Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1875, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE MONDAY, MAY 3, 1876. e _—_— e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RITRR OF SURSCRIPTION (FATARLE IN ADYANCR). Postago Prepald nt this OMces Daity, 11e8r, 00,5134 | Weakly, 1 5 8 ign 19 100 [ Elve coplo o Tl S0 et 30 doubleshe: e rate, nt fn each fown aed village. with suen. Parteof a yearat th WANTED-Une activi Spncial serangemeats m Bpecimen copls you! free, ¥ To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post. ©3ce address In full, inoluding State and County, Remittaneos may bomade aither by draft, expross, Post Ofce ordor, ot In registored letters, atour risk, TERMA TO CITY AURICRIRENS, Patly, delivered, Sunday excented, 23 ventaperwask, Delly, deliversd, Bunday fncluded enty por weaks Address T THR TRIBUI PANY, Corner Madison and Dearhor; lesgo, Tl —e TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. HOOLRY'S THEATAF. Olarx and LaSalle. Emorsol ndaloh ntrsst, batweem Minstrels, M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison atreet, hetween Donthora and Btate. Engagement af the Farislan Opera-Doulle Troupas ** Girbfle-Girofls," ACADEMY OF MUSIO-Halsted ntreat, hetwsen Mad- teen and Munros. Rngsecmentof the lmily Boldene Troupe. ** Madsme Angot's Davghtor.” . st iiltio] ADRLPAITHEATRE= ra0, Varisks Katertainwont. EXPOSITION BUILDING~Take.shore, toot o Adarss stresk Kahibition of Palntings. » ey thorn atrest, corner Mon- “BLBINESS NOTICES. TIOW_SELDOM WE BRE A SPLEXDID TNIEAD OF halrl From sckuose, ozessite Inbor, or negleet, thou- zands ind thole Waie'gruduslly wating sway, [irsott's Covanfao w1l repair this wasta, The Ovcuaing bs a er- fect Hale Drossing - promiotar of tha growih nf ih —n proparatlon Irae Irum heriating matior, 14 bas gront: ity for tho tuman skio—is rapldly absorbed and fme parta lustrs and atrength. TURAL DAPIINES, WO ONLY NEED A ORR- tatn d -licacy of complexioa fo randor them as brsutifal as 1l falroat ety boll uld follow tho oxampleof el Jyetropoiiten, Maters, who owe v e e ot | Lais 0 l's * Hioam of Yunth' ihis eloment of retined lovelinoss, Sold byall drugglsts. The Chicagy Tribune, Monday Morning, May 3, 1875. An anthoritative statement of the Trens- ury Departmont's construction of tho recont, decision in referenco to the nct of Congress crenting interior ports of entry s furnished Ly onr Washiugton correspondent, and will ‘be found in another column. Mention is mado in our Washington dis- potehos of & novel and remarkable invention in tho shape of an entirely now motive power. 1t conslsts in tho generntion of ** cold steam ™ from water and air, which, it is claimed, will entirely do awny with the necessity for coal and wood in gonerating steam, and thus rev- olutionizo tho present system of motive + power, Mr., Monat IArsTrAD, editor of the Cincin- nati Commercial, while in New York last weck, communicated to o Sun interviewer gome intereating facts, opinions, and specu- Iations concerning the, Presidentinl outlook for 1876, and a8 Mr. HarsTeEAD seldom tatke without saying something, the render will be entertained, if not instructed or influenced, by our republication of the interviow. The Sonthern Senntorinl cronkers, who utter dismal predictions as to the effect of Attorney-General PreuncroNt's *‘conservo- tive® policy toward the South, and Lhis failuro to follow in the foot- stops of his predecessor, conld servo the Republican party to better ndvantage by going lome and exorting themselvea in bo- half of such a condition of affairs in the South ns will leave no oceasion for the exer- cise of nuy policy, whether consorvative (whatever that. is) or otherwiss, on the part of the Law Department of the Nationnl Government., Thoso Repub- lican Senators pay o poor complic ment fo the intelligonce and good sense of the Southern people whon they prophery n wholesala desertion to the ranks of the Democracy because o great lawyer, and not & mere politician, Lolda the position of Attor- noy-General. Wo approbend no such result af the appointment of Judge FixaneeoNs, In cose,the pending examination of the work thus far dono on the Chicago Custom. Tlouso #hall dovelop defocts necessitating the onrifig down of the walls and foundations, there is ronson to fear thnt nothings ean be dono in the matter until gpecial anthority is obtained from the next Congress. Such, nt least, is tha construction placed upon aclause in alaw passod last winter, forbidding any changoe of plan involvingan expense exceed- ing 10 per cont of tha estimated cost, unloss by authority of Congress. If this view iz taken by the Beorotary of tho 'Tronsury, the building scason of 1876 must bo wasted so far as the Chicago Custom. Ilousa Is concerned, and the torm of construe- tion will be prolonged another year, It wonld seom, however, that this is a forced and illog- ical construction of tho law, and that it in ap- plied to nn emorgenoy or contingenoy nover contemnplated by Congross, whose spocial an- thority ought not to bo necessary for the tearing down of walls and foundutions which are nscertnined to bo unsafo and worthless, and which must come down in any event. Our usun! Monday morning budget of re- ligious matter contning a sermon by the Rev. 1r. Posr, of thoe Holland Prosbyterinn Chnreh, on *“Tho Truth of Prophecy,” in which be views, as something intho nature of a divine instrumentality, Brastanck’s hostility toward Ultramontanisn in Germany; also, sermons by the Rabbl Konten on * Judaism in America™; by tho Mev, Mr, Wruriausox, Methodist, on * The Duty of the Citizon on Zlection-Day™; and by the Rev. Baoore Teororp in conmection with the Sun. day evening serics of Unitarian acrvices at Tooley’s Thontre. An account is given of the dedication of the TFifth Presbytorian Church. From outside our own city weo learn of the mrrangements made by the fol. lowers of “* Adirondnck” Munuay, the horse- loying parson of Boston, whose disngreenent with the soclely of which Le was pastor hns resulted in the socuring of various public halls for the Lolding of Bunday and weok- night sorvices, In Milwaukeo yesterday, tho Fourth Cougregationn! Church tried the ex- perimont of worshiping in the