni- ty." Mo will seo the $16,000,000 dry-goods tiousos, and other business on tho samo scalo, ©4f {t 18 conventent to doso;” and he will soo tho 1,700 members of the Board of Trade, if ull of thom nro thero whon bo eafia ; and, after ho has scon all tho curfositios, we haven't tho slightost doubt that ho will consider the Mayor of Chica~ go tho groatest curiosity of them all. PACKARD AND PINCHBACK, Tho breach batween Packard sud Pinchback, of Louwwians, {8 wider thau ever. On Aug. & thero was s groat meoting at the Stato-Housy, Now Orleaus. Tho moating wag tho largost that hiad over taken placo on & almilar occasion in the Stato of Loulsiaua. Tho appearances at that gathoring all poiuted in ono direction,~that the fight botwoou Pgckard and Piuchback would bo continued for an indofimte period of timo. Packard claimod & majority. But it could notbo dotormined whothor ho or Yinchback had tho prononderance. At the caucus hield on tho night of the bth inst., the two factions woro com- fronted. Tno leaders wero ell there. Thoro woro Kollogg, and Packard, aud West, aud Pincb- Dnck, The meeting was anythivg but a mutusl admiration socioty. Pinchback said that Kolloge . was a tynitor, to prove whioh charge Lo produced and road sundry lottors writton by said Kollogg to Morton. It appoared from thexo lotora that, for tho prosorvation of the Governmont, it was necewsary to keep Pinoliback out of tho Senate. Pinchback furthor ‘showed how Kellogg urged Mortou Lo oppose tha impenchment of Dutell ; how hoe had said that, if Duroll was impeached, hio would squeal ; how he worked for the over- throw of the nogro, ote., ote. Pinchback abused Packard, aud Packard abusod Pinchback, Such was the graud rosult of the grand cauous ; and Packard' aud Pjnchback ara wider apart than over. _ DISCIPLINING OFFICERS. u In 1878 tho peoplo of Ford County, Tliinols, elected Mr, J, D. Kilgoro, & * Farmer,” to the oflico of County Treasurer, lie offoring to do all tho duty for 3700 enlary o yonr. Aftor his olec- tion he found the ealary wholly iuadoquate, and thoroforo credited bimsolt with tho logal feos and commiesions. There was an indignavt pro- tout from the public, but Mr. Kilgore persistod in demanding, in addition to his eslary and al- jowances ae Troasurer, the sum-of $2,000 us ex- officio Collector. Thia clnim, which s abeurd, thoro beiug o such offico ay Collector, ho would not surrender; so, on the 25th of July, his ‘bondsman, seventeen in number, formally gave notico of their withdrawal as securitics on his official bonds. In this predicsment Le obtained o now bond, wlich was presonted to the Board of Supervisors. Thoy, aftor oxamining tho samo, declared it to bo insufflciont. They thon de- clared the oftice of County Troasuror vecant, and tho County Clork bas fssuned & call for s apecial election to fill tho vacancy. The Republican papors are making s groat noisa over this matter, aud point to it as proof of what comes from leaving the regular party. Tho netion in this case is highly croditable and honorable to the farmora of Ford County, They have shown that, this officor having proved falso to his pledges, thoy aro oqual to tho task of ap- plying a romedy. Thoy havo sot tho example of what the people of overy couuty ought to do with overy ofiielal who gota olocted under pro- tenne of roforni and coonomy, and then grabs at the Public Treawury. Wohnavo no doubt that tho snlary acoepted by r. Kilgore was all too small; but then, whou be found this to bo the case, his duty was to resign. Ho could not honorably re- tain the ofilce, and grab from the County T'ress- ury extra pay. Tho claim for componsation as & Callector ™ is too weal to ba entitled to respect. It s = sballow after-thought, on a par with the *‘back-pay" business, but, unliko that, withont tho somblance of logal authority. Ovor {n Tazowoll County there ig precisoly asim- ilar onse, oxcopt that the Treasurer is & Ropubli- can. Now, have tho Ropublicsus of that county courage and honosty enough to apply to that ofticer tho discipline enforced by tho Farmers' party in Ford