Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 31, 1875, Page 4

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ELD ATRE—Desrborn street, eornor Mon- ao actety oatoriainmants Bis oketoebears With.” Siteraoay and orening. WVICKHE'S THEATRE—Madivon atroot, hetwosn Rearhern nnd State, Hagagument of Lawrouce Bartatt, *'Richallew." HOOLKY'S THEATRE—Randotnh strect, hetween Dlark and sgSalle. ?Mayuolis.” Atiamtoamend evening, “SOCIETY MEETS. COSMOPOLITAN LODGE, moeting this { Wodnesday) a! armen af eecariiue tho" ne four tn ona pcs io ra Vranl P, Dodd, from thole (asthe Tint to Mt Per ardor, JUL PLEIADES LODGE, rrembera peu hereby nated to ‘huraday, April, at ita, mi., for tad Ing ta funeral of nue inte “brathor, Gea. 1, a af Bla aernally lueited, iy ore Bae of a eee eat Been ATTENTION BIN KNIGHTS OF CHICAGO Con. MARDEW MO Noo ite Rete Von ave heuchy nertten 16 queet at our Asim, cor, Handolpn aad Jaurelay inorning, ‘April 1, 1875, at 11 o'clock a, a tho, pnrpore of attending’ tho funeral of cur Ino. Bi Hort “Geo. i Voung. Ar Rnighte of Hiver Coun. 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Huenett's “omtoainog will ropair this waste. ‘The Cocnalne is a core foot iatr Deosring =a promotor of the nrowth of the Heir rs mi frritating mattor., Ithas croat. in—ls rapidly absurbed and inne N ENAMELERS, WIlO PHOFISS eanti{al forever," are tha inuat per- nictuws Lumbugs extant, ‘Thir vila’ plaster obstructs tho pores, doatroys the olasticity of the akin, and isat best a chastly burloquo on natura, Lalrd’s Bloom of Youth ts ie only articlu in exlstonce which produces a complosion: Uint 16 porfeotly fo-tiko, and at tho paino time gives & velvet softnosg t6 the auriace, and pravents tho formation UL wrinkles, "Sold by dengihits overgwhara. Che Chitaga Gribune, ‘Wednesday Morning, March 31, 1875. It is authoritatively announced that tho defendant in tho Brooklyn trial will bo called to tho stand to-day, Io was absont from tho court-room throughout yestorday, preparing, it is supposed, for tho serious business before him, Startling information bas beon reccived at Washington to the effect that tho yellowfover hag made ita appearance at the Gulf ports un- usually early, and is rapidly spreading, ‘The naval vessela at Key West oro in quarantino, and the fort garrison will be at ono withdrawn out of the reach of the dangerous opidemic, Thero is on uncomfortable outlook for the Senntonal excursion party in the fact that the Dispatch, the Government yacht which is to cary them to Mexico, put in at Koy West during tho rago of the yellow fever and be- fore its provalonco was known outside the port. Tho roport that Princo -Gontsomanorr has asked for tho rocall of our Secretary of Le- gation at St. Petersburg, Mr. Evarnz Servy- Lex, is now deniod, but thero is no doubt that Mr. Scouyren’s report of Russian misman- agement in Contral Asin (which was pub- Tshed, of corso, after the artless fashion of - our State Departmont) has made tronble be- tween Russia and England. ‘Tho latter secs, or pretends to sec, in it proof of two facts, ~—that Russia is incapable of civilizing her Asintic conquests, and that sho means to push her frontier to that of British Hindo- ston,—and perhnps farther. There's tho rub, If tho bear and tho lion do grapplo on Asian soil, thero will bo a deadly hug, Ema Tho Legislaturo ought to pass tho bill in- troduced by Mr, Hisr authorizing corpo- rato authorities governing parks to omit the purchaso of tracts or portions of Innd, not yet acquired, from tho boundarics of perks or boulovards which havo been located, Some such measure is necossary to protect the people from such extortions as that attempted to bo practiced in tho recont con- demnation of the Conznovr tract, in which tho proporty was appraised nt thrico ite valuo, When owners of proparty understand that tho authorities aro not forced to buy their laud on “pnt-up-job” prices, they will bo willing to sell at a reasonable fignuro, Tho Passage of this bill would save the poople some hundreds of thousands of dollars in South Park transaction alone. ‘Tho threa Chicago Town Boards met yes- terday for the purpose of auditing accounts for the fiscal year just closing, In South Chicago the Board was confronted by an in- juuction restraining tho payment of the enor- mous salaries which tho town officers havo been calculating upon, though the Board showed a determination to keop thi? clasy of exponditures strictly within the limits pro. vided by law. Inthe Weat Chicago Board the same disposition was manifested, with a fair prospoot of foiling tho salary-grabbers, tu tho North Town only were funds illegally squandered, Thore the oficers yoted each other such compensation as they wanted with vunblushing effrontery, and in plain violation of tha Jaw as proviously Inid down by the courts. ‘The amount divided up in this way wnong four perfectly uscless oftico-holders wax $14,200, one-fourth of which would be ample remuneration for the services actually performed, even supposing those services to Possess any value to the tax-payars,—which is not the case. The Chicago produce markets wore varia- ble yeaterdsy, Moss pork was active, and advanced 50 por bri, closing weak at $20.45 cash, and $20,70@20,72} for Muy, Lard wou active, andadvanced 5a por 100ths; closing weak ot $14.12} cash, and $14.25@214.40 for May. Aleats wore aotive and 4@jo per tb higher, nt Jo for shoulders, 114¢ for short ribs, aud life for short clears. Tlighwines wero quict and firm at $1.12 per gallon, Flour was quiet and firm, Wheat was moderately active ond tirmer, closing at 93}o cash, and 07Jo for May, Corn was dull and $0 lower, closing at U7d0 for April, aud 750 for May, Outs wero quitt and firmer, closing at 55Jo for April, Itya ‘waa quiet and firmer, closing at 194c@#1.00. Barley was dull and casior, cloging at $1.044@ 1.05 for March, and $1,014 for April, On THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY MARCI 31, 1875. Saturday evening Inst there was in store in this city 4,124,287 bu wheat, 