Acadomy of Musio, and were successful in altracting a crowd too large for the auditorium to con. tain. The coremonies sttendant upon the consecration and investiture of Bishop Wirr. wus as & Roman Cotholie Archibishop in Boston yesterday are duly described by tele. graph, The Chicago produco mnrkets Were unset. tled on Saturday, Mess pork was very quiet, but a shads firmer, closing at $22.00 askod for cash, and $22.25 for June. Yard was dull and Tjo per 100 bs higher, closing at $15.63 cash, and $15,75 TorJune, Moats wore quist aud firmer, at 8}o for shoulders, 11}c forshort ¥ibe, and 12Jo for short oloars. Lake freights waere dull and unchsnged. Highwines were fanative and tame st 1,14 per gallon. Flour Was i (aly dsmand aud steady, Wheat was nctive and eagior, closing at $1.04] for May, and $1,073 for June, Comn was loss nctive and a shade lower, closing at 75}o for May, and 76jo for June, Oats were quiet aud stondier, closing at 623 for May, and 63jo for June, Riyowas quict and stendy at $1.07, Barloy was little better than nominal, at $1.30@1.92 for cash No. 2, Hoga were fairly activo and steady, with most of the trading at $7.70@8.00. The extreme range was 87.00 @9.00. Cattle were dull at weak and frreg- ulnar prices. Snles at $3.50@6.37 for inforior to extra. The sheop market was dull and nominal, ———————— Chieago will be without a dramatio enter- tainment of any description during the pres- ent week,~an event which has nover beforo Tinppened in this city ih the midst of the legitimnto amusement season. Wa might al- most sny, also, that Chicago will bo without any musicnl ontertuinment during the prosent weok, since it will be devoted fto operabouffe, which con only bo called musical by an unusupl effort of the imnginatlon. For once the nonscnso and buffoonery of the French hna full sway in the city, and theatre.goers havo a bill of fare to chooso from which includes only the noughty * Daughter of Mme. Angot," the equivocal and eccontrie * Madame L' Archi- due,” ¢ Chilperic,” and that extraordinary double, * Girofle-Girofla," As nono of theso, howaever, aro as bad sa they might bo, and all of them are charactorized by an outside or- namentation of such brillinney and sparkle, wo presumo the moralitics of the city will not suffer materially, and those who must go somewhero for entertainmont will find them- selves sufficiontly amused, notwithstanding Thalin aod Melpomeno Lave put up their shntters nntil next weok, ** A littlo nonsenso now and then is relished by the wisest men,” THE MEETING TO-NIGHT. The public meeting to give expression to the public judgment concerning tho recent doliberate frauds upon the ballot-box in onler to forca on the city an entirely new chartor, will be held at McCormick's Hall to-night. Thero should be a large attendance. The fraud was a wholesale one, and wns delib- erate. It was boidly and unblushingly car. ried ont, The hircling instruments wero publicly and ostentatiously hauled about the city from poll to poll, and their deliberate ro- ponting performed without any attempt at secrecy or disguise, 'The purpose was pro. claimed,—the fraudolent votes polled were polled avowedly to earry the charter, which tho publio ot large Lad been led to believe wad to ba rejected unsnimously. Such a proceeding has never beon perpotrat- ed on s0 cxtensive a scale in this city beforo, and the question to be consid- cron ot the meoting to.night is, Shall it beeome the rule in Chicngo for the future? Shall all our clections bo controlled by the gang of a fow bundred professionnl criminals who havo recently undertaken to run the city, control the courts and jurics, determine official appointmonts, and give immunity to crime? Is the City Govornment to pass into the handy of these people, not only indirectly but directly? Is the Mayor to bo solected by tha chiefs of the slums, nud i an election to the Common Council to ba decided over n faro-table? If the people of Chicago mow refuso to take notico of this open and undis- gnised froud at the so-called charter election, and, by acquiescance, sanotion the stuffing of ballot-boxes and election returns without poll-books or poll-ligts, then thera can be no complaint hereafter when this shall become the establishod rule, n The present city charterhas some restraints upon the Common Connoil and upon ita powers to tax ; the charter of 1875 hes evon more stringent restraints, sad has a peremp. tory limit upon the rate of taxation; but the chartor of 1872 abolishos all restrictions, and transfers all governmontal control and power to the Common Council ; and this Common Council may increase the direct tax from 805,600,000 of lnst yoar, to 910,000,000 or $12,000,000 this yoar, and with Jike indefi- nite incrense overy year. For this threat- encd revolution in the law and government of the city, the 100 professional criminals who engincered . tha frauds and procared their oxecution st the so.called election on the 23d of April aro responsible. For this crime agninst law, good order, the integrity of eloctions, and popular governmont, theso poople are to De arraigued to-night, They nre to Le accused and denounced for an at. tempted revolation not as brave or ns daring na that attempted by the hot-hends in New Orlenns Inst Beptember, but equally infamons, and accomplished by the far moro disroputa. ble agencies of fraud, forgery, porjury, and Lribery. Tha threntoned revolt of tho Communists a few months ago, demanding that money and property be distributed among them, was bat the silly vaporing of a few reckless mon; this clection fraud of Friday, April 23, was a deliberate ravolution planned and executed by tho criminal class to get all municipal power vested in the Common Council, which body they ean easily control, Let, therefore, every man who favors a purs and honest ballot-hox, and nn honest City Government, go to the meoting to-night, B e —— THE DANGER OF NEW YORK. ‘Wo have been whiting with some curiosity to seo whother the New York World and other papors of that city, which devote so much spacoe to wholesalo and malicious criti. cism of the exposure of Chicago to danger from fire, with the intention of prejudicing the investment of insurance capital here, would