Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 27, 1875, Page 4

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A M.—Ball 3 LAFAYETTE CHAPTER, No. 8. —Htated Con! fanroe- vocation Monday evening, June 23, at7 o'clock, for busines and work on the M. M4. gree, Byorderof thei P. EN. TUCKEA, Sec. Sunday Morning, June 27, 1875. The Chicago Times, having bought some new type, cackles over the circumstance in a more ridiculous manner than a young hen after accomplishing the startling feat of pro- ducing her first egg. ———— "There is a small budget of South American news which covers a successful rebellion on a small scale in Mexico and a change of Ministry in Brazil. The lightning seems to have strack, instead of sent, the names tele graphed as those of the new Ministry. They are probably wholly wrong. Some residents of Chicago may perbsps be impressed ere long with the fact that a fraud- ‘alent election is not amere piece of humor. The Grand Jury yesterday brought in four indictments aguinst the Judges of Election in the Second, Ninth, and Twentieth Wards at the charter election. Now let ushave a little vigorous prosecution. iz The beauties of giving a mob practically sbsolute power are agsin illustrated. The Common Conneil is said to be about to create the affice of Prosecuting Attorney for the Police Courts. Of course this means more officeholders and taxes, and, at least, one more tax-eating bummer saddied on the city. ‘What briefiess barrister has to be “taken care of” now? ‘There is a good deal of figuring going on among the adherents and supporters of Mr. A. C. Heamia to run him for County Treas- urer this fall On the other hand, there is 6 large section of the Germans who propose to bring out Capt. Gzonce Scunzmes to run agsinst him, feeling confident that the Csp- tain can be elected by a majority of thou sands, 3 Secretary Bristow has given orders that the Chicago Committee of Architects shall-be allowed every facility for examining Muzi- ufn’s and Motuerr’s monument. The Com- mittee will go to work to-morrow, unless the ruins fall wholly to pieces first. Its report on the soundness of the foundation will re- ceive general credit here, whatever its recep- tion in Washington may be. The investiga- tion will last two weeks. In Connecticut, the towns are represented in the Legislature much as the States are in the United States Senate. An attempt to get xid of some of the more glaring inequali- ties of thia plan by making one House the representative of the people instead of the towns bas just bean voted down by a Damo- cratic Legislature. Such s wanton denial of justice to the people wes reserved for a party which profesces to especially believe in the People. The Common Council, in their action on the Appropriation ordinance, have, so far, not only confined their sppropriations to the yams and objects recommended by the Finance Committee, but have, in several in- stances, reduced them. -For this action the Council deserve foil thanks and credit. "Their votes on all these appropriations have shown that they understand the necessities snd embarrassments of the city, and have determined to appropriate no money not nec- essary to meet indispensable wants and to meet obligations crested by law. If they fall persevere to the end, and pass the ordi- nance thus pruned by economy, they will de- serve, and will receive, the commendations of the whole public. A few days ago three burglars were arrest- ed in this city, tried, and acquitted by a jury in the face of overwhelming evidence against them, Within twenty-four hours of their discharge the same three burglars were arrest- ed while in the very act of committing a burglary. The jury engaged in the trial of a burglar named Waar—or, as we probably should designate him, Wri Waar, Esq.— ‘bas disagreed, in the face also of overwhelm- ing evidence. Three of the msn who were on the first jory were alao on the second. In ‘view of those facts, it is pertinent to inguire whether the impaneling of juries and the hands of Mixx McDoxarp. If so, what for. on the Gaspee, a5 4 Gommodore of the Naval Forces of the Colony,” and instructed him to clear the bay of a British vessel then cruising in it and harassing American commerce. Tho “Naval Forces" consisted of one sloop. Wurrrre took this, sailed down upon the enemy, and, after a brisk engagement, cap- tured her. Rhode Island now claims, first, that the burning of the Gaspee was the naval Lexington ; second, that this engagement was the naval Bunker Hill; third, that “Little Rhody” at once organized a navy of her own ; and fourth, that it was her dele- gates tothe Continental Congress who brought about s Continental Navy. This sounds trae enongh ; butif any rash person sdmits its trath before the Centennial era is ended, he rans the risk of being overwhelmed by proof that New Jersey did this, and New York did that, and Georgis did the other thing,—all of which contradict Rhode Island’s claims. Every fact of the Revolution seems to have come tc pass first in each of half a dozen States. ‘The jury in the Beecuen case at this writ. ing (Saturday evening) havo not yet agrecd ‘uupon their verdict. They havo now been out since Thursday afternoon, and, cansequently, are now consuming their third day. Report has it that at first they stood four for convic- tion and eight againat it; but, after arguing the case for a day, they stood five fora ver- dict of guilty, with damages for the plaintiff, to seven against, who held that the guilt of the defendant hed not been sufficiently proven to satisfy the technic:l require- ments of the law as laid down in the Judge's charge. Before the case was finally sab- mitted to the jury, the plaintiff's ocunsel asked the Court to reopen the case long enough to let in the testimony of three newly- discovered witnesses, two of whom swear that in October, 1869, in the house of Tus oponz Trrox, while working there, they caught the defendant