Couuty ? MRS, HOOKER AND HER BROTHER, A lottor of Edward Beecber, brother of Henry Ward Becchor, datod Brooklyn, Deg, 16, 1872, and rocontly published, is of intorest in connec- tion with thoso of (. H. Beeolier to the editor of thio Brooklyn Eagle, ou account of the light thoy throw on the * Mrs, Ifooker faaturs of tho soan- dal." ‘Thoy show that Mrs, Hooker did actually Loliova in Mr. Beechor's guwlt, and that she dld contemplate invading Ler brother's pulpit, and recolving his confesalon from him bofore his congrogatlon. Her ground for her baliof of Mr. Doochoer's adultery with Mrs. Tilton was that Mra, Woodhull, Mrs, Stanton, and jliss Anthony had testifiod to it, Bhio must bave found the ovidenco of these thres persous suficiont to con- vinco ber of tho truth of the scandalous ro« ports that wore current concerning Booohor, It 18 not likoly that the more unsupported asser- tions of those womon would have produced that offoct on her. If Miss Anthony had told her of tho confossion which Mrs. Tilton is usld to have made to hor of her orlminal intimaoy with Boocher, she had every rosson to bolievo 1t ; and thoro {4 110 roason to think that Mra, Ilookor way doranged to account for her action. It lsonly necessary to think that she had full faith fu the neconsity and eflicacy of coufossion, Bhe be- Trade ln Qlilosgo,—~a Snex body of gentlemen no | Ueveg, st ber brother had ainned griovomly, and sho had an idos that i2 ho confossed bofors s congrogation thnt ho had so einnod he would have boon pardoned ; nay, thoet it was his dnty tos0 confess, and nocessary to have forglveness in ordor to have any furthor usofuinoss, Bho nakod Boochor whothor ho was guilty, Boochor assumod that sho was Insano on tho subject, and wo aro told, ondenvored tosootho hor. 1o wroto hor o lotter to cahn horand fuduce herto go homo. BosnyaMr, Goorgo I Bocchorin his comt- munlostion Lo the Drookly®t Eagle. But intho lottor Bocohor wrote Lo nolther acknowledgoed nor donied his guilt, It i uot a little strango that Mr. Beochor should not have dodled to hia sister haviug bhad any criminal rolation with Mra, Til- ton, espacially as such a denial would havo boen tho most offcotual means of producing the offoct on hor hio/desired, viz.: quicting hor. That Mrs. Hooker's aotlon was dictatod by hor faith in tho officaoy of coufession is ostabliaiod by tho lettor of Lier brothor Edward, roferrod to above. IIo writes that, in on interview with lim, sho hnd stated that sle was ondeavoring to induco Henry fto confers his sin a8 n means of *hiw salvatlon. Edward nssures hor that, if Ionry was gullty, confession will not #avo him, aud prophesies that, unless funooont, bo will fall like Lucifor; that s own peoplo will not forgivo bim ; aud that the Churoh uni- voreal will niot forgive him. Mrs. Hookor's ef- forts to bring hor brother to confession, taken in conneotlon with the fact that sho had heard of his sin through Miss Anthony, and with the arthor facts that Mre, Stautou sud Col, Anthony uay that Miss Anthony had a confession from Mrs. Tilton's own lips, aud that Miss Authony did not dony this, aro among tho things that will detor pnople from accoptiug Mr. Bescher's statemont as fiual and conclusive. OUR MUNICIPAL FINANCES, The City of Chicago {s govorned by & oharter which, in itsolf, fs a patchwork of leglslation, goneral and spocial, ruuning over a poriod of moro than twonty yoars, To understand that chartor, with its varled aud inconsiatent provis- ious, rondored more complloatod by judicial do- cisions upon a variety of isolaled questions, re- quires oot only & good logal mind but & courso of special study. Our affairs aro much ombar- ragaod by the fact that our political yoar beging in Decombor, our mhunicipal yoar in March, our appropriation yoar the first of July ; our aunusl intorout is payable in July sud Jaouary, some of our taxes fall due in May, others in Novem- bor, and tho rest at othor dates. The great ovil, however, is that the taxes lovied for any ono year aro not collectod nntil from three to six mouths aftor that year heg