improve the opportunity to point o moral from the recent destruction of the Union Lengue Club-Flouse, Wa have also waited with somo curiosity to see whether Gen, Buaver, who has roturned to that city disappointed with Lis barren labors lhore, would remind New York of the canses which led to the destruction of that fino building, and of tho reforms which should bo made bo- foraa new club-house is orected. Noither the papors nor Gen. SraLen, however, have warned the authorities of Now York of their plain duty inthepromises. The papens arntoo busy inabusing Chicago nud Oshikosls, and Gen, Suaren's oxecutive {slent is at prosout too closely conconirated upon the Irish Rifle ‘Tenm, to notice what ia going on bofore their oyos. It therofore becomos ucoassary to ro. mind them that the Union League Club- Housoe was nu clegantly-decorated fire-trap, Had the architeot been o professional fucen. diary, ho could not have designed a building. with finer convenlences for a conflagration. Tlaving run it up, as high as water would reach, of brick and stono, ho then topped it with o woodon Magsard roof, which water conld not reach. Haviug given it ample waterial for fire to work upon placed where the firemen could ugt reach it, he then con- structed the interlor so nato nfford a power. ful draft to the flames, nnd guarantce thoe destruction of the concorn. And it was dostroyod. New York Oity Is full of just such bulldings as the Union Lusgus Olub- House, huge flre and six story brick or stone Dlocks, crowned with plenty of kindling wood, beyond the reach of firemon, in tho shapo of wooden Mansnrd roofs, and plastered all over with wooden nigns, and go constructed both externally and intornally as to resist tho offorts of firemen, Thin being the caso, it is somewhat curious that the New York press keops up such n savage onslaughtupon Chicago without rofer- onee toits own defects, so far ns protection against firo is concorned, The fact, however, very clearly indivates tho animus of its eriti- cism, and shows that its only purpose is to injuro Chicago nud its business by cousing the removal of insurance eapital, Moanwhile, would it not be well for the Natlonal Board of Undorwriters to investigate tho cir- cnmstances of the recont burning of tho Union League Club-House, nand to direct an exnmination of the means of protection agninst fire possessed by Now York? Would it not be well for Gen. 8maten to bring his remarkablo execu- tive ability and gonius for reforms to bear upon New York? With ita wooden-roofed buildings and ita political Fire Department, who knows but that the next great firo may break out in some of its rotten rookeries and tenoment-hiouses, and carry destruction throughout the city ? A BUSINESS-LIKE TRIAL. The wife of n prominent navy officor was recently knocked down in Sixth nvenuo, New York, by n bold desperado snd robbed of hor purse. Instend of adopting the usual female expediont of faluting away, she immediately nroso to her foot and raised an alorm. A policoman happened to be near at hand. He gave chase to the dosperndo, followed him into n nost of thioves, kept off the ruffinus with hia rovolver, and took his prisoner to tho station.-honse. The next morning tho Indy appesred and testified ngninst him. He was promptly indicted, nnd the sco- oud dny was tried, found guilty, and sen- tenced to eighteen yeara’ imprisomment in the Penitontinry. His experience as a highe waymnn lasted just two days. Onae caunot sufliciently admira the prompt and summary manuer in which justice was moted out to this scoundrel, and the business.like way in which it was done, When the Indy called for halp the policoman was not half a milo away, a3 policemen ave in somo cities, When ha nrrested his prisoner, he did not lose his man Dy not knowing how to use hin revolver, as linppens to some policemen. Theindictment which was procured ngainst him turned out tobon good owe instend of a bad one, as happens in some places. The trinl was ended in s day instend of a month or six months, Tho sentence was short, sharp, decisive, snd adequate, instead of Leing o farce, 85 has happened In other places. There seems to have been no subter- Fuges of shysters, no tampering with the ju- ry, no tedions delays, no brow-beating of the Court, no nssemblage of roughs and bruisors to intimidate the jurymen, no perjuring of witnesses, no lack of moral cournge upon the part of the Court, no buying off of the com- plainant, no sudden illnesses, nor mysterions disappaarances from the city, The iron was struck while it waa hot, and justics was vin. dicated. There i3 nothing which oan strike such terror to ‘brutes and flans as the prompt administration of retributive justice, and the knowlodge that they eannot eacape the ponalty of the luw by the artifices of cunning shysters or the pressure of the mob, For this reason, it would not be alto- gother innppropriate to obtain tho official record of this oase, frame it and hang it up in the court-rooms of Chicago as a good prec- edent to follow, A fow cases treated by such n progoription would rapldly reduca the ruf- flanism which is practiced with so much im- punity in this city. THE IRJUNOTION CASE. The question whother the Courts havo the power to enjoin municipal corporalions in such ensos &8 the one presented to Judge “WrLntaus in the matter of declaring the chinr- tor ndopted, will bo heard, argued, and proba- bly dotermined, this week. It is a question of considernble importance in one sspect. If the Court shall decido that this is a case of the class where such such an injunction may be issued, nnd that the facts are of a charac- ter justifying such an injunction, then the present {emporary injunction will be made perpetual, subjoct, of course, {0 an sppesl to the Suprema Court. If, howaver, the Conrt should reach the do- cision that the Gommon Conncil have no dis- cretion over the returns; that its authority is merely to ascertain, declnre, and put on record tho returns of tho election jndges as made ; and that the cxercise of this power does not deprive the community of an nde- quate remedy nt law, by which tho validity of the election may bo judicially detormined, and thet an injunction against such cauvass ficial