slagrante delictu~in edaltery. They swear to time, place, and cir-: cumstances ; but the Court refused toletin this new and startling proof, and submitted the case to the jury. The New York papers con- tain the affidavits of those witnesses, and some of them comment severely on the Court for its exclusion. The Brooklyn Argus says : ‘No such testimony was offered during the regular course of the trial It abould be sifted, If these statements aro now let stand they become sworn evi- dence, upon which a new suit might be instituted in caso of a disagreement by the jury; they become the damning accusers of Mr, Brrcuea, to follow him throngh life, to impair his usefulness, and to poison him by inches, They are worse than the WoopHULL charges. ‘Bia every interest is to have the case opensd end the testimony admitted, In this manner anly can the witnesses be impeached and the force of their ter ible socuaations be weakened, The New York frit una, aptrong advocate of Mr. BSEouxn, advises this course, and says that it will be a great mistake to rup- Press any evidence, ‘The Now York Herald takes the same view of the subject, SHERMAN’S MAECH TO THE SEA. ‘The studied and persistent attempt which is made by some journals, aided and abetted by certain military officers, and consequent upon the appearance of Gen. Smenwan’s “Memoirs,” to strip from that Mlustrious General the laurels he earned by his famous and decisive march from Atlanta to the sea, isnot only an act of flagrant injustice, but one that deserves rebuke. Cincinnati and Washington seem to be the-centres of this effort to despoil Gen. Suzmsan, for the ben- efit of Gen. Gaaxr, who desires nothing of the kind Gen. Gnas planned great cam. paigns, he fought great battles, and he won great victories, and Congress rewarded him with the command of the army, and the pao- ple have since rewarded him with the Presi- dency. He does not ask or expect more, Does not this latest attempt to despoil and belittle a brother officer of his richly-earned lourels savor of malicious envy upon the part of professed friends of Gen. Gzawr’s? Un- doubtedly the idea af the march to the ses- coast from Atlanta ocourred to Gen. Guant, and it is not st all unreasonable to suppose ‘ibsi it occarred also to President Lrxoony, Secretary Stuwtox, and Gen. Hauiscx, and ‘was discussed by them. But this is not the quostion at all. What people want to know now, and what history will decide in future, is, who, when the time was ripe for it, planned and made the march from Atlanta to the sea. ‘The record of those stirring days shows clearly enough that the credit belongs to Gen. Suenman and to no one else, When Gen. Sxeznman moved from Chattanooga south, he forced Gen. Jomssrox, one df the ablest of the Confederate Generals,—in many respects sblor than Gen. Lae himeelf,—before him, drove him out of his intrenchments and for- tifications, defeated him over and over again, and, althoagh Jeuving his base of supplies farther and farther away, snd continually forcing Jouarox nearer (is, s0 pounded and weakened him and jeopardized the Confed- erate cause thet Jomysron was relieved by Juve Davis, and the command of tho army wss given to Hoon, the latter hoving the reputstion of being on aggres- sive, fighting General The chasge did not affect Gen. Smepwan’s plans nor interrupt hia forward movement, The fighting General of the Confederates met with bloody defeats around the walls of Atlanta, He was driven out and forced up into the northwest with Suermam following him. Hoop supposed that Suenuan was going back into Tennessee, and commenced tearing up the railroads to Chattanooga; buat this was farthest from Gen. Szensun’sintentions. He saw that the time had come to break the shell of the Con- federncy, and show that it was hollow. “He obtained, permission from Gen. Gnant to make his march to the sea without waiting for ordsrs to do it. The President ond Gen. Garant may have been discussing it in their councils, but Gen. Smemun had finished dis- cussions, and was ready for action. His plans were all deeply sstured, snd when the permission came he ect them in motion. He detailed Gen. Tzomas to take care of Hoop, and detached sufficient of his forces to accomplish this end, ‘and then started upon his wonderfal 1,500- mile march. ' Victory led the way and defeat and ruin followed in his steps. The severest obstacles opposed to him by the Confederates melted awsy liks snow. No opposition was sufficient to interrupt the progress of the vio- torious ermy. His march through Georgian ‘was like the mower through the grass. Every- thing before him went down, city after city yielded to him without question, and every ‘village and town that witnessed the resistleas march of this army contributed subsistence to it, Savannah, with ite powerful defenses, ther use is thoro of tying burglars and | fell; Oclambis, the Ospital of South Carolins, thieves? before, the British schooner Gaspee had ben was burned. Still on strode the resistless Suzmuaw and his Western host. Would - June 15, 1775, the first rel naval battle | he march directly to Augusta or Charleston, tf the Revolution was fought, Three years | argued the Confederate Generals, and, while they were discussing plans of concentration, THE CHICAGO TRIBU®®: SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1875.