oxpired; that tho taxes, out of which $6,000,000 of appropriations for s given year have to bo paid, bave no funds applicabla for that purpose save the pro- ceeda of & lovy of 5,600,000 mado for tho year provious; that wo aro always & year bobind band in our tax-lovy; and that our appropria- tions always excaed by from 400,000 to $600,000 a year the money collocted to defrag them. So loug s tle city was authorized to doll bonda rad build up s debt, these annual doficloncics wera not noticed, as they wero funded from time to time, Butnow this can no longer he dons, and we must meet tho plain and direct iague, of pay- ing our oxponscs as wo go. ‘fhore is but one way for a municipal corpora- tion to pay its debts and its expenses, and that is to lavy and collect & tex equal to its wants, and to expond no monoy on aay objeot until tha tox thorefor1s lovied and collested. The City Colloctor, on Aug. 24, will procesd by ealo to colloct tho unpaid taxos on roal estate. This tax Is that lovied for the municipal yoar conding March ‘81, 1874 In the ofica of the Comptroller thore woro at the beginning of thils municipal year unpaid taxea of last and provious yours, reprosented by cortiflcates of purchasea at tax-salos, smounting in round numbers to half a million of dollars. Anothor half million of dollars had beon improporly teken from the “Treasury. Tho defioiencos since 1870, and the unusually large ono of tho year of tho fire, had boen accumulating, The city, to moct tho de- mands for which this money was intended, bas had to borrow on short loans, until now the aity is carrving these deflclencies, defaleation, tax cortificates, and unpaid taxos, at a high rate of interest. At tho tax-sale next donday, and be~ fore that dato, there will bo consldorable revenue collected in cash, but thore will bo turned in, in lien of cash, from a holf to amillion and & half of dollare in tax costificatos, Tito appropriations for 187475 have to bo pald out of tho tax-lovyof 1873-'74 ; and, as the appropriations aro-hal? a million greater than that tax-levy, thors muat bo a deflciency, even if the wholo lovy waa collected. During thoso severnl yoars the Common Coun- cil hag bad a full knowledge of this alip-shod condition of things, and that it was getting worso; and yot not & man hes kad tho coursge to propoao to lovy a tax of one or two mills an- nually to take up this sccumulation of deiicion- clos and other odds aud onds, How much the “fionting dobt" sepresonting theso things amounts to, wo do not know ; but at tho present rate, borrowing money &t intorcst to pay ourrent expensgs, it caunot be very long beforo that floating dobt will equal an ordinary anvual tax-levy. That debt has to bo pnid, and it can only be paild by revonuo collect~ od trom taxation. Shall wo attack it now, or sball wo wait until it has Lecomo so large that we will b brought to a stand-atill ? The city chartor needs to bo expurgated of many sbsurditles ; it noods to be harmonized. The municipal and political years ought to begin ab tho same dato, Each yoar's expenditures ought to be borne out of the proceeds of the tax. lovied for that year. Then tho appropriatlons and tho tax-levy ocould be kept at the samo smount, and we would avoid the annualdeflcien- cles. But wo musttake up this aconmulated, unfunded dobt, and payit. That can only be dono b; a lovy for that specifio purpose, Ono othar thing is noeded, The law regulat- ing tax-salon has boen so blundored that no man can or will purohaso delinquent proporty. Tha clty, when it buys proporty at the tax-salo, must, in order to retain italien, pay all other taxes—Stato, county, and town—on that prop- erty, Tlhe owner of proporty sold for taxes orres very little how ofton it is sold, solong as the unpaid taxes aro not a lien aud no title can bo obtained by tho purchasor, This dofect in thoe 1aw bas been notorlous, and, with noless then twonty-oight atalwart statosmou roprosentiug this county In the Leglalature, noremedial logia- Iation was ever obtainod. Wit the failuro of the tax-salo a8 & coorolve means of collecting