Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 30, 1875, Page 4

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NRMY OF MUSIC—Hnatated atrast, batwasn Mad- 1a9n e Moo, Engigemont of Rohart Ma\Wade. *C}iip Van Wiokia," Altornvoa and svening. RY'S THEATRE-Nandolnh steart, herwasn m‘:gc-"n‘;';m-um Tnpagoment nf Mra, Oalos' Engllsh Opera-Uompany, ' Madame Angot's umm.‘: fson_ atreer, batween nt_of the Now -Vork Big Honanza.' M'VIOK RS THEATI! Brebura and, State. i th Avenne Thoatre Comp "8OCIETY MEETINGS, Tho memhers of Orlental grea, ato heroby ordorad 73 Monroe-st., faily o Wedria-da ,tho Sith inatds at 1o 1 2y 10 Attend the funaral obiseqiias of our la é-‘.’n’x'fmhhtfl L liro, oragh Gallvgan, 31 D Lo HATL: -~ Carn 1o Rou asares e GURNEY, Gu ORIRNTAT, CONRISTORY, Conai P, it, 8., 12d 'at theie touderyous, “BUSINESS NOTICES. FOR TWELVE YRARS THE SUPERIORITY OF ** Laird’s Bloom of, Youth " to all athor Leanilfiors han beon adnu..udy and alace tho declalon of tuo loard of Health it has byon racognizad as the only harmless cos- metlc, Bold by all drugglats. The Chiagy Tribune. ‘Wednesday Morning, June 30, 1878, Fenomanp L, ex-Emporor of Austria, died yesterdny nt Prague, aged 82 years, This imbecile monarch in 1848 abdicated in favor of his neplow, Fnaxcis Josees, the present Emperor. Tho second letter from Tur TRIDUNE'S correspondont with tho Black Hills scientific expedition will be found in this fssuo. Just what Prof. Jensey had discovored in his search for gold np to June 15 is told by n member of the party whoso statomonts can Lo relied upo: The Louisville Courier~Journal gracciully, magnanimonsly, and nobly warng Gen. Buersan that he had better take care how he talks about tho South, because e ** will hore- nfter be dependent upon votes of members ‘who wero once Confederate soldiers for the handsome allowance and pay which sustain the dignity of his distinguished position." This chiyalric threat neods no commont, It is now assorted in tho Washington dis. patches that the whisky suita are likely to como to naught owing to mismanagement on the part of persons intrusted with the prose. cution. No namea are mentioned, but it would hardly bo supposed that, under such circumstances, the officers who have, through incapncity or neglect, failed to recover the taxes due tho Government would ba retained for further service in o llne of businesa for which their inaptnoss is so glaringly ap- parent, An jtem in the fortnightly budget of news from China and Japan embodies a statoment which is of intorest to foreign mission so- oleties. It is to tho effect that in Japan the work of giving the Gospel to the heathen has been mainly monopolized by tho Roman and Greek Churchos, theso bodies having a total of 23,000 converta ns the result of the labors of forty-one missionories, while Bsevonty ‘Protestant missionaries can bonst of but 200 converts. Tho Rev. Wrminas AnNen Ropents, a ‘Welsh clergyman, Las been getting himself into trouble, not of the Beromen sort, how- ever. Ho has only been drunk. Thero wos no womnn in the case, although several car. drivers testified that they had taken him homs whon he was s drunk as a fool. The upshot of the wholo affair wna that ha lost ‘his vicarage. When it is considered, how- ever, that the poor man was viear of Llan. faimathatarneithnf and Llanddyfiran, most people will oxcuso him for his occasional 1npses from gobriety. To bo a vicar of such unpronounceable places and to bo required to pronounce them ore sufllcient to make any man thirsty, The groat international rifle matoh, which was shot yestordsy nt Dublin, resulted in o splendid triumph not alone of Ameriean skill, but of American weapons as well, It wns the second competitive trial between the ploked riflemen of Iroland and America, both countries being tho most famons in the world for ekill in target-shooting. Ircland has now ‘been benten twice, and tho honors of supremne gy falrly belong to the United States, Tho rusult affords conclusive proof of the supo- riority of American rifles, the wmatch having been won at tho longest distances, At 800 yaxda the Irish team scored 838 ngainst 837 for the Americans, but when it camo to rangos of 000 and 1,000 yards, the Smane and RexaxaToN breech-loaders used by ourside carried tho total scora to o ma- jority of 88 points, or 967 to 920, The great capacity of the weapons of tho Amerioans will be more easily understood when it is ro. membered that 500 yards aro*nearly half n mile, 900 yards sboat four-sovenths, and 1,000 yards about three-fifths of a mile, or equal to thu distance from Madison strect bridge to the lako, 'The best rifla that En. gland and Ireland could produce proved to ba inferio’ Lo the arms of Awmerican mann- facture, Incidental to the eventful tost of haman kil saud mechanical merit thora was disple;ud by the gentlomen of both England and ¥eland o degroo of warm good will and aepty hospitality which will leave us thelr 4.btors, while it makes more memorable the rAsit of the American tesm and tholr groat 7 ahievoment, T ——— 1 'The Chicagopreduce marketawero stronger resterdoy, with an active shipping move- ment in wheat. Meas pork was in good demand and 20@250 per brl higher, closing ot §19.60 cash, and $10,70@19.75 for Au., gust. Tard was quiet and firm, closing at 916,40 per 100 Ibe cash, and 13,60 for Au. gust. Moats were in fair demand and a shade firmer, at 8jc for shoulders, 11}@114c for short ribs, and 11jo for short clears, High- winea were quiet and steady st §1.16 por gallon. Lake freights wero active nud steady ‘st 2J@2jc for wheat to Buffalo, Flour wes quiet and firm, Whest was in urgent shipping request, and advanced 430, closing at §1.02} cash, and $1.02§ for July, Corn was wtive and 1jo higher, closing at 690 cash of mler July, Oas weze rather quist snd 1 Loapzn ensior, closing at 51jo oash, and 40jo for July. Rye was quiet and firm at 90c, Barley wns quiet and flvmer at 81.02 for Septomber. On Saturdny evening lnst thero was in storo in this city 2,678,636 bu wheat, 2,404,018 bu corn, 457,751 bu oats, 2,701 bu rye, and 10,058 bu barley, Hogs wero more activo and stronger. Bales principally at R0.05@7.10. Cnttle were dull and ensy. Sheep wero firmer. Thers is more perjury in the Berouen caso, Loanen and Pnrcr, the two witnesses who made afildavit to the discovery of a scene of criminality in the parlor at Tirzon’s house, ave under arrest upon n charge of perjury, and both have confessed that the afMidavits wero false, It will excite mo surprise that more perjury should at this Inte day be ndded to a caso which has beon chiefly notablo for its many flat contradictions under oath. and DPnice, it now appoars, aworo to a le ecither for money or a promise or expectation of money; Lut the inquiry i3 suggested, What influences were bronglit to bear to induce them to confoss their porjury? Probably conaciencohad little or nothing to do with it. Fear, or some mo- tive equally powerful, must have induced the confession. As it is, Loapen's explanation does not wholly remove the effoct of his afiidavit, but leaves room for comment upon the peculiar style of devotiounl exercises affected by Mrs. Trutoy and her pastor, No one will believe that Mr. Monnis was the menns of making Loapkr color up his ofiidavit so s to sot forth actual crim. inality; if the wretch swore falsely at all, lie would not be likely to hesitato at full detnils. Of courso tho arrest of the two last perjurors is expected to have an effect npon the jury, who are doubtless indebted to Brother Suearsax for the full particulars. If the plan succeeds and n verdict is given