-SIXTEEN PAGES more met Sueemay, and, after sustaining another defeat, soon thereafter surrendered ab the head of 37,000 men. Tho march of battles, assaults, tlank movements, and grand strategy was over. The remainder of the march to Washington was « peacefal parade. A year before he marched from Chattanooga with 100,000 Western men, and entered Washing- ton with 70,000 - victorious veterans who bad strode with him over 2,000 miles of Rebel territory, crossing moun- tains, marshes, rivers, swWalups, through floods and forests, under the blaze of a senfi- tropical sun, and in winter's storms on bot tomless roads, From Chattanooga 'to Raleigh he conquered the Confederacy as he want, by destroying their armies, capturing their cities, living on their resources, breaking up their railroads, burning their manufactories, and rendering the Rebels unable to prosecute or continue the war. He hurt them at every step, striking them terrible blows with the mailed-hand before which they wovkened and fell. No-othar General spread such ter- ror behind, before, and all around him, as SuEBun. It is too Jate now to strip Gen. SHERMAN of the glory of the great march which planned with such care and executed with such exactness in every detail. History will record that when the time came to make the attempt, Gen. Suenuax made it, and that it was crowned with success, This will be the verdict of the future, and it will but re-echo the popalar sentiment of to-day. Perheps the surest way for these busybodies who are seeking to belittle Gen. Sasnuan to saticfy themselves would be to ask Tennessee, Georgis, South Carolina, and North Carolina, who planned and carried out the march to the sea and’ to Raleigh. Ask Savannah, Augusta, Columbia, Charleston, and Raleigh who it was that pierced the heart of the Con- federacy. As well undertake to divest Na- poizow of his military lsurels. COMMENCEMENT-DAY. Vacation time has come. The little people have Inshed their books together and taken’ them home, and now they swarm off into the country to enjoy a rest from school-room du- ties, recruit their health in the pure air, and got into trim for study ogain in aufumn. The oldar scholars have hidden good-bye to sc’ 20l- days forever. ‘The “sweet gitl graduates” have fluttered their litthe moment of excite- ment and fame upon the stage in white and pink, have been smothered with flowers by their youthfal admirers, have read their cal- fow essays and sung their pretty songs, and enjoyed their first draught of the cup of fame, and been chronicled in the gazattes, and now they separate—this one to her ftirt- ing and coqueting, this one to her marry- ing and housekeeping and future diffi- culties with servant-girls and children, this one to her teaching or shop work, perhaps; some to lives of happiness, and some tolivesof wratchedness,—bat alllooking forward into a future whose pathways are paved with roses, and whose skies are flushed with gold and crimson. The young men in cap and gown have addressed their seniors with the wisest of platitudes, and enunciated es new truths to gray heads old-time facta worn threadbare long ago in their wrinkled experiences, and the gray heads bave sat and listened to profound developments in litera. ture, art, science, politics, theology, and statesmanship, with a quiet smile as they recalled the days when they also had downy cheeks and lusty longs, and stood upon the stage and explained the world to thir seniors, who had aqueazed it dry years before. They have spoken their piece, received their degrees, sung their last rollicking songs, planted their elms and ivies, and have passed the thresh- old of Alma Mater for the Inst time as stu- dents. They will now prepare themselves to fill the places of their elders upon the ros- trum, in the pulpit and the sick-room, and behind the officedesk. Some of them will be pioneers of progress; some of them sing- gerds, who will fall by the wayside, Some of them will go to Congress, and some of them to the State Prisons. Some of them will make a great name and success, and some will make a failure; but all set out with brave hearts and hopeful souls, after the man- ner of youth, It is an old, old story,—this story of Com. mencement-Day, with its white-muslined di- vinities and black-gowned heroes, all starting off i the grand race of life, with its flagsand banners and flourish of trumpets,—bnt it is 8 story which is ever fresh and new, and it would seem as if it had never been so fresh or so new a8 this year. The press hos been filled to overflowing with the details of Com- mencements in seminaries, colleges, and uni- varsities, and of the exhibitions of schools. Never before have they been reported more fally or carefally, and never have they bean more interesting. In Chicago, this has been specially true, The graduation ex- ercises of the High School on Friday Inst were attended by an inmenso audience in the largest hall of the city. Time was when the school-bnilding was large enough to. hold the crowd, ‘Then a small church sufficed. Last year McVicker’s Thes- tre had to be used, and this year MoCormick’s Hall, with its great seating capacity. The young ladies and gentlemen acquitted them- selves with great credit, and they made their debuts upon the stage of life with a dogree of success which deserved the flowers and ova- tions of applause which greeted them. In reading the report, however, one is struck with a singular discrepancy between the grad- ‘uations and the admissions. ‘The graduating class numbered some eighty members, but the list of admissions as published numbers ‘about 500. In the ordinary course of things this should be nearly the number of graduations at the end of their echool-days ; but the old rule will hold true, “Many ore ealléd but few are chosen.” The long list will melt away. Some will move from the city. Many will drop out into business, and some of the girls will get married. The num- ber will steadily diminich from various causes, until but 15 or 20 per cent will remain to graduate. The list, however, and the grading ey of our grammar schools, In all this there is great hope for tho future of the city. So long ss our schools maintain their standard and the list of scholars increases, and so long 2s the public throngs these graduations every year in increasing numbers, the prospect is an encouraging one. What is true of Chics. go is true of the whole country. Every. where the graduating exercises seam to have been unusually successful, and some of them were attended by in- teresting episodes, os