2,464,247 bu corn, 651,450 bn oats, 8,810 bu rye, and 176,999 bu barley, Hogs were active, sud @La higher. Cattle and sheep wero in fair demand and stend; The Citizens’ Association is to bo congratu- Inted on its success in checkmating tha town ofticinls of South Chicago in their offort to draw exorbitant pay for their services, Tho Collector was allowed 215,000 for himself aud assistants; the Assessor also %15,000 for self and essistants, Tho Inw limits the compensa- tion of the formor to $1,600, and that of the Intter to 35 8 day. On tho application of Mr. Boomen, tho President of the Citizens’ Association, Jndgo Wrttaxs has enjoined the Supervisor from paying the outrageous ap- rropriations mado by tho Town Doard. Wo think a proseention of the caso will dofent the paymont of these exorbitant salaries al- together. In that enso, tho number of bum. mers at the spring town elections will mate- tinlly decrease. Compulsory education is heing enforced in New York City with gratifying vigor and good results, A census of children not in attend. ance upon school is employing sixty police. men, who will roport by the middlo of April. Meanwhile, the Truant Agents aro scouring tho streets for stray scholars, It is a note. worthy fact that so far no compulsion, prop- erly so-called, has had to be used. Persua- sion has proved suMfcient. In many cases, it has been only Inck of decent clothing which kept children away, When this was supplied, they have gone joyfully. As yet the nows- Dboys, boot-blacks, and factory operatives havo not been approached. ‘Tho hardost work will have to bo done among them. While Now York is thus doing her best to insuro an edu- cated cilizenhood, the Bourbon Senate of Ohio, afraid of universal intelligence and Democratic defeat, votes down compulsory education. ree FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND INDEPEND- ENCE OF THE COURTS, When wo wrote Monday on tho subject of the contempt case, it was under some depres- sion of spirits, in eonsequenco of tho incar- ceration of an editor in a ‘felon’s coll,” ag was then supposed. The sympathotic sido of our natnro was touched, and it was impossi- blo to look calmly on and fairly consider the provocation which caused the judicial blow to bo inflicted. But, as the imprisommnent ter. minnted in nothing worse than a fow hours’ detention in the Sheriff's private parlor, in the company of congenial spirits, thanks to the overruling interposition of a supreme au- thority whose lightning stroke set the pris- onor free, the other cide of the matter can now bo safely considered. ‘The case has two sides, and much may bo snid on both. It is too important to be paased over without o full understanding of the facts, It was not, as is generally nssumed, 8 caso where tho contempt consisted in an in- sult to the presiding Judge, and where tho Judgo “was the prosecutor, Judge, jury, aud executioner in his own case.” ‘The contempt was in the publication of certain articles directed against the private chrracter of tho membors of tho Grand Jury, collectively and individually, against which articles tho Grand Jury appealed to the Court for pro- tection, It appears from the review of tho books by both Court and counsel that the cnso is unprecedented ; ond that an assault upon a Grand Jury to intimidate them ogainst find. ing indictinents, or to force them to find in- dictments, has never before occupied tho at. tention of any Court sinco the Amorican Union was founded. On the 18th of February, the Grand Jury found four indictments against the editor of the Times, On tho 1ith, 16th, and for several suecossive days, he referred to the Grand Jury, collectively and severally, by name, as ‘ male strumpots,” “common drunkards,” “sports,” “ bam- mers," “frequenters of brothels,” gam. blers,” cte., ete, in connection with having indicted him for obsceno publications ; de- uounced the indictmonts as “ mean, pitifnl revenge,” and informed the jury tbat the Times would carry ‘the battle to the end.” While theso articles were pasuing through the paper, the Grand Jury had other complaints against thosamo paper nnder consiteration, and accopted these attacks as an effort to intimi. date them in tho discharge of their duty by shameless personal assaults upon the mem- bers, caleulated to injure them in their pri. yato business and otherwise. This is what Judge Wrt1ame held to bo contempt, a3 an offort ‘to impede, embarrass, aid obstruct tho business of the Court.” It was against thesa attacks the Grand Jury appealed to tho Court for protection, Tho freedom of the press is moro than any thing clee depondent on the independence and feorlessncss of the courts. Without tho protection of a fearless and upright judiciary, tho rights of the press and of all citizens would bo frail indeed. ‘The liborty of the press docs not consist of the mero privilogo of tho cditor; it is a liberty pertaining to the gencral public. In tho samo way tho frocdon of the courts from violenco, insult, interforonce, or anything caloulated to doter or provont a fearless discharge of their duties, is no less an invasion of tho rights of tho general public, Every man has an interest in maintaining the authority of tho courts, as well as in uphold. iug tho freedom of the press, and, as we have said, the press itself wonld be helpless with. out the protection of tho courts, An essential part of the machinery of the courts aro the Grand and Petit Juries, Every adult male citizon in Cook County ia subject to jury service, ‘They ara liable to bo called atany day, Except to tho professional juror, this duty is an irksomo one, ‘Lo mon in busl- ness, it is a costly and very ombarrnssing duly, which is never rendered except upon compulsion, ‘ho Grand Jury have to hear ¢@ parte statements of nlloged erlmes and offenses, aud to decida whothor there is rousonablo cause shown for holding ac- cused persons to trial, hey do not convict any person, but thoy must indict beforo there cau be trial or conviction, It fs a thankless oftlco, rarely if ever