aotion under tho chartor of 1872 fot the presont. Thon, upon that state of faots, tho caso could be heard by tho Court npon ita merits, and n deciston reached, both v the Cireuit and Suprome Courts, in a much shorter time than in any other way. Thero is dangor of complicationa in this business of swapping constitutions. If this charter of 1872 bo adopted note, it Is a ques. tion whether there ean ba any election under it until April nost, whila tho terms of tho presont city officers expira in Decombor next. If tho clinrter bo tied up beyond November, thero must be nu election this fall of now officers under the old charter; and if the whola business ba finally detormined at some date n yoar lience, then thero will be a fur- ther complication, during all of which tine the city will be embarrassed in its government and in its oredit Ly this unsottled state of affairs, While it is nll.important that these frauds may ba defeated, it i4 also important ought not to issue, then tho present tempo- rary injunction will be dissolved. Dut isthis the end of the matter? The law provides a mode by which specinl elections of this kind, upon questions submitted to the vote of the people, moy be contested. There can, how- over, ba no contest of an oloction the result of which is not officinlly declared. In onsa the temporary injunotion be dissolved, tho Council will, of courso, at oncs declare tho result of the clection of April 28, and a bill will be filed, a8 roquired by law, contesting tha olection. An injunction to restraln a Board of Can- vassers porforming the mero clerical duty of tabulating the returns of an olection, and an- nouncing the number of afirmative and the number of negative votes, is one thing, but an injunction restraining any officer or other person assuming or exerclaing functlons in consequenco of the declaration of such a ro- sult, is another thing, Tho issns will be again ralsed whother a Court may not, after tho Council has declared the result of the eloction, substantlally enfoin the sybstitution of tho new charter of 1872 in place of the old one, pending the hoaring of tho bill in chancery contesting the validity of that elec- tion. If the charter ia to be put into opera- tion and be actually enforced while the con- teat of the cluction is trying, then the wholo question which it is proposed to contest will bo determined beforehand, and the contest be & mero waste of timo, If it bo true that the Common Council have no power over theso roturns savo o ascertalu and announce the vote aa roturned to that Doard, then thelr nction must be to Qeclare tha charter adopled, Until the resnit of this oleotion is thus doclared by the Com. mon Council there can be no coutest or hearing of tho case on its merits, and all things mnust be consldered temporary, It is pousible, howdver, that upon filiug of the ‘wholo tostimony in the case the Court may modify tha present injunotion to tho extout of permitting the Common Chuncil to can. vasa the rotwrns and doclare the rosult, but further enjoin the Mayor, Conuuon Oouncil, and all the aificers af tha city, from any of. that o decision by the Courts ba reached at the earliest practicablo period, and thorefore that course which is the most diroct is of ne- cessity the most ndvianble, THE NATIONAL REVENUE, The fiscal yearof the United Biotes ends Juno 30, The Treasury Dopnrtment estimated that the receipts during the year ending Juuo 80, 1875, would ba ¢ Fron customs, From tuterust "The actual receipta for the ton monthis end- ing April 80 were: From cusloms,, From interual Total veeavnemeeen tovens o $22L610,871 Iu order to equal the estimates, there must bo received during May and June: ¥rom custopa, From {nternal $101,732,0°0 80,768,870 9,250,000 15,230,000 Totalicessrsasrvanna, eovaeneses 43,500,000 The late Congress tinkerod the rovenuo laws twice during tho Inst sossion: first, by what is known as the Little Taziff bill; and, socond, by tha Dawsa bill incrensing tho du- tics on tho bulk of tho imporis 10 per cent, and incrensing the tax on whisky, This law went into oporation early in March, but as whisky on hand was not taxed there has been no apprecisble increase of revonue from that sourco. It is mora than probable that whisky made before the increase of the tax, and therefore not subject to the incroase, will continue to be sold for years to como, ‘The tinkering of tho tarif has failed to in- cronge the revenae from imports. Thers has been & large decline in imports. The valus of the iron and steel, wool and woolens, cot- ton, sitk, and linen goods imported in 1872 was $287,789,688; in 1873 the value was £185,219,5645; and in 1874 it was only $139,- 707,127. 8o far na the present yoar has pro. gressed, the falling off is in tho same propor- tion. In the moantime the quantities of gooda in warchouso as compared with previous yonrs lias declined seriously. Nor has there boen nany corresponding increase of homo production in theso lines of manufactures. 'The fact is that fourtoen years of continued protective taxation has consumed the pur- chasing means of the people. Wo are no longer ablo to buy of other nations, and no longer able to buy of home manufacturers, The laborers employed by the latter are so taxed upon all thoy consume that they cannot live upon the wages they receive. ‘The man. ufacturors, having & reducod market and a reduced demand, are unable to advance wages, The result is commercial stagnotion. To help on the genoral dopression Congrees added ad- ditional taxea upon all tho masufactured goods entering into general use, and oxpeclod there- by to increase consnmption, As If people already impoverished would buy more goods bocatse the prico was advanced 10 or 16 per cont ! Woaro therefore monufacturing less and importing leas, bocausoe the people are unable to purchaso; and, 04 a consequence, it is pos- siblo there will be a doficiency of rovonno at the end of the year. Had Congress, instead of increasing the taxes on tho great lines of manufactures, reduced them, and reduced them largely, and retained the purely revenuo taxes on tea and coffco, thero would have besn an increased demand for both foreign and do- mestic goods ; there would be more revenus for the Government, more labor employed, moro mills in full operation, and the great body of the people would have more goods for their money, THE RHEDIVE-RIRG, The *Enstern question " that puzzles states. men's braing to.day is: * What ia the Khe. dive of Egypt doing, nnd what does he mean to do?" 