at Vassar College, for instance, where 42 young ladies had qual- ified themselves to receive the somewhat anomalous degree of Bachelor of Art. and the surest sign of it lies in the increase of interest manifested in them, and the zeal and enthusiasm with which the great mass of the people rally to their defense, when threatened by their enemies. For this rea- son, every patriotic citizen should find cause for rejoicing over the unusual succets of Commencement-Day all over the country this year, It is Commencement-Day for those who sre entering upon school-life and tread the collegiate cloisters for the first time, and it is Commencement-Day also. for those who leave these cloisters behind them and begin real life. The latter will fight their battles with more of manlinees, ond honor, and chivalry by reason of their educational discipline and duties, and their successors will emulate their examples. We may smile at the pathos-of the “sweet girl” valedic- torian as she‘ bids ‘a touching adien to her companions, and the tears which moisten their Ince handkerchiefs, and we may shrug our shoulders at ‘the wise platitudes of the young collegs orators ; but they are none the less earnest, honest, and hopeful, and no one will read the story with: any less interest be- cuuse it is on old one. CHICAGG AB A PORT OF ENTEY. The decision of Attorney-General Prenes- PONT Dohéerging thé psyment of duties and filing claims for damages at interior ports of entry is one of great importance to the merchants of the West. Some two months ego, Mr. Coxsnt, Assistant Secretary of the ‘Treasury, decided that the duties on goods imported direct to Chicago and other interior ports of enty must be paid at the first port of delivery, aid that the ten doys allowed by ‘law in which 10 file claims for allowances on account of danages begin at the port of ar- rival and not ai the port of ultimate destina- tion. This was recognized immediately as the latesteffortof the New York importersand jobbers to brak up the system of direct importation atthe West, and it was exposed and denouncel in Tae Tarmons at the time, ‘The importers of the West were not slow to organize 8 raistance to this manifest in- justica, and they secured a reference of the question to fie Attorney-General, who has now decided shat Mr, Coxant’s construction -of the law wai wrong. ‘The decisio: of the Attorney-General is the only one tha could be made consistently with good sewe and common justice, To have sustainei Assistant-Secretary Conan in the position which he took would have been to nullify tle law. of Congress estab- lishing the uterior ports of entry. Had the limit of n days for damage-allowances ‘begun upon the arrival of the goods at New York, ‘he Chicago importer would have been shu out from the privilege alto~ gether, since here would not be sufficient time to transpat the goods to Chicago, get them ont of sbre, and make the necessary examination, The loss incident to this ex- clusion would disable the Chicago importer in competing vith the New York importer, and drive himback to the old system af buy- ing from the Tew York jubber, paying him ‘his commissims and profits, and selling at second-hand. ‘The fact ishat the New Yorl importers and jebbers hve discovered that a monopoly is easential tothe preservation of their busi- ness at anythig like its former dimensions. A system conisting mainly of extortion and corruption inpelled the Western trade to seek other hannels for the transaction of their “bsiness. One of the steps to this et was the procuring of 5 law from Ongress constituting the leading cities of the West ports of entry. Under this law, thedirect importation at Chicago had grown enormously, and the trade throughout be vast telritory tributary to this city ia spplied at fairer prices than can be obtained 1 New York. The late docision of the Atteney-General will enable our direct imporbs to increase their business in the future atthe same rapid: rate it has advanced sincithe passage of the law. TH POLICE BOARD, ‘The dominat faction in the City Council is very anxiouto abolish the Board of Police and Fire ‘Commissioners, and to place these two branches f the public service under the charge, respedvely, of a City Marshal and a Fire Marshalwhom they will, in effect, ap- point. An orinance to this effect was intro- ducéd by AléHimpsxrs on Friday evening, and referred ta committee of the Common Couneil. .On this svject inquiries were officially addressed tothe Law Department of the city asking wither, in the opinion of that body, the 6mmon Council, under the bogus chartechad authority to abolish the Board of Pcce and Fire Commissioners, Judge Dicky in snswer thereto, made an official statuent that the Comnton Coun- cil had no ich sathority, adding thereto, that his assist, Mr. Anan, and City Attor- ney Jascmsoiagreed with him. It seems, however, tha'as was done in the contempt case, anticipeng an adverse decision by the Law Departent, the Mayor and Council took the adve of several attorneys ontside of the Law Jpartment, and all of them de- clered thatthe Common Council had the euthority tinbolish the Board of Police and Fire Comissioners under the ballot-bor stuffed chatr. Judge Dicney states that Messrs. Tux, Root, and Srozzs, think the Council mayabolish the Board of Commis- sionere, an(that Mr. Morse thinks it was abolished ip facto by the adoption of the bogus chartof 1872. Judge Dicxer argues that the bogrharter of 1872 continues in force all previousivs not. inconsistent with that old charter 2 4 there is nothing in the bogus charter incoistent with the law creating tho Board of Hice and Fire Commissioners; that the bog charter designates five officers repaved out of the genera} tax, they will ba would, with the horserailroad ranning cars ‘every two or three minutes (as the Company would ran them in that case), take a position equal to, if not in advance of, State street, ‘The very best class