sought, 1t is a question how far theso mon, perform. ing a disagrecablo but necessary duty under tho law, may be assaulted iu their good name, their family relations, their porsonal habits, their business engagements, by persona inter. ested in having them find bills, or reject bills, of indictment; or when thoy, upon their oaths, in the discharge of a duty forced upon them, do find an indictinont, it isn question Low far thoy may (bo published to the world a3 ule strumpets, common drunkards, gam- Uers, or held up to public scorn by other like deacriptive epithets, It is a question wheth- cr 8 merchant serving on the Grand Jury cnn bo subjected to the penalty of being repre. sented to the world a4 part owner in a houso of prostitution, or as a cotunon drunkurd, because ho finds on indictment, or to threntoned with | of tho force of precedent, habit, and appo- similar accusations if ho dare, as a Grand Juror, voto to find an indictment. Thero is hardly distinction botween waiting at the door of the Grand Jury room with pistol or bindgcon to nssault any juror who may voto for on indictment, and publishing of tho sine juror the most scandalous and infamous imputations, caloulnted to injuro him in all the relations of life. Of the two means of intimidation, that of personal yiolonce would bo the most manly; it would at least give tho assailed an opportunity for self-defense, and of punishing tho assailant as he deserved, Wo havo in this county every year twelvo Grand Juries of twenty-threa men ench, and perlaps a hnndred other trial juries, Mow many meu aro thoro in Chicago who will ho willing to serve on theso juries under the threat that if they do their duty conscien- tiously they will be denounced individually ; have thoir domestic affairs represented in'tho most vulgar mannor; their familios subjected to indecont innuendoes; their personal habits advertised in falso and offensive terms; thoir Genoral character dofamed; and their busi- ness concerns imisropresonted? Men who would brave any personal dangor might well shrink from nn encounter of this kind. As a man would turn out of the path of a vicious animal, so might the best of men seck to avoid Grand Jury sorvico when tho pennlty of doing their duty Will lend to being published from day to day in tho fonlost, falsest, and most scandalous manner. It is no answer to say that ench man thus falsoly assailed has his remedy at Inw. Thero is no suflicient remody at law for such an injury. If any person be guilty of any ofiicial impro- priety while acting ag a Grand Juror, then it in-approprinte to criticise that oficial miscon- duct; but to seok to intimidate him in tho dischargo of his duty, or to pursno him vine dictively for doing his duty by allogations concerning other matters in no wise con- nected with his office, is an offense which, as was conceded in thiscase, had no precedentin the history of the pressor of the courts of this or auy other country. Such a procecd- ing is not only an effort to intimidate tho Grand Jury thus ossailed, but is a notice to all future Grand Juries of what they may expect. It is, by implication, a udtico to oil trial jurors that, if they presnmo to convict, thoy may expect to bo advertised os ‘malo strumpots,” fathers of bastards, disreputable in thoir lives and in their business, And thus, tho ndminiatration of justicois met in the Grand Jury room andin the Trial Jury room with a threat of personal injury gd suffering far more deter. rent than an actual offer of personal violence. An action at law for such a crime against decency aud justico does not repair tho wrong nor releaso the administration of justico from the terrorism placed over it. ‘To arrest the slander and the falschood by tho verdict of a jury will take n year, and it can only bo then accomplished by the verdict of another jury subjected in liko manner to the same threats and the same calumnics, This cago, therefore, raises, under tho gen- eral claim of tho ‘freedom of tho press,” a question of how fara nowspaper is justified in threatening Grand and Potit Jurors with personal defamation and disgraceful calum. nies, {o provent their maldng certain findings as jurors. In this respect, this caso is ita own only precedent, No such act was over previously committed by any newspaper, no matter how disreputable, and, consequently, no other Court was over called upon to judge of it, It isn question whother there isn ro- spectablo nowspnpor in Christendom which will justify such a claim, oither as part of the froedom of the press or as a mattor within the lines of common decency and respect for the fearless and indopendont administration of the law. Now comos the question, Was the Court right in treating this intimidation of tho Grand Jury 04 a contempt of the Court? That is n question which ia to bo dotermined by the Supremo Court in duo time, and wo will not now discuss it, TEMPERANCE REF IN OHIO, Tho usual direction which so-called Tom- poranco Reform tnkes isn departure from Neouse and towards prohibition, The Ohio Legislature haa rovorsod this order of pro- ceeding. ‘The local Governments in Ohio aro prohibited by the Stato Constitution from licensing tho sale of liquor, Thoy may pro- hibit the salo to any extent thoy see fit; they aro not permitted to license the sale in any caso, But tho Ohio Senate has just passed anact which hed already passed tho Honuo, preventing the Town Councils from prohibit. ing the sale of wine, cider, and beor, thus recognizing by law tho practical and proper distinction between spirituous and formentod liquors, ‘This actis now the law of Ohio, where the Governer has no right of veto, and it is claimed to bein the interost of temper- ance reform, About a yoar aga this time, it will be ro- membered, a large part of Ohio was in no frenzy of excitoment over the “crusading” which bad been undertaken by the women agaiust tho sale of al kinds of stimulants, Their demand was to‘al sbstinence; their mothod, prayer and poreoution, Their fama rapidly spread over tho country, and