taxes, the embarrasuments of tho oity must bacomo ‘moro and more complieated, Lot us hope that #oma one of our soven legislative districts will oloct at loast ons member to the Legislaturo uext winter who mill have some knowledgo of onr muniolpal atfairy, and liave intolligonco and induntsy enough to address himsolt to obtaining re-eatablistinent of ordor inthe now disor- "ganizod and complicatod ondition of affaira, duo largoly (o our fentful and wondorful charter, Through the offorts of tho Danbury News wa have mada tho acqnaiutance of avery ro- markable wot of peopla who constitute the popu= lation of that town, Wo havo cometo think that nearly all the eldorly macried men go out. Into tho barn and gt protty woll kicked by Lioruos thiat havo recontly boon pold to thom as extromoly qulet anfinals; that all thio married womeu juslst upon putling up cook-aloves wrong end to, and bothor their Lusbauds whon, with many curees, thoy ondonvorto adjust tho diM- culty; that sl tho morrisgenblo daughe tors gozo soutimentally at the stars and talk nousonso, and that love's young dream is broken only by tho toe of an angry ‘parent, to- Rotber with many establishod loon! idlosyncracles tobo found inno othior town in Now Bugland, Mr. Dailoy’s work, however, is incomplote. Io has not glven ue a skateh of an {nuitution for chile dren at Danbury, nor have we beon Introduced uutil recently to Miss Stokes, tho assistant man- agar, or Miss Buil, the muuagor, or Col. While, who performed wome wonderful logal foats fn s Tecont caue, or the good-naturod Mr. Hands, of tho Voostor louse. Mr. Bailey wont to Europa too soon. Danbury's groat susation was 8 kiduapplug case, wiitton nup by tho Now York Ierald. Tho facts sro bricfly those: Lust March, Adam Caldwoll, of Now York, dosorted bis wite ' under clroumstanoos of great atrocity,” and carried away thoir fufant deugtor. The boreaved mothor wandored about tho Eastern Btates for mouths, wearied and ponniloss, in yoarch of hor child Ier {riond took up the caso and furnished hor logal counticl, A sweok or 50 ngo, sho learued that the misaing infant had boen placed in the fnstitution ot Danbury. With o friond she called at the s8ylum, was invited to inspect tho dormitorios ; #ow her baby, seized tt aud fled to the Woostar Housio, followed by all tho old men who abuse thour wives, tho womon who do not undorstsud stove-pipes, tho laborers who work by tho hour, the young women who talk nonsonse, the ewaing who are constantly baing interruptod in their love-making, the chronie drunkards, and tho hundred other Danbury celob- rities, tho pursuit headed by Miss Stokes. e kidusppers reachod their hotol, and wera aftor- wards arrested. Then came tho noble jurist, Col. White, to the resoue, opposed by snothior Danbury celebrity (namo not give) of very ofw fousive mannors; thePolice Court was thronged, tho ‘cnge tiied, and evorything looked vary black for mother and friend. But Col. White was too muoh for Danbury, and beat the prosccution; tho ladios osoaped aud doparted with the baby without dolay, and Daunbury was left wonderiog what would Lappen noxt to disturb those peaceful customs which Mr. Bailoy has photographed for the rest of the country, AMoanwhile tho mother appeals to tho Now York courts for tho legal custody of the obild, = LS SNy Tho violenes which among uncducated ruf- fiane in Missouri is bringivg that Stato into a, prominonce not desired by its well-wishers, sooms to bolong of right to s certain class of Kentucky'* gontlemon,” A Kontucky ahooting- affray among gentlomon is usunlly of tho most cowardly character, such as the vulgar low-bora criminals of the rival Stato could not oxceod. Wo bave noted from time to timo-the various acte of chivalric murder, begioning with tho sliooting of Meyers by Terrollin Covington. Another one, worthy of tho Stato, occurred noar Louisvillo, tho parties being, as usual, *mon of cmincuce in the commumnity. 