of stares and shops would be located there, and it would be altogether the pleasantest street in the city for the trans- action of retail business. Within two or three years there would be aon uninterrupted line of stores all the Twelfth, and property which will not now rent for enough to pay insurance and taxes would then bring in a fair interest on the in- yestment. It is extremely short-sighted for the Wabash avenue property-owners to defer the repaving of the street any longer. The contract should be made and the pavement begun within the next two or three weekx. more than exercises of common prudence to postpone a revolution in the City Government, especially in the matter of creating now of- fleas. ‘While believing that the judgment of Judge Dioxey is the correct interpretation of the Jaw as it stands, we do not wish to be under- stood as thinking the abolition of the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners would be a sexions calamity. We think that whatever occasion or necessity for that Board may have prevailed when it was created no longer ex- ists, It is neither useful nor ornamental, It is cumbersome; and when itdoes exercise any of the useful powers it possesses it is done in a way that accomplishes no good. There is no discipline enforced. itis not respected by its subordinates, and consequently not respected by the public. Moreover, the “Board” system bas become as inefficient as the system it sacceeded. What is needed isa responsible head, clothed with mneces- sory powers to- perform the duties of his office promptly. A single off- cevat the head cf the Police, and another at the head of the Fire Department, each with full power in the sefection of his subor- divates, and‘each responsible for the entire management of his department, and subject to summary removal for cause, would be a vast improvement upon the Board system as now administered. While we think the abolition of the Board would be a wise meas- ure, and one strongly in the interest of reform, that abolition must be accomplished legally. The charter of 1872 does not abolish the Boards, does not provide any substitute for them, and confers no suthority on the City Government to abolish them, and, in fact, continues them. Our objection is, not to tho taking off, bnt to the illegal manner in which it is proposed to be done. A result of all this is that a Police Commissioner will have to be elected this fall. WABASH AVENUE SHOULD RE PAVED. ‘Wabash avenue in its present condition isa disgrace to the city. There is a chance forthe property-owners to make it one of the most desirable and valuable thoroughfares in Chica- go, instead of one of the mostdisagreeableand unprofitable. There is no longer any sense or reason in quarreling with the horse-rail- road people. The tracks are laid and the Company has done about all it intends or can be required todo. Had the Common Coun- cil consulted the interests of the people in the first instance, and granted the right of way to the Company offering the highest consideration therefor, it is likely that the paving of the entire street would have been undertaken by those enjoying the franchise. But this was not done, and ther is no use in losing time and throwing away an opportuni- ty in order to moan over a betrayal of pub- lic trust which cannot now bs halpad. There is no question but the horse-railroad will help the street if the property-owners will do something for themselves, The avenue is in splendid condition as far south as Congress street, and for thi distance the horse-railroad tracks have not disturbed it. From Twelfth street to Twenty-second the tracks have rath- er improved the street than otherwise, as it was nearly impassable before, and as the tracks now furuish a bed for wagons and trucks to run upon. Between Congress and ‘Twelfth, however, the elevation of the track above the surface of the old worn blocks seemed to be inevitable, since it was necessa- yy to furnish a gredual decline from the new grade at Congress down to the old. But the Company is filling ap between the tracks and at the sides, tapering off the elevation down to the curbs. Nothing more can be done an- til the street is paved. ‘The property-owners on Wabash avenue should need no urging to proceed at once with the repaving of the avenuo between Congress and Twenty-second. It is pri- marily in their own interest; the public benefit is only incidental thereto. Every dolar invested in a new pavement on Wabash avenue at this time will bring back at least twenty in the increased valuation of the prop- exty, the leasing of property which cannot be rented at all at present, and the increase in renta of buildings now occupied. ‘It is proba- ble that the property-owners can contract for the repaving of the street this summer at the rate of $2. foot. The curbing is all done; there will be no filling except between Con- gress and ‘Trelfth, and the railrosd company hhas already done 4 large part of this; and there is nothing todo but the laying of the blocks. Whatever it may cost it is entirely safe to say that it can be done for less now than ever before, and as little as ever agein in the future. The pavement has lasted for nine years as longas the ordinary block pave- ments can be expected to last unless laid of white oak. During that time it has been kept in repair at the expanse of the general public. If the property-owners of Wabash avenue are waiting in the hope that the avenue will be very much disappointed. This cannot and should not be done. Anew block pavement on Wabash avenue way south to of the pupils in it, speak well for the efficien-" who are top elected, and authorizes the Council to eate any others. it may think proper, andb abolish any ‘of those i may create, Jad Droxsy is unable to find any | £m the start been one of the hest organized authority ins Common Council to repeal a | 824 most successfal pablic charities of the statate of