they found imitators in somo of tho othor Weatorn States, ‘Tho ‘ernsading,"” however, re- auuined n pecnliar instimtion of Ohio, and achicved no goncral sucess outside of that State, Women invaded the lowest Grog. shops and Inborod with the most depraved of inen and women. ‘They Jnelt down on tho sidewalks in the mud, and exhorted all those who approached tho neighboring’ saloons, In tho smaller communities where the bull of public sentiment was opposed to the volling of liquor, thoy schioved a tom. porary success, Perhaps thoy mado some genuino converta, but tho majority of thoso who went out of tho business of selling liquor did to becauso they wero unnblo to rosist the forco of public son. timent egainet them for the timo being, or be- canga they found a good opportunity for dis poulng of their stock on hand. A few hypo- critos took ndvantago of the excitement to bring themselvos into notoriety without hav- ing any sympathy with the causo, 'The gen- cral result, howover, was not commoendatory of this kind of temperance reform. ‘Thera waso relapso almost everywhere when the excitement had worn itself away, If any- thing, tho renction against all temperauca reform by the outre and sensational style of tho crusaders probably moro than overbalanoed the individual reformations which the oxhort- ers achieved. Moroover, it was a kind of ox- citement which could not Inst Jong, nor bo renewed vory soon after it had spont its force, Wo beliove that the law recently passed will eccomplish moro general aud lasting ro- form than tho crusaders achieved, and with- out the waste of physical and moral force in- cident to the career of tho latter, It pro- ceeds upon a practical recognition of por- sonal rights within proper rostraint; the crusadws proceoded upon on abstract donial ite. In tholr offorts to achiove total absti- nence by the forceof moral suasion, thoy com. mitted tho samo blundor 3 thosa reformers who seck prohibition by legislation, ‘They both ask that tho nine anon who drink in moderation, and without getting drunk, shall sacrifice their porsonal right for tho protection of tho tenth man who docs got drunk, ‘They both class the man who takes a little wino “for the stomach's sake" in the samo category with the follow who makes a benst of himself on vilo whisky, Thoy maky no distinction bo. tween light wines and beers, which com- paratively fow men drink in excess, and strong spirita which -can hardly be drank at all except in oxcess, Thoir regime ia too right and sweepiug, and honco their failure to receive tha support of tho moxderate class, Wo imagine that the effect of tho now Inw in Ohio will bo 9 more geueral prohibition of the sale of spirituous liquors than over would have been attained so long as tha prohibition of liquor included tho prohibition of wine, cider, and beer, Wohnave no doubt that many communities, even tho Intger, may be in- duced to prohibit tho sale of strong drink which would nover havo voted to prohibit the sale of cider, beer, and wine, We seo no reason why tho palpablo distinction between malt liquids and ‘distilled damnation,” bo- tween tha juice of the grape and flery splits, should not bo recognized by political communities ns well ns by chemists, Tho uso and effects of tho two aro ontirely differ- ont, ‘This differenco ig recognized in the liconso law of England, where o greater charge is mado for tho privilego of selling strong drinks thou for mild drinks, Thore is no need of nuch legal recogni. tion on tho continent of Europe, whero tho universal uso of beer and wino acts as a voluntary prohibition of tho stronger drinks, It is sheor folly to deny the faot of a goneral appetite for stimulants; it has existed in all times and all countries, ‘Tho question for trno reformers is whether thero shall be a general uso of mild ond harmless stimulants in reason, or a general use of harsh and poisonous stimulants out of reason. Every movement, legislative or moral, which promotes tho former helps break down the Intter. Wo shall look, there. fore, with interest for tho practical workings of tho now Ohio law, which makes public recognition of a distinction nlrcady well do- fined in social and scioutitic circles, SPEAKER HAINES AS DICTATOR, Mr. Speaker Harrs ovidently imagines that ho oxercises the same control over tho Illinois Legistaturo which Mr, Tost Scorr used to have of the Pennsylvania Legislature at the time a motion in that body to adjourn was always supplemonted with the proviso, “if Mr. Tom Scorr has no furthor business for this Houso to transact.” Now wo aro told that Mr, Haves is coolly informing mom- bers of tho Logislaturo that thoy may just as woll go home, that they will not bo needed any longer, “ that there will be no more legis tation at this session.” Mr, Warnes spoaks with tho assurance of power. He can only know that there will bo no moro legislation this session by n consciousness of his individual power to provont avy further legislation. His announcemant may, therefore, be taken ng n semi-official declaration that he will not per- mit anything moro to be dono this session, Assuming tlnt Mr. Warnes mado tho re mark attributed to him by Mr. Horgres, and that there will bo no moro logislation thia session with his pormission, tho inquiry is naturally suggested why ho has come to this determination. It certainly cannot be on ac- count of the dafeat of the proposed repeal of tho Rogistry act. Though Mr. Hares appeared to be strongly interested in having all check upon illogal voting removed, ho could not have been s0 entirely ‘absorbed in this political monsure as to rofuse all neces- sary legislation to the State on account of his disappointment. We must look olso. where for Mr. Hares’ rovengofal feeling, Perhaps it is not somuch because he wants to punish the Stats for tho refusal of the Legislature to sanction illegal voting, as be. cause ho does not desiro the pasunge of some particular bill nowpending, which might get through among the rest if any more legisla. tion wero permitted. Can it be that