'The first part of the query mny bo answered, but tho second muet wait till time brings tho reply. The Govornment of Egypt is not an out. growth from the people. It is not even in sympathy with thom, Its activity, ite civil- izing processes are wholly at variance with their traditions, their faith, their nature. ‘Will Khedive or subjects prove the utronger ? Tlis vast power and thoir vast inertnoss mokes the problem resemble tha old ono of tho ef- fact of an frresistible forca upon an immova- ble body. ‘The Egypt of to-day ialike the Pyramlds vencered and varnished, A thin crust of clvilization covers doop strats of bar. barism. The littls leavon may loaven the whole lump, or the crust may bo shatterod and dostroyed by the strong forces it now confines, Tho Khedive has donoe a great deal, and ia doing more. Egypt owes to him her rail- roads and canals; the gigantio irrigation- works which have mede the Delta so much more productive and have groatly swelled tho aggregate yield of sugar and cotton; eanitary improvementa ; an army with tralned officers and with schools for the soldiers; n fow printing-presses ; improvements in agricul- turo; increased security; and a varioty of social innovations. Among the latter, the most swoeping are those which rolate to the condition of women, Bchools lave been opened for girls, * whero,” as Ouantzs Dup- rxy Wanyen pata it, * somothing ia tanght Dbeaidos the Koran.” Thou, too, the marriago of girls under 16 hos beon prohibited. If this law oan be enforced, the good done would bo great, but as yot it is only on the statute- book, and has mads &light impresaion on the Egyptian habit of marrying gitls of 11 and converting them, before they aro 20, into faded matrons with numberless offspring. It is a great step gained, howevor, that tho schools for girls are popular, At first, at- tendance upon them had to bo made com- pulsory, but the neceasity for this has disap- pearsd,—a hint to opponents of compulsory oducation here. Yet, is-there much to bo hoped for in the improvenient of the con. dition of Egyptian women wlen the centro of Tgyptian clvilization, tho Ehedive himsclt, majutaing harem with 500 inmates, besides his four legitiuinto wives P Tho trouble with the new eivilization 1s that it iy daspotic and inclined to mouopolies. ‘The Khedive is tapidly becoming the cwner townard the South. of all the Iand. Ho is the greatest farmor in in tho country, Ie handles most of tho trade. Ho is tho great manufacturer. His sixtocn sngar factories, some of them worth over 1,000,000 npiece, grind out sugar at A loss, although tho labor is improssed and wretchedly nnderpaid, Por- haps the ‘““nlthongh ™ shonld read “hecanse.” The taxes aro vory heavy, Land is taxed one-fourth or one.half of its annual yicld. Every pnlmetreo and ovory water. wheel pays 8 geparate tax. Tho revenio i practically farmed out, nud the exiortions and wrongs of this barbarous method of col- Iection malke the lot of the masses a wretched one. Despite the enormous revonue nnda constantly incrensing issuo of bonds, the Government is nlwnys in need of money, and is now paying 17 per cont for temporary loana, ‘Where doea this money go to? The army costd a great deal, for it is renlly the common sehool of the nation, and it {s constantly busy, too, in pushing the narca of the Kingdom The navy is an expensive toy. The harom costs fortuncs. Tho civil sorvice, the railroad service, the courts, the incessant metivity of the Government in overy branch of progress,—all theso things drain the public purss, Tho expense of supporting o phantom Parlinment, which doos nothing and strongly objecta to keepingalive, is no moan item, Of course, thoro is any amount of wasto, The Khedive has forty palaces already andis building threo more, Finally, the snnual tribute to Turkey, tho recognition of the Sultan's shadowy suprom. ncy, absorbs great sums. s tho Khedive really nttempting to mnke nvast African Empire,” nsks Mr, Wanner, “oris he only endeavoring to suck out tho riches of tho South forlis dopletod treasury 2" It socms to us that ho s trying to do both, To make an Empiro, he must mako money as woll g8 create civilization, 8o he scoks to olovate tho condition of his Immadinte sub. jocts, to strengthon his Empire, and to in- cresso tho taxnble arcaat one and the same time, 'The picturc Egypt presentsisn Gov- ernment that loves encrgy ruling a people that hates onergy. Anywhore elso the peo- ple would win, but an Oriental despotism is a strangoly strong power, and this intelligent despotism mny carry ite point. , Tho forty centurics on the Pyramids must look down with calm nmnzement upon the fuss and fury of this forty-firat, THE HARPER DEFOSITS, Tt will be romembored thot 3r, Hanrer, the late Grain Inspector, was charged with being in arrears, or short in his cash account, and that in explanation of part of the alleged deflcioncy it was given out that ho hed $10,000 on deposit In the Cook County Na- tional Bank. Upon this point the Spring- field Register of April 28 says: . incs the report of the Investigating Committes of thielate General Assombly, certain facts bave just come Into aur poescsslon which show that in making daposlis, and otlerswise disponing of tho Slale funds, Ar, HARrRE Uas been acting under authorily outslde of higoflico, Itisknown that hehos n doposti of 10,000 in tho Cook County Nutlonal Dank, which de- posit was made, it is alleged, by the direction of the Govarnor, for the purposo of befng wsedas the basls of & credlt for W Inter-Ouean, Nr, Ariew, Presidont of the bank, AMr, Paruxm, of the Jnfer-Ocean, and Anpen's bondsmen, can eonfirm this siatemenl, in substance, at least, It this statement of the Register bo true, it will be accopted by many as a partinl ex- planation, nt lenst, of the sceming deflance with which Mr. Hazees troated tho offort to suspend or remove him. Many will accept this statemont as ghowing that Mr, Hanren did