thBtate of Dlincis, and, finding no | ¥ord. It has never needed any “ vindica- such anthorl, he decides that the Board of | tion,” but it is worth while to call public Police and ‘ire Commissioners is beyond attention for & moment to the complete refutation of the Communist alanders against iC it, which is given in the report of the Com- ‘We incling tho opinion that in this mat- | Mittee of the Common Council eppeinted to : examine its affaira. The report is given bo- Law Depertint are correct,even on the ag. | 10. Itis to be hoped that it wil sat at rest sumption thie bogus chartor of 1872 is in | the Preposteroua stories that -have been circulated by the Communists and their fel the reach ofthe abolitionists of the Common Council. | ter Judge Drex snd his associates of the force in thisly. But, in addition, there is the possibilitfhat the Courts will decido that that charter h never been adopted, and is not the law olhe city. Wo suggest, there- fore, that the!syor and Oommon Council go hurry forthe gation of new offices. Ambi- tious petiota ting to serve their country To the Mayor and Aldermen of the Chsoage, a ? of investigating the faire of the Chicsgo Bolisf and slowly in this'atter, There is no immediate | Ald Soctety respectfully report that taey have partially ‘Performed that duty. We called at the headquarters i Docs Hol Bt ent Lasalle aineet, and hag should wait a fy weeks longer. If the May- | H.W. Kato, Spyrbrrap i bane al or and Comzc Connell will instruct their | General Superintendent, who receired us courteously, The Relief and Aid Society of this city has WE: ‘Your Special Oommittee appointed for the purpose Treasurer; and C, G, Tavepr.t, the and cheerfully placed the books and youchers of the with the general management and rales by which the work isadministered. We also exsiined several casea of complaints and denials on the part of y<rsons charged with receiving help, and found receipts in every case, and no evidence of partiality or prejudice onaccount of nationelity or religion. We examined the books and vouchers se far as practicable, but, there being something like 600,000 vouchers, filling several large packing-trunka, and s large number of books, covering the history of the Society for all the yeara since the fire, and embracing the expenditure of $5,000,000 of money, that it would be impossible for any committee to make an absolutely thorough and careful examination of esch item in detail in twelve monthe, The examinstion, though partial, bas con- ‘vinced your Committee that the whole business has been faithfully and wisely administered. B, Quiax, Troatas C. CLARKE, ‘T. W. Srour, AR, Stow Specis! Commition, ———— THE PRAYER-GAUGE IN ENGLAND. Dr. Tsompsox and Prof. Tyxpann are probably quite as much surprised as any ono else to have their proposal to test the power of prayer carried into effect by one of the most devont sects in England. This sect is the “Peculiar People,” who apparently differ from other Christians only in insisting upon ‘a literal interpretation of the whole Bible, instead of only a, part of it. The members Epistle of St. James. unfortunately for their children, the following passage: ‘Is any sick among you, let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the nameof the Lord; and,the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up.” This precept they have religiously observed, When a child falls sick, instead of sending for a physician, the elders of the “Peculiar People” ore summoned. They pray over the little sufferer, and smear him with oj] ‘‘in the name of the Lord.” Some- times he dies, but at other times he gets well. ‘Then ‘“ths-prayer of feith” has been an- swered, as ‘per. promise, and the fanatics re- joice, But generally he dies, Then his parents say: “It is the will of God,” and bury him, It is said that twelve children have been suffered to dio in this way within ashort time, all of whom would have been saved by a little medical attendance. In some cases, broken limbs were treated only with prayer and oil. It is needless to say that mortification set in and soon killed the victims. These peculiar practices of the “ Peculiar People” have attracted the atten- tion of the London magistracy. The sect has been warned to stop murdering its chil- dren from sense of duty, but it bas kept on., When the twelfth child was sacrificed to the Moloch of fanaticiam, the matter was brought before a Grand Jury, which was asked ‘to indict the offending superstitious parent. But the jury was instructed by the presiding Judge that the parent’s neglect to resort to sure methods of saving his child’s life was not an indictable offense, provided it was due to conscientious rligious belief. That it was so dae could not be doubted. The Grand Jury ignored the presentment, and the “Peculiar People” can hereafter go on neglecting their babies at pleasure. ° They are now about to start a hospital, open to any one, where the only medicines used will be prayer and ail, and whence all doc- tors will be excluded. As the oil derives all its supposed efficacy from being put on by an elder and in “the name of the Lord,” it may fairly be considered as a miraculous remedy, on a par with the prayer. The new hospital, therefore, will give Prof. ‘Trxpats a chance to collect the statistics proposed in Sir Hexay Taourson’s erstwhile famous article. On this side of the water ‘we might, perhaps, put a legal and a speedy stop to the practice of religiously slaughtering children, But England bas an act of Parlis- ment which establishes the Bible as the standard of revealed religion, and how could the Peculiar People be legally punished for clinging closely to the letter of this standard thus set up by the law of the land? This is what comes of uniting Church and State. A SCANDALOUS £1 . For several months the Chicago Inter-Ocean has been lending its columns to the pro- motion of a scandalous and shameless fraud in the way of publishing