Mr. Tlaryrs' informal proroguing of the Logisla- turo is intended to defent tho pnssago of Mr, Boour’s banking bill? For somo myse- torious and unexplained reason, Mr. lamtcs is uncompromisingly opposed to making tho savings banks of this State, and particularly of Chicago, subject to oxamination, and re- quiring from thom poriodical publio state. ments of their condition, He porsiatontly ignores tho fact that the Constitution (which ho helpod to make) peremptorily requires the Pansago of sucha law. Ho disrogards the or- porienco of all other States whera such a law duns beon found absolutely necessary for the protection of tho peoplo, Ho is utterly in. differont to the interests of tho mnsses of the common people who doposit their savings without any other protection than tho in- dividual honesty and tho ability on tho part of those with whom thoy deposit. Ho is almply detormined thero shall bo nosuch law, Now why? Wo do not think it wonld bo out of the way for tho Legislature to ask for a commit- teo to investigate this matter, aud ascortain tho sooret of Mr, Harnes’ opposition to tho Bonk Examination bil, If his purpose is an intersted, porsonal, and selfish one, it onght scarcely to be permitted to nct asa probibl- tion of all furthor loyislation in order to ex- cludo a law directed by the Constitution and domanded by tho best intorosts of tho pooplo, Mr. Stonzy maken a good many mistakes, but thoy aro generally of the heart and not ofthe head, But in this mattor of contempt he seems to havo loit his usual shrewdness, His keon scent of;notoriety and sonsation doserted him in 9 gitieal moment. Ho had 8 glorious opportuiity for martyrdom, and ho throw it away. flo could have added al- iost o4 many subsjribors to his papor as hia nasty reporta of fio Beronen’ trial havo brought him. Hejconld have beon-a ten- days’ wonder,—for|that was the longth of hig sentence, But he permitted his friends to betray him, {lis counsel wore oyer- zoalous, Thoy gol him telegraphed out of foil before ho was ffrly in. A magnificont son- sation was lout, Cin it be that with advano- ing age he is losin} his newspaper instinct? If he had beon tex yoary younger, he would more fully have apgeciated tho advantaga to hitn of editing a pwspaper in the County dail, Even tho Fenech journalists, among 4vhom this conditid is not unusual, find it very profitable, jt Mr, Stoney let the op. portonity slip froqhim, Ho was alroady half a martyr. ‘Ho public was prepared, yesterday morning to get up in sympathy with him for the fir} timo in all bislife, ‘They opened the paperjand found thoir martyr gone, Instead of fears, thore was nothing buto broad guilawleft to tham, Instead of a persecuted journaliat, pining in a damp, noisome dungeon to sustain the palladium of Aniorican liborty, they found that an old gentloman had been sponding a few houra in the Jniler's privato parlor, drinking cham- Pagno and playing poker with his frionds, and then raturnod to is houso to a Inte ten and rotirement in his own bed nt tho usual hour, Thoro was no martyrdom hero, no chanco for sympathy, no opportunity for inerensing salon, But porhapsa the Snpremo Court may give tho old man another chance, RESIGNATION OF GEN. SPINNER, Tho country is somewhat familiar with tho name of Spinner, because of ite signature upon the national curroncy, greenbacks as Ono of tho issues of frac- tional currency was adorned with his por- Ifo entered office as ‘Treasurer of the United States in 1861, and lns held tho office ever since, Ho las now resigned, the resig- nation to take effect on the 1st of July next. Ho has been # faithful and Inborious officer, and ono whoso integrity hax nover been questioned. During lis fourteen years of service he has reecived many thousands of millions of dollars, aud tho losses by errors or the dishonesty of mbordinates have been very fow nnd comparatively very sinall. , Gen. Srixnen is n native of Herkimer County, New York, and for twonty yonrs was In 1815 be was nado Auditor, of the Naval Ofico in New York, and in 1854 was elected to Congross, aud was subsequently twico re-elected to the samo ofitce, Ho lad unquestionably all the requi- sites and oxperionca for tho important oflico of Tronsurer. He is now 75 yenrs old, and, though he retains much of his physical vigor, he hrs become somewhnt of an embarrass- ment to the ‘Treasury Departmont because of his opinions of his own superior knowledge For several yenrs ho ling not been content with tho well as fractional. an officer of a bank, obtaining reputation as a financial ora cle, Ho has been a voluminous writer, corresponding with persons in all parts of the world, and dolivoring ez-cathedra judg- menta upon all financial questions, in all their varied shapes ond circumstances. To has interlarded his roports as ‘Treasurer with essays and lectures upon financial topics, and has sought to impress his views upon not only tho Executive but tho Legislative branch of the Government, Ho has be- Noved himeclf to ba a shining Nght, and was not disposed to be hidden under a bushel. Te has of Inte had tho interconvertiblo 3.65 currency-bond fever violently, and has writ- ten on the subject volumninously, Of Into years ho has become crusty and obstinate, claming to bo dictator in his own office, and solo judgo not only of how many assistants ho should have, but who they should be and what compensation shonld be paid them. Gonerally ho has been allowed to havo his own way; but the present Secretary of the Treasory hns not been able to agreo with Gen. Srovver in all things. Gon. Spmvwrn’s general argument herotofore hes been that he Lately, when on Assistant ‘Yroasurer was appointed, ho objected, and domanded that a person of his own selection should beappointed, or he would resign. His selection was not confirmed, and the General promptly resigned, His resignation involves a necessity for counting all the money in the Treasury, and it is estimated that it will take from ndw to tho frat of July to do that, tho office, Gon, Sprexer will tako with