npot believe he would be removed so long aa thisdeposit, made under such cirenm. stances, was unsottled. Tho change in the oflica hns been slow and protracted, snd it is supposed that this Is to give time in which Mr. Hanren can be relioved of responsibility for this $10,000, It is not likely that tho Stato will bo forced to suatain the loss. The eloments of Nature seem to have a speciol spite against tho South, Last sum- mor and fall grent floods swept away thou- sands of dollars’ worth of property inthe Val. ley of the Mississippl, and, since the new year came in, tornadocs havo beon busy keoping up tho work of destruction, In February, tho Town of Houstonia, Mo., was visitod by a tornndo which destroyed the buildings, killed 6 people, and wounded 17 others. In March, Rionzi, Miss., was nearly destroyed, G persons wore killed, and many injured, and a water-spout burst at Fayetteville, Tenn., causing great destruction of property. A sec. ond tornado at Rickland, 8.- C,, killed 2 persons ond §njured mony others. The third swept over Georgia with unparalloled fury, involving a loss of hundreds of thou- sonds of dollars, killing 800 peoplo, snd maiming many more. The fourth struck in Louisiana, lilling sovernl negroes. The fifth killed 6 persons in Mississippi and injured 25 others. In April, a tornado Lillod 6 persous at Littlo Rock, Ark. May opened with a tor- nado at Columbis, 8., 0., which wrecked many houses, killed 1 person and injured many. Inall, thero have been eight torna- doos in the Bouth since the 1st of January, killing about 860 persona and injuring hun- dreds of others, and destroying property to an amount reaching the millions, second letter to the Now York Zribuno on the nominal sub- ject of French finances hns a cortain resom- blance to AnTemAs Wann's lecture on tho #Dabes in the Wood," in that it doea not touch upon its supposed theme untll the very end, Mr, McCurroou tells us that tho Fronch are economical, industrious, thrifty, oto, Very well; wa havo hoard all this be- fore, The typical Fronch cook who boils tho shadow of an ogg in four gallons of water and produces firsl-clasy ohicken-soup hes been familiar to us from infancy. But what hos this to do with tho management of national, not indlvidual, finnnces? At tho ond, Mr, McCurroon tells us that Fronch financlers Linve aimod at complete freo trade, ~—which, by the way, is & complets mis-state- mont,—and that thoy have brought down the preminm on spacie by contracting the voluma of peper and hoarding coin in the vaults of the Bank of France. Here we got o glimpso of something of value, ‘Cho point that France is alwaysable to borrow becauso she nover talks or thinks of repudiation is woll put, In fact, the whole letter is interesting, and if it wero labeled * French Clarscteristics in- stead of ¢ Fronch Finances,"—in other words, 1£ it did not preteud to be what it {g not,—it would not bo necessary to eriticise it e ———— Yonmemite, not Yo Semite, {s tho approved way of writiug the name in Callfornla and in other parts of the country whero the subject bas boen couutdored by compotent authority, The old disouaslon aa to sho propriety of the Drut-given orthography hse, boweyor, boen renewod, and tho usual acrimony sbout it is belug wanifestod The Alla California comes to the reacue with sbundsnt resourocs. It shows that the Lest publications use Yossmite thas the local cuk- tomis in favor of it; snd that general ussge Bow repadiates the barbarous pracilce unes com mon on the frontler of apelling Indian names so a8 to make & meparato word of oach syllable, or connecting them with s hyphen, Thus, peoplo onco wrote Tx Cua Ben or Tg-Cox-8gm, but wo do not bother with any such nonsonsn. Nor do wa writo Bo Noma, or 'T'e Ilams, or Co Loma, sl of which would be quits aa reasonsble as Yo Bemite. ——— Tt mr}r!pd that ke Doard of Dircctors of & cer- tain Jife-insursnco cotpany ling disangroved of the action of tlie President In luanlog Ihe enormons mim of 317,800 to Tite Ontcano Tainuxe, on the ground tlat the necusity s Insuticlont,~Chtcage Trmes, If any insuranca company, or anybody elno, have any such ctaim as this ngainet Tue Crroaco TRIRUNE, thoy will please present thom at the connting room, during business hours, and obtaln their monsy. Dy #o doing they wlil oblige Lus TninuNe Company. S = % POLITIOAL NOTES, Somebody has proposed (o introducethe color- line In Africa, Tinx, Prennzrowt, Bustow, snd JEWELL aro known to boe opposed to third-torm principloa, The Albany Journalis perplexed and unable to decido whether Gov. TiLocw e Jago, Dog- Verry, or Falstaf. Bonator Banarant, of California, is straining overy norvo to nooure A ro-oloction, e le said to Liavo tho inost Pacilic Intentions, Mr. BourwELL Ia now willing to shale handa acroess tho Lloody chasm for a consideration, The 8pringfield Repubdlican says a0 ‘I Masnachusotts Legislature liag sgreed to adjourn aine die ncxt Friday, and (ts doclalon is said to bo most graufsing to the peopla, The New York Times thinks that Mr. Scnvrz {ain tho position of the Irishman who, whon climbing a ropo, lot go to Apit on his hands, ** Thie norvilo alliance of tho Domagratic party 1 Ulio with the Catholle Chureh " {e distrossing somo of tho topublican nowspapers a good deal, Cardinal MoCrosgey'a porformance in New York the othor day issaid tobo no inroad on Tepullican simplicity,” and & good sign for the Democrats, Gov. TiLorx, of Now York, intends to frame & genoral municipal charter which shall introduce o large sootion of the Dav of Judgment to the citizens of that Btate, Mr. Retrey, bolug * tha Contennial candidate for tho Drealdonsy,” expects to bo electod ouco in & hundred years ; and ho will bogin his carcer in tho twentioth contury. A sorious-minded Freochman oxplnina that PirnngroNt's oume in the vornacular fs PrTER Brmog, snd thera is no resson why ke should pretond to bo an aristocrat, Judge R, K. WiLrtaxs, formerly Chiof-Justice of the Rontucky Court of Appeals, Lina bosn takon before a jury dndor an inquest of louacy and sont to an inssne asylum, Ban Fraucisco politicians are snxious to have the Governor nominated from tho interios, so that thoy may gobblo tho roat of the tioket. It is spolls, not honor, thoy