stories af the finding of gold in large quantities in the Black Hills. In a recent issue it gives a half-column of staring head-lines, some of which read : ‘The slack Hibs Geological Exploring Expedition haa iscovered gold, an Infer-O.e2n reporter, with the command, tells how all former reports are confirmed, For seven miles along French Creek the doubting scientists got “color” in every pan. Col, Dopos, commanding the escort, adds his testimony as to the richness of the diggings, The men making from $5 to $5 per day, No trouble from the Indiana, ‘The fraud of these dispatches ought to be evident on their face. Under date of Camp Harney, on French Creek, June 16, the correspondent ¥, “ites : Gold in large quantities and af good quality has been discovered in Custer’s Gulch an French Oreck, and slong this stream for a distance of upward af seven miles toward the source. Oriana, Neb,, Juns 22.—Thef allowing has just been received.trom Col B, I, Dopas, in command of the eacort to Prof. Jaxwer: Buick Hus Exrrozrya Exrrprriox, Hamxer’s Prax, Juno i/.—Gold las been found in paying quan- tities ou French Creek, . Costizn’s report {9 confirmed fu every particular, ‘The command is well and in fine condition. “Private edvicea recelved here aay the com- mand found 10) mineré at-work in Ouster’s Gulch, taking out gold et the rateof $5 to $25 per pan. The evidences are strong that there are meny mote miners in that country, ‘The god found ts coarse and acaly, ‘but easily panned. Quartz mines are abundant, but no one hss prospected them. No Indians were seen by the command. They are north of the pesk, The ‘Weather ie extremely bot to-day, the thermometer reaching 97 In the shade, The expedition exploring the Black Hills is under Prof. W. P. Janyzy, and Dopas is commander of the military escort. On June 17, Prof. Jaynes thus officially repurted to the Indian Bureau: Case on Faesch Crzex, wean Hanwey’s Prax, Jane 17, 1875.—Hon. "E, P, Ymith: have discovered gold in stall quantitiss on the north bend of Castle Creek, in terraces or bars of quartz gravel. I arrived here yestardsy, About fifteen miners have located = amp on the creek above hero, and have commenced working. Gold ix found from Castle Creek south- wardly to French Creek, at this point, and the depos Sts are almost wholly in Dakota, ‘The rogion has not been fally explored, but the yield of gold thus far has been quite amall, and reports of the richness of the gravel bara are greatly exaggerated. On Freach Creek the depostts of gravel are very unfavorably situated. ‘The water supply is small and failing, and the grade is too little to admit of tallings baing carried off by the stream, ‘Tbe prospect at present is not wuch as to warrant extended explorations in mining, W. P. Jayxex, E, MG, Expedition. ‘Prof. Jaxsxr reports that gold in small quantities hss heen found from Castle Creek to French Creek. This newspaper reports : “Gold in. large quantities and of good quality bas been discovered in Custera Gulch, on French Greok.” Jammer says : “The yield of gold thus far has been guite small, and reports of ths richness of the gravel bars ar greatly exaggerated.” “Donor says: ‘“ Private advices received hare aay the command have found 100 miners at work, taking out gold at the rate of $5 to $25 per pan.” Janxzy saya: ‘On French Creck the of this organization have discovered in the : stream. _ Prospect at present is not such as to watrant extended axplorations in min- ing.” ci au these dispatche purport to have been Written at the same place, on the same date, and by members of the same party. But ths Tnter-Ocean suppresses the official dispatch, of Prof, Janney, and gives the wild stories of the other irresponsible persons, ‘These stories, which are mainly pure fab. ricstions, are unfortunately dispatched by the Associated Press agent to other parts of the country, thus giving a wider circulation and more damaging effect to the frands, The design is to swindle poople into organizing expeditions to go to these Black Hilla) The morality of this proceeding is no better than that of the professional swindlers who invite and urge persons to enter the bunko honses, and make themselves rich, or the morals of the men who seduce persons into buying lottery Licketa, giving their money to support 8 frandulent pretense that thareb: be enriched. = Oey ‘These continued and repeated publicati calculated, if not intended, to deitenen men into investing thair scanty means, and giving their time to organizations to go to the Black Hills in search of gold, are dishonest and ecandalous, and should receive the repro. bation of the public. A GO.AHEAD AMERICAN IN JAPAN. ‘When the Japanese Embassy came to thig country, five or six yeors ago, its members inquired for some one who was competent to serve Japan as a Commissioner of Agricul. tare, not exactly for the whole Empire, but for the large island of Yezzo, which is about the size of Indians or Ireland, lies due north of the maininnd, and was then inhebited only dy fishermen, whose villages formed a fringe of settlement around the coast. A tradition prevailed that the interior of tho island was an inhospiteble desert. Nobody tried to climb the high volcanic mountains which formed a ring about the interior, or even to as- cend one of the rivers that poured down from the unknown interior region. The almond. eyed Orientals were perfectly passive. Theiz rxemotest ancestors thousands of years ago had believed Yezzo to be cold and uninhabits ble, and they religiously clung to the ances- tral faith. One of the flood of new ideas thal poured in upon Japan between 1865 and 1870 was a notion that Yezzo’s 32,600 square miles might perhaps bave been misrepresent. ed, and that the crowding population of the rest of the Empire might be advantegeoudy transferred to this vast solitude, provided the reports of its desolation should prove upon investigation not to be true, The scientific resources of