him the gratitude of tho nation for tha integrity which has marked his sdministration of the The country had but few men compotetont to the task which for fourteen yoars ho has so faithfully and In- boriously performed. But fow men living have ever handled so much monoy as ho has done during his term, and! tho country will bo fortunate if his successor shall prove ay com- petent ond faithful as Gon. Sprvnen, EY THE LAND LAWS OF ENGLAND, Mr, Disnaztt has always hada weakness for making the Conservative party do Liberal the Reform act through Parliament, aftor a Liboral Ministry liad lost power on that vory question, act was so unexpectedly brond thatthe Lib- eral minority was somewhat afraid of it, and the party-whip hod to bo cracked constantly in ordor to keep the Tory squiros in tho traces, Baornor wittily says that mapy Lib- erals felt, whon tho bill was passed, like a man who has beon pushing against 1 door and is thrown forward on his faco by having it suddenly and violently opened from with- ‘Tho Conservative leader bas marked his present lease of powor by favoring threo dis- tinctively non-Consorvativo measures, ‘Ihe swooping sanitary legislation upon which wa have already commented is one, the Premicris coquotting with woman suffrage, and is actually relied upon—perhaps mis- takenly—to make s speech in support of the mensure. This would be rank Itadicalism, The Saturday Review, which is responsible for tho pithy epithet of “the shricking aister- hood,” would never forgive it, Finally, Mr, Disnaztt has told a delogation of farmers that his Ministry is proparing ‘tat this very mo- tnont” to legislate on the rights of tenants, When tho rights of tenants need dofenso, tho wrongs of landlords usually need rebuke, ‘Tho land-owning aristocracy is the backbone of Toryism, Parliament has beon called acon. wvention of land-monopolists, It has justified the title by the way in which it has froed this class from taxation, by tho cagor resentment it has shown when thelr intorests have beon affected, ond by the strenuous and suc. cessful opposition it has would resign, In retiring from duties of Treasurer, He engineered made to all of roal estate and #0 proventing the enormous accumulation of landed prop- erty in the hands of a few grent familios, Yot, now that tho sitting Parliamont repre- sents the triumph of such foclings, Mr, Dis- RAELI proposes to make it pasa a law which shall interfere decidedly with tho men who own land, for the boneflt of the farmors who rent land. ‘This isa curious jumble of crozs- Mr, Dieraura’s talk with the farmers—dur- ing which he told them that his bill * would give groat and genoral satisfaction to tho formors of tho United Kingdom "—{mplied a Ppromiso that the new act would obliga land. lords to pay tenanta whoso leases had expired or had been canceled the full value of all unexhausted improvements, ‘This obliga- tion is to bo so stringent that any contract in violation of it will be void. Such 9 pro- vision would, of course, give the tenant full socurity for tho capital Lo invested in his farm, aud would make it highly un. profitable, as a rale, for his landlord to evict ‘Thoro ia little doubt thot Parliament will enact the first part of this law, whioly requires compensation for unexhausted im. provements; but it will take all Mr, Disuarza's skill to carry the second, which puls above dictation and denies landlords the power to evade the law by insorting saving clauses in thoir leases. ‘Tho London 7ines saya that tho substantial power of oviction withont loss to tho Inndlord, howover rarely crorcised, ix tho secrot of tho social standing conforrod by tho ownership of nu ortato; that tho enjoyment of property depends } upon it; and that taking it away would involva the greatest of socint ravolu. tions, Novertheless, Mr. Dianarxr persists. Ho can flud plenty of precedonts in English lnw = for interference with froedom of contract. Tho Spectator quotes n dozen such, Te ean find, moreover, in Bexritam and Mint—strango toxt-books, to ho sure, for an Englist Conservativo—tho doctrine brondly Inid down that the right of property in Jand is prrely tho creatura of Inw and is, therefore, subject to itn crentor, A fow years ago, Guansronx carried tho Trish Land act, which protected tho rights of Trish tenants, ngainst tho strentons oppori- tion of tho English Conservatives, ‘To-day, Disnarnt proposes to make thoso samo Con- servatives pass an act which applics tho prin- ciples of tho Guansrone bill moro stringently and applies them on English soil! Both times und men have changed. Tho Memphis Appeal, the ultra-Bourhon paper in Wext Tonnesseo, gives prominent notice, aa do many of tho Sonthern nows- papers, to Tun Tamuxe's advico that the colored people of the South divide up be- tween tho differont political parties on other than race issuer,—in other words, that tho eolor line bo obliterated from politics by tho negroes thomselves, ‘The Apprat las much to say in favor of tho proposition, nnd mnin- ly, perhaps, because it argues increased Domo- eratio majoritica out of this now departure, overlooking tho fact, however, that when the blacks divide their votos the whites will divide thoirs also. It says significantly : ‘Tite Tninone seema to forget that tho Democratic politicians, both of the North and South, have always displayed romarkatile capacity for controlling the pop- ular massea, Thero haa always licone large clava of uneducated whites in the Southern States, bit thero ‘was no rection of the country whosa polilica, provious to the War, wero so compiotoly controlled by Ste Intolll- gent clasaes, But the Apprat evidently forgets that, be- foro tho War, tho public schools in the South wore comparatively fow and always poor. It was the purpose of the slaveholding oligarchy to keep the ‘ poor whites "of tho South in ignorance and mental darkness, and theroby enlist their support in tho maintenance of an institution opposed to thoir best inter- ests, It was tho general ignorance emong all outside of tho rich and