sre after. Indianapolls holds its municipal elociion to- morrow. Tho Democrats are making dosperato efforta to carry tho city, bolleving thatit s tho koy to tho political situation fn the Biato, Thaé extra sossion of the Louisiana Legisla- tare was a dead failure, and the Domocrate waro roaponsible for it. Bat the Picayune says it was callod meroly to ratify the adjustment, Bpeaker MoGuing, of the Now York Loglslature, has made sorjous encrlfices for the Capal Ring, and everypoidysaya hie ought to hava s reward. The least that can be done for him is a good fat ocontract. Tho Detroit Post batieves that Titr Trinuse Is altogather too indepondent. The trouble is, doubtless, that Tux TrinoNe rofused to print & siz-column obitasry of Mr. CuaNDLER when he lost his scat fn the Unitod States Henato. Iftho socret of Oant, Bonunz's independonce, courage, and wisdom is in anydegroe owing to the fact that ho is ineligiblo Lo sthe Prealdency, by all means Jet all our Benators be placed in the samo poaition. The suggoation comes from the S¢. Panl Dispatch. The Eastern papors will oblige Tax Tntnune ‘by understanding thut Pottor-Law Torren, of Wiaconsin, has nover been serlously mentioned for the Ropublican Gubsruatorisl nomination, e hss nover been asked, and he has never offored himsalf. Heis the Democratic candidate for the Ropuvlican nominstion, The Courler~Journal may mean to be compli- montary, bat the following senteuce has & doubt- ful sound: *Bhould he prolong his stay in Ken- tucky, the people evorywhers will receive him s plain Hexny WirsoN, a straoger and s wolcome guest, and not aa in his official character as Yico- Presidont,”” Why should the peoplo do any such absnrd thing ? Beouatorial fights are hard on newapapers, The ooo in Minnesota exhaustod the Pioneer and tho _Preas, 1o that thoy wero obligod to consolldate, and now it s eaid & similar fate awaits the Nows and the Senlinel of Milwaukea. Borkix las etood 8o woll by Brongy through the libel suils that ho hopes to secure & poaition on the Ohicago Times, P The Utica Observer boliovea Lt the campalgn of 1872 was a blesalug in disgulse, becanse ** it rojuvenatod the Demacratio party, snd placed it on the high rond to pormanent succoss,” It has nlivays heretolore boen a question whother tho Guerrer movement swallowed the Demacratio partyor the Domoorstic party swallowed tho Goeerey movoment. Anyhow, it is protcy clear that somebody waa sfck, Poor WeNDELL PurLrirs ia losing his reputa- tion a great deal fastor than ho made it. His violent larangues on finauco, trade, and mocl- ology more thau equal his moat aploudid ora- tions, Ilo seomsto Liava beon apeclally unfortu- oato io his late lettor on the Iloosas Tunnel, of which tho Now York Times spoaks as followe]: e alnays foarod that the big tuunel would have a disturbiug effect on tue intolleot of Dou- ton, Bomothing elsa besldes the Hoosso Moyn- taln was cracked when doylight wea leb in throngh the groat bore.” PERSONAL Can Dowe withstand the genoral eall ? Dr. Korees ls the » 014 Probabulties™ ef Russia, Cincinnatl is juatly prond of the musical mag- nates nho hizs contributed to the world. Maritoa HeroN has written a new plsy, under the herroneous impreasion that it will be plsyed. Even {diote hava imitatora. ** Blind Tou " has & littlo colored rival in Carroll County, Vir- ginia, Qen, Prawx Brasn haa hed two transfusions of blood without offoot. Isn'é this typical of nis party ? Aboyin England has boen finnd 034 6d for whistliog while the Rev. Mr, WanNkn was boy- ing moat. The Rumano Soclety of France gave Borrox 8 gold medal, and he probably wiil swim the other course next tima, Tho poor pstlent oyater las suffered from the ‘wintor just as much aa other people, but made 1o remarks about it, ‘The bais has been awallowed already, and half ho anobs aro clamoring tor more Cardinals to do their marrylog for them. Bingular colncldence—Cardiosl MoOvoaxy bas united s couple, sod Biry Epwasnps, the pugilint, has taken a wifs, Unless tho British Medical Journal Is mis- taken, 4 per cout of the population of Grest Britain dis a violent desth, Boor refuied su offer of $5,000 a week, for faur weoks, aithe Cslifornia theatre. He pre- ferred taking half tho recsipie. Yrra Oanms, the Iows orphan, who was tarred and festlered by & mob of “respoctable married Iadies," baa sued the gang for $0U,000. It loud oolors wore permlusible to sonvbody, the deaf muts society opposite Tum Tmisurs BualMdmg shoul be the frad ¢ avall iasselves of the privilego. Btranga to say, they dress ay they talk, quietly and with thelr fingors, # Thoreso,” ALxxANpRE Dusas’ latest nove!, issaid to be In his most immoral vein, K¢ doubtloss wrotes it to ratas money, then, * Aacx's " goopraphy in at faalt, Vonice, nof Naples, is the ** Bride of the Hon.” Thoy wa marrlod twalve centurios ago in a dry attio. Baiezy and MoGraony, of tho Danbury Nerry and Danbur{an respectively, aro so busy nows. dnya fighting ono another thoy bave not tima tg be funny, Eurnson's fun will be but hollow mookary, Jim O'NE1s bne gonio, and Gen, Pmir Bueninsy 18 going to bo marriod. The price of crape will advance, too, Aupunox's valaable library was burned al Blelbyvillo, Ky, and Boonw's great-grand. nephow backed out of a duel in Misaourk Al for tho daya gone by. ‘The Now Orloans Times rald AnDuEW Jor. BoN ugod money to securs his eloction, and Ax. pnew siues for libol. That unkind oot wus prompted by shoor malice. The phraso, *ombrace roligion,” ia said to havo originated mtl n certain Congregational proaclior in Brooklyn, whoee namohas boon meu. tioned onco or twice of late. * In Europs—not found,” was the offlcial in. doracmant of the summonses for A, B. Brack. WeLL and It, B, Inwin roturnad to tho' Districh Qrand Jury in the BrLy, K1xa perjury case. ' Fonnrs, 8arA, Nuasesy, and Henty will go to Indis with tho Prince of Wales, to writo Lis Jouenoy for tho London Netm, Telegraph, Times, aud Standard. Pity the comlic papors don'tsond a roprosontative. Tho expressman who advertired himself ta May-movers in Tne Teinusc yestorday: ¢ N, B.—Furniture loadod so 88 to show to tho Lost mdvantage,” was a phitosophor, and should b givon n foroign migaion, Prof. WiLpen, of Corncll Unlversity, hasa ‘baby whalo only 2 fnches Jong, and Lo prou'ly olaims that bo can sayof this baby what fow parents can say of thoirs, that ** there's no blab. ber in it."