the Empire, however, were insufficient to properly conduct this in- yestigation. So it came to pass that the Em. bassy asked the President at Washington for the man who could best explore, survey, re- claim, colonize, and cultivate Yezzo. The reply to the request came in the shape of Gen. Honacz Carnon, then United States Commissioner of Agriculture, an ex-General, ex-planter of Maryland, and a farmer of Diinois. Gen. Caprox wass man eminent ly fitted for the task. He was in a measure detailed by our Government to go to Japan. His services there during the past four years have been highly prized by the Japanese Government, and he retires from his post, now that his work has been completed. with the thanks of the Emperor and of the Presi. dent of the Agricultoral Board of the Em \ pire. ‘The thanks have been well earned. Ameri. can ingenuity and energy have practically added 32,000 square miles, much of it of grest fertility, to Japan. When Gen Carnon sailed for his new home, he carried out with him a sort of Noan’s ark of ani- mals, a museum of tools and implements, thousands of young fruit-trees, and s large assortment of seeds. His first task wasto set out his trees and put his cattle, horses, sheep, goata, etc., to pasture near the Capital, Yeddo, Then he carefully explored and sur- veyed the Island of Yezzo. He discovered that the mountain-ring inclosed » great ad fertile valley; that rich and vast doposits of cosl and iron lay within easy reach of navi- gable waters; and that the climate was suf- ficiently warm, pleasant, and healthy. With abundant labor and means at his com mand, Gen. Carzox procesded to clear por- tions of the interior from the heavy forest that covered it. He had good roads com stracted. He transplanted about 40,000 of hia young trees from his nursery near Yeddo. He brought over a number of animals. He planted crops. Trees, animals, and cropshave all thriven. The yield of corn, wheat, and oats to the acre is as heavy as it haa ever adapted to clover and our other American grasses. Yezzo seems to Gen Carnox to strongly resemble Ohio in climate and soil, with the addition of Pennsylvania mountains. The work of reclaiming the island bas now bean practically commenced. What remains is for the Japanese au. thorities to carry ont the plans Gen. Carson has originated and outlined. - The General himself comes back to his native country to enjoy well-arned rest. Pesides bringing the great island of Yezzo out of obscurity and into civilization, he laid the foundation for a complete survey of thewhole Empire, and started manufectories which are now making mechanics’ tools and agr- cultural implements of excellent make and durability, after American pal terns. When he first went to Japan, be could not get even a gimlet there. Taken all in all, there could scarcely be » more striking instance of what one man of ability and em ergy can do than that afforded by the career of Gen. Carzon in far Cathay The Grand Jury in the Criminal Court have mnde their final report, and, among other true bills, they find one sgainst Cxsntzs A. Warersns and H. M. Ruxp for “ violation of dnty as Judges of Election” (usually called ballot-box stuffing), m the Second Ward; one against Wows O'Barex and Hever Cit LiaHan, for the 2«me offense, in the Twenti- eth Ward; and one against Kowaxn Pzxz, B. V. Kunrepr, and Connzuros Manoxzr, for the same offense, in the Ninth Ward. This is all very well so far as it goes, but in com nection with this there are two other facts which need some investigation. How is it that the Dballot-box stuffers of the Beventh and Eighth Wards, where 9 thousand frandnlent votes. were stuffed into each box, have escaped indictment? And more ecpacially how happens it that the villains in the First Ward, where the cheating exceeded 1,200 votes, escaped? It will be re- membered that on the night before the eleo- tion two ballot-boxes were stolen from the County Clerk’s office,—one for the First been in Ilinois. The soil seems especially . burned in Narragansett Bay, ond a month be. | he had struck in between the two, and hope- fors the Margaretta had: been captured in | lessly divided them, and Charleston was Mschiss Bay, bat these are both private | evacuated, and all its fortresses, guns, and entarprises. On the day we have named, the | war material captured. Still on went the vic- Bhods Istana Assembly formally commis- | torious army, and did not halt until it hed Avasoan Warrria, who led the sttask | reached Raleigh, neat which Joumsros once offices to exidite matters on the part of the cy, a judgont by the Supreme Court can © bad in tise this fall. to have it deter. mifd finally whether the city is or ia not gottned by thesharter of 1872, Until that } {Prion qistlon is thus stertnined, 1: woold be no deposita of gravel are very unfavorably sit- uated.” Dover saya: “The gold found is coarse and scaly,/but easily panned.” and one for the Second: Ward,—and thet these stolen boxes were stuffed with 1,525 votes in the Second Ward and 1,762 votes in Prot Jaxwzx sdds: “The water eupply is | the First, and.that on election day these small aod failing, and the grade is too little | stolen boxea thus staffed were substituted, Aitiatention | to ndmatt ot tailings being oactisd off by the | with thele 8,900 ilegal voles for ie ~ fustitution st our disposal, with such clarical aseist— ance as we might reqaire, We examined the method of doing business, the blank farms used, and the gen~ ‘eral system of Investigating and determining cluims of prlicants, also the checks and belances tn the hand- funds, and Gnd sa sdmirable and perfect spp tata, "We Genira to extries car enlicy canara astneyeaneinwtennnaenscec re eet ane tte AACA COG A NRT et Though we may seem to be going to the bad in some respects, and corruption and genera) rascality msy appear to be on the increase, the correction will eventually coms through the madium of cur schools sod universities,