highly- eduented people of the Sonth that enablod the slavoholders to oxerciso so completen con- trol of tho political expressions of the peo- ple. But it is manifestly wrong to nssumo that the samo thing can be dono horenfterand alwaya under a different condition. Tho free. school systom has at last attained a solid foot- ing in the South, and its bonefits will bo more and more ovident every year in tho extension of popularintelligonco, It is only a question of tine when this spread of popular knowl- edge will break down easto; and the political imperialism oxorcised by tho slavoholdors in slaveholding times will novor be rovived in the South, A subscription has been begun in England for the bouefit of Mr. Groncz Jacon Hor- YOAKE,—n man whose great efforts in bohalf of his fellow-mon have been mentioned in Tun ‘Trinvne with frequent praise. Ho has lived the comparatively obscure lifo of a journal. ist, and has devoted his leisuro time for many years to plans for social reform. Ho is ono of tho oldest and tho foromost co-oporatora in England, His “ History of Co-operation in Rochdale” led to the formation of 250 co- operative societies within two yoars, Ho hag beon engaged for somo time in tho prepara- tion of a gonoral ‘* History of Co-oporation,” which has boen eagerly expected by students of social scionco in both England and Ameri- ea, l-health has dolayed its completion, Mr. Tfonyoare's frionds beliove thathe will be able, if nfund is subscribed for his bonefit, to con- tinue his unselfish Inbora for n number of years, Tho Committee which has chargo of tho testimonial numbors the Rey. Srorvorp Duooze, Sir Cuan.es Ditxe, Troxas Huouss, and Prof. Wuxtex, among its mombors. About $4,000 has alrendy beon raisod im England. Tho Now York Z'ribune will receive and forward subscriptions from Amoricans, It is to bo hoped they may be many. Not fow citizens of thia country will remember with gratitude Mr, Honyoane's rendy syinpathy with their offorts to imitate, onanmall sente, in America the work he haa done for workingien in England. hoy will count it a privilege to contributo to the testimoniol in behalf of an untiring and un- selfish philanthropist, Ho rejecta, but de- serves, that proud tit! Tho remarkable murder caso which is setting Bouton and viciuity in a formout, acarcoly ra- ceivos ag muck attention ag it desorves. Tho facts havo been well published. It fa known thats boautifal snd accomplished woman, Mra. Manoaner Binasass, was murdered at bor own houso in the daytimo, and when othor persons woro near at hand; but the circumetancen of tho crime, and the chase and capture of the criminal, aro not matters of common notoriety. The murderer was o tramp or boggar; his motive was plunder. Ho wanted money to satiety hia appotite for drink; he obtained it by killing Mra, Bixarax in hor own houso and eolzing the small articlos of jewolry which she Sad about hor person, Ho made directly for a drinting- waloon, ond openly offored his booty foreulo, ‘I'he polico were ourly on the track of tho criminal, and bo was arrosted the third day after the murdor, Ilo wan idontified positively by the eatoon-keopor to whom ho had offered tho Jowolry for sale, and on hla perdon was found a ponkuifa belonging to Mra. Brvawaw. Ho waived 6 preliminary examination, and has boon com- mitted for trial. Ono obvious moral tobe doduced from this sad and ehocking caue rolates to tho duty of tho pox lico, Thera should maulfestly bo somo system of auparvision ovor tho numerous class of mpn- dicanta who go from house to house in Jarge cities, They are at tho best a noluanoo, and at the worst a positive menace to tho eafoty of the community, As long as tho only questions in- volved were those of proporty, it was easy to pardon a policy of non-intorference ; now that Iifo has boen lost, we may oxpect and demand extromer measures, —— Liquor legislation in Massachusotts {9 atiil one of tho dolights of the bucolic heart, and ono, too, that it is not Ukely soon to bo doprived of, Iftho Isat election in that Stato taught any- thing, it way that the people had become disaat- ised with the thoory of prohibition and dis- guated with its practice. Tho Lowor House of tho Loglstature oarly recognized thle fact by passing a reasonablo Liquor law, making valua- blo concossions to the foeling of tho poople, It Was supposed that the bill would pass the Ben- ato without radical amendment, But such ia not ibe caso, Tho Honate has patched the billin one place, aud torn it in anothor; and {t is now thoroughly unacceptable. Oue of the Senate amendments embodies the principle of local- opuon, another reatricta the grantiug of Hoousca toany but restaurant and hotel keopors, thus abolishing common drinking waloons. ‘The Honse will certaloly refuse to accapt thoso ead there is every prospect of & doad-lonk. Tho Republicans tnt votta Henne wha aro maintaining ophasition will bo, wo doubt not, to! accountability at the noxt cloction. Wo take ploasuro in noticlag the }j id 18 mantfosted on the Preltia Const towarda teed fortng poople of Kanuas aud Nobraske, 4, 4 oepocially tho activo offorts of Mr. Juny J, Vit ENTINE, tho officiont Goneral Supotintondont ve Wetts, Fanao & Co.'s Espresa, in collecting and forwarding those bonofactionn, "a We clip tho following from tho Atia-c; nia of the 20th inst, which shows meee been dono by that agoncy alono: a Bax Fraxctsco, March 10, 175, Marcel 1, aa por pitblished report to that {ributtons through Wrtts, Pando % to, to Ie aud Nobranka sulferera agaregated. $1 437"eq/ 0S! Urreney 3 ait remittances $17,009 current 2 $700 to Nobrarka aud $10,0%) 10 Kanaan eee Then foltows a liat of eighty Packages clothing and supplica, by whom piven ae tg whom sent, and alao €2,792,60 in coin and 51. 