—DBrooklyn Argus. Varxasepa's threats to the dosertors in Cuba nnd the insurgonts might be mot with the time. honored tauot sbout lbecoming possessor of o hare provious to preparing Lim by culipary treat- ment for consumption at table. i Jonx Dniant thinks it absnrd for the United 8 ates to invite forelgn manufacturers to com- poto ot an oxhibibitton when n protective tariz provanted their compoting in Amerioan marl.ofs, and thero aro nctually soma traltors to their country who profess to see & modicum of ju ticn In the romark. The **Wahoo of tho Ogocchea™ is tho titls beatowed upon AamoN ALrcoma BmapLes, of Goorgla, Thin colebrated Wahoo fa n Iuwyer, and at prerout ho lies {n a Bavannah jail bocansa of perjury. When thoy lot him out Lo will comigrato to Brooklyn, whore such foibles arg ovorlooked.— Cincinnatl Commercial. Another mind-reader Lina como to the sut face fu Philadeiphin. IIis name is WiiTenouse, aud he shiows that this mind-roadlug is merely ' sorving the unconaclous muscalsr action o. 4 sub’ect. He hins proved this by exporimecits sy cont ] seively that the young man Brows Lins quit the b sinoss and bacomo w reporter on & Wauk. {n glon nowspaper. The many frienda of the late Oecoin G, Crarn will bo deoply pained to Josrn of bis death, v hich ocourred on tho 9th ult., at Ula, Col,, wheio ha want in sosrch of health, He was a voung man, smbitious and energotic fo the battle of life, and ona whosa gentlemnnly qualitioa shone through n genial, sunny disposition, endosring to him all his acquaintances, Capt. Reesery, an old New Bedford whaler, died rocently st Honoluly, where ha had made Lis home for many yosrs. Io wasa great fa vorita with the Royal familv, haviog boon sdopte ¢d aa a child by a sistor of Kaxenaseua IIE, in sccordance with thenative custony, on aocount of some kiad offices rondored by him; anda col- tage was eractod for him witlun the palacs (- closure, Where he diod. A formidable rival of Burr Hante and Jomt 11ay In looming up in Indirnapolis, whero a do- tective recently tostifled, aa follows, on (ho wite neeg-stand: ¢ Foarl chinoed mo to take this houss worlt; thia was not ss the Bhoonys. Jlo told me to chicoss it on tho Bhoony, ss ha hed given him away. I then saskod him what kick. up be ant tho Steeny Liad, a4 my mob had splll on me and left me without s finuefl.” = Tho square-tead propriator of the Barbourvil'a Hotel i a man who doean't hesitato to denounce {ngraticudo and dishonesty, and ho gays in n card in the Mountain Echo : *The year 1874 wai enld to boa very hard year, Tpe undorsiencd bought meat and broad, and, very unfort: rately for himsolf, kept & boarding-houss, Thero ara men owing me for what thay cat during 1674 to this day. If they don't pay ms w.thin threo wooka from this dato I stisll publish a lst of thels names sud amcunt dua for grub.” Tha following correspondoncs has passo]ba twoon the propristor of the Danbury News, Mr, Dowovay, snd the propriotor of the Danburiam, Mr, MoGesour: 0. E. A, McGracuy: Uuloss 1 biavo returned to mo, within two days, tho vol- ume of MeNamin’s Encyclopedio, taken by you from thia oftice, I will take such stops as will cither laad to its rocovery or unploasant ocnso- quencoes to yourselz, T, DoNovax.” *'To Tu- oruy Dovovan: Unless you rotraot, within one-halt hour, through the same medinm, yoor vilo calumny sgaingt me, I wil pubhsh you as a reckless and mslicious liar. O, E, A. Mc- Omaony.” 3faj. Raskry, the formor Btate Treasurer of Towa, who 1a now on trial for ombazzlensent, wwad & Union soldior. Ho was thres timos olextal Btate Troasurer. The funds ho I8 said to have stolon wero taken fiom the Agricultural Colloge and turncd into tho Btato Trossury, Ionce tho difileulty of tbe prosecution iu proving .a case against him. Three years sgo noc man in lowa stood fairer. *To-day,”" his counsol says, * he 1s » mau of the past, having neither wealth nor socinl stauding, Prematurely old, and powasste iug uefther momories of the past nor antiopa tions that can give him plessurs, bostauds ab the bar of juatice anklug only a fair trial UOTEL ABRIVALS, Grand_tac{fe—F, In Hugles, New York; T, chenmucher,5au Frauclsoo; John G, Bourky, U, 3 J. K. Graves, Dubuque ; 5. O, Wilson, Dayton; D, 8. YTiavin, Cleveland; ¥, W, Behnelder, Bt, Louts; 3.0, Kimball, Allantss D, M. Keat, Now'York; . Blckin= Tes- son, Bpriugfeld’ K. F. Marshall, B, Wileox, Oohi o, N, %3 O..W. Moats, 8t ¥aul....Palmer L= . G. 'Hawdon, Englandi George Cilimore, Puio= sylvanin; Lotls Feder, llochestor; Hobort 3. Wilcoz, ' New York . Doliga, Minu> sotat " Joseph O, Adenriedy U. B 4j Liel Pravk D, Baldwin, U, 8 A,; O, B, Stanhoye, England; 0, G, Welltaley, do Bpriiga; Gooigé ¥, Authony, Lesvenworth ; 8, 8, Parker, Loutavills; 1,8, Dowson, Yokohams; Frauois Curts, Bostoni Willism B, Taylor, Phtladulphia: H, Ackerinan, 8:1 Frauclaco Brank Murphy, Ouwabin; M, T, lonis, Eogland ; R H, Kicol, Niagurs § 15 u.ém‘?m. ‘Boston. <ses Ivemiont Hotite—Ls T, Milligan, Now York ; Lietty £7. lsnuden, Loudon, " Eoglend ; I B, lreylor Portland ;. Mariln Croes, Lochesteri O, ¥, A ington, Boston; George IL. man, Olavor WEET ', Deutord: Detrolt ; M, ¥, Bodti, Memphivy Danjol W, Lush, 'Tochveter ; A, Atwood, 8t Louisi E. Q. Btoverr, ~ew Haven....Sherman House—lobih Treadway, Bosion; D. ¥. Ladger, Jr,, Boston ; Frauk Hlate, Rocheater ; Jacob Waleh, Bosion; T, 8. Kirte Land, Moutaus ; W, Harris, Dagenport; Lapper, : ¢, B Tose, Erh . Lavason, New o G 1 pock, kookutk;, Ehosas OrNell, Paoe £int O, ¥, Gordon, Bochester §'B, 1L, Wardsy, Spring fad, MILWAUKEE, Momorinl Scrvices~Other Ttemse Speciat Duapaten to The Chicago Tribune. MiLwauxes, May 2.~Impressive memorial ., sorvicea wore Lield by tho Froe Gemelnde Boclety of Germau Libarals fo-day in honor of the ex- iled poes Hermogh, who recently died in France. Nusser, the Internationalist, delivered the me- morial address, Mesars, Booker and Frits were the other oratars. Dr. Jobuson, Health Hffcer, bas besn 2o~ olected, Horry Doakin has transterred (he leass of (he et i sy i o St wl Deakla ke Dilion oa s saab Noslhvesss s,