3Mr. R. Ton Brooko, n stock-raiser, and Gen. Walter ‘Whittaker, woro engaged it convorsation on tho cars, whon somo indolicate allusion was sald to hnve beon made by the former to a relative of tha lattor. A quarrol ensued, which resulted in Mr. T'en Broeke's leaving lis seat and going inte avothor car. When he alighted at Gilman's Point, Gen. Whittaker followed him and renewea tho quarrel ou tho platform, Ten Brooke or- dored the warrior away, when that horo drow a pistol and fired twice at tho former. Mr. Ten Bracko, though moro than 60° years old, seciug that a oloso encounter alono would save his life, sliod on hik opponont, who fired ngain withont effect, The two grappled, and the *Genoral,” piacing the muzzie of his rovolver against Tou Brooke's forehoad, fired, and the victim dropped, apparently doad. Gon. Whittakor wallod nway and * gave himsolf up to tho po- lice," accordling to the code of Kentucky honor, sautisfled that ho would come to no harm. It ap- penred that the bullet which was meant for Ten Broeke's brain traveled round the skull without peuotrating it, and came oub nenr the back of the hend. Whittaker hos slroady killed two mon,—one in Shelbysille with o knifo, and another in Frankfort with s piatol, The * fino old Kentucky gentloman” appears to havede- generated into o plessant compound of bully, bondit, and bravo, no higher in the social seala than the Lowery outlaw. E —_———— Professionnl doad-beats aro 80 numerous thet thoy are being drivon to tho most extrsordinary messuras to accomptish their purposes. The latest of thoso is that of a German Jow namod Lovy, who, desiring & froo ride to Now York from Illinels, surrendora himeolf to the Sher iff of McLoan County, fll., ay the murderer of Nathan, Ho offers to go to New York without a requisition, His statemont of the partioulars of tho locality, the mannorin which tho murdor was committed, aud tho genoral cirouni- stances of the case, on belog tel- ographod to New York, wore found utterly incorrect, and tbe stupid fraud was discovored. This is ot the first instance that s man bas desired 8 free paes over a rail- rond on' the grouand that ho was s murderer Daniel MoFarland, it is ssid, asked tho lato Jomes Fisk, Jr., for a similar courtesy, bocau.o 1o had shot A. D, Richardson, Fisk is roported to havo kicked the applicant out of his ofiico, Mr. Lavy prabably escaped tho Iatter attention {rom tho Shoriff, Any one who rends the last number of ile Northweslern Christian Advocate will probaliy Ccomo to the conclusion that its editor is“pacu- liarly sensitivo ot the exposuro of backaliding preachers, —_—— NOTES AND OPINION. Congressman John B, Iawley having beon flung out and trod on by tho Ropublicuns of hiu own (Ttock Island) connty, Gen. ThomasJ. Hon- derson, of Princoton, loomu into prominence uy tho man for tho Nepublican nominaton in the Sixth District, —Wo obsorve In Enstern Republican papors that Fanton, of New York; Alex K. McClufe, of Ponusylvania ; and Jim Beovel, of New Jersoy,— woll-knawn supportors of Greeley in 1872,—rre now in & position to have honora showered upon them by * tho parly they ought never to have loft." —1Ii took a Republican Convention in Alsbama four days to nominato a negro for Congress, though Dick Busteod was present and bosvod the job, Dick told the Convontion that “The time kind come whon a blaok man, and the black- or the botter, shonld be sont to Congress.” Dok istho (as yot) unbusted United States Judge concorniag whom thara ara sowno nnsavory docus monts pigeon-holed in Congressional commite too-rooms at Wushington, —Gov, Btearns (carpot-bagger), of Floridn, aspires to the United States Bonato, and Arranged s Congresslonal nomination for Rabert Mechrm (colored), who also had Sonatorial aspiratlons. Tho Distrlet Convoution at Tallahasseo, Aug. 11, divided on * the color lino," ono faction nom- inating Menchum, the other adhering to Cous gressman Purman (white). ~—Tha presonce of two colored men an dolo- gates in the Republican Couniy Convention of Randolph Qounty, 111, last weok, caused the in« stant secouslon of oertain white dolegates, who doul::rml * Thoy could not swallow thia bittor puL" v 2 =Ths principles enunciated ta tho Hlinols e}l