96 in curroncy, all collected and forwardea ra that £xprous Company iv tho firet ninoteen © Massrchn. this dogned Id to rgd of March, At the bottom {a appended a np appoal for further ald, showing that thoy do a consider tholr work yot fnishod. Surely, if corporations have no Bouts, thelr of. fleors may hava big hoarts and activo BY Mpathic for tho afllicted, és Mr. Danren M. Trepwent, ina PApOr on ‘* Evidouces of tho Prehistorio Migrations trop, Amorica to Polyyosis and Enatorn Asia," rect fow days ago before the Long Island Watoriey Society, showed that in vory carly times a yaa population was concontrated upon the Preigg conat of Amorica ; that, whilo ignorant of the at of navigation, thoy graw to great and Porefy nations, and, finally burating the barrior which tho ocoan tind Imposod, thoy spread themsetray over Eastern Agia, Polynesian, India, Pereis Egypt and Grecco. Thus tho march of ea, Piro fa shown to have followed the sun from 14, earliest times, and omigration to havo in compar. atively modern times but complotod actrelo whixy may have beon deacribod bofore, over and over again, PERSONAL, Srpxey Cowstn is snid to bo ongaged fer Day's Thoatro noxt season, Bishop Wnirrre, of Minnesota, Ia travolingly the West Indios for tho bonolit of his Loaltl, Mayor Joun J. Kreien, of Evansville, chy. lenges Mayor Mitonest and tho prees of Inti auapolis os spelling-mateh by tolegraph, Enaan A. Por is to havo a $1,600 monumets, ‘Tho necessary sum was ratsod for him by the Publica Behool Teachers’ Asuociation of Bat. more. Gam Hasntrtoy saya tliat Congrossman Hoo zn doos not savo the fuicy bita for hinwolf whi ho carves for ns numbor of guosts, Gan prey ably knows, ‘Tho ond-man of tho Crawford County, hh, Tulletin, wonta to know if it is not nearly wey enough for tho Weather Bureau to get alo without drawors, {azanp Bentuey, Prosident of the Pat Ma's Association, of Proston, Conn, wWolghed [35 pounds, and it took fifteen mon to lower himix. to tho silont tomb, Mr, Monraourer Soncy.en, the now manty- ing-oditor of the New Yori tWorld, bas badss. porienco in journaliam, Porhaps tho World nil bo improved, thon. Gov. Joun A Camrnett, who hag boon a pointed Aauistant Socrotary of State, Toft Chry. enno for Washington yesterday to assume thy dutios of his office. Matcotar Cannurnens, son of Jndgo C:- Rutaens, of Mompbiz, and ono of tho helretad oxccutors of tho Maxcorsr MoNxite oatste,{s stopping at tho Grand Pavific. Mr. W.8. Wanren (‘'Gideon”), Washingtes correspondent of tho Chicago Times, has t turned to the city for a short visit to bls fried, and fs stopping at tho Grand Pacific. ‘Tho Presidont and Mra, Grant, Col, aud Yr. Frep Gnanz, and Mr. and Mrs. Santont loin Washington to-day for New York. Tho Prue dent will not retarn boforo Saturday, An English paper proposes to ohock mu nago by stax on proposals. Just at prosen: it would appear that sn cncourayement of tle esremony would bo moro appropriate, Jesse Buerann, whoao voico has boon noticed in Washington, hns two voicos, One (a adeep, mellow bass, and the othor a rich woprano. Tae two togethor form a double-barrol organ. Littlo Wxtsren Buonst, of {Knoxvillo, fred s bullet ont of s pistol with hig right hand, wd canght it with his left, He will bo a right hasdy chap until bo gots his loft out of tho aling.> Burlington Hawk-Eye, J. Careven Goonwin, author of “ Evangeline.” haa written a bright comedy for Mr, W. Hl. Cnane, of this city, antittoed “Don Quixote, Jr.” which will be played at Hoonry'’s Saturday night for Mr. Crane's benoflt. 4. R. Houant, editor of the Jacksonville Daily Journal, aunounces that ho lias sold his new paper-intorest to M, EF. Sxrsons, of Merico, Mo., who will succocd Lim April 8 It isan dorstood that Mr. Honanr is soon to becom editor of the Chicago Courier. Jacon R. Hart, ono of tho woalthlest ani most respected citizens of Laporto, died 00 Monday at that placo. Ho was 68 yoars old, an] weu ono of tho first settlors of tho country, ie lonvea a wifo and alergo family to mourn bis Joes, Tho Hon. A. 8. MoDrex, of Wisconsin, arrived at tho Shorman Iouso yesterday on his *3f home, whero he ie to tako charge of the Sluts Inaane Agylum, which position ho resigned {0 yoars ago to take hia goat in tho Forty-third Cua gross, Senator Joux P, West, of Honry County, Is. has sout hla resignation to tho Governor, ko boing about to remove to Californis. Hove sont to tho Iowa Logistature in 1861, serve! through the War as a private in the Fourth lov Cavalry, and at tho clogo of the War was reure' tothe Legialature, ‘Tho Mon, Ernnant TT, Sangonp {s in the city. Ho iasecking roliof from Kansas grasshopper! ina most industrious way, and hopos that hia labors will not bo in vain, Ho hee eviden'ly been working hard for sweet charity's sake, he looks very much exhausted, Ho will call 9 our business mon, Mr, W, IL, Onane, of this city, soems to hav? mot with aserioa of mivadvoutures recentlt. ‘That gorgeous storo apring ovorcoat in which be envelopes his manly figure bas 6 hidoons geab i one aide, into which he ingenioualy thraste be handkorchiof to delude tho aimple into the ; Hef that it isa pocket, It must havo boon at with a vory dull Imifo, ‘Luckily, he has » bent on Saturday, We hoar of somo Chicago newspapers pete before the fire now solling at 6100 4 copy. a Jour, who hos safely fllod away a number & choice old Tanunes, mixed with an cecaslont Times and Republican, is anxious to know Uuat ia the prico for ordinary tssueg, how BN Mr. W. F. Stoner will pay for a cartaia Ta! containing # sensation article hosdod Bloudes."—Rock Jaland Union. he folo Tho Paris American Register tolla the ing story of Chicagoans abroad: Varia: cet Bauyes, E, Bannys, 2. Besnprot, Mise E. m fl pict, A. Bonn and lady, W. Bonp and Indy, i: Buncu, W. B, Cuatviery, D. W. ernie Cownxs and family, J. A. Coren and fr Mr. and Bra, Diowxxson, MansuaLt Mist Mr, Fizrp, Mre, Fisiten, L, G. Fuuehs Mod Visuen, Mr, and Mri. Fooa, E. H. Gauve family, Tuzopoax Qnuanuena, W. 8. ‘Me Mru. ©. Hexruet, 2, W. Hosen Hunren, Vuaxx and Miss Kate L 8. Nioxzssan and wife, Xavien L. 4. J. Roomy, Miss Nona Boorr, Aira. B. wath Srpwev Watuen, A, Wiexeen, Houck Typ gud wifo; Nico: Mr, aud Mrs. Gnang Dow Svarpmia snd fomily b London: W. a id family, 6. owns, G, Lat E. Scots, i. H'Tayton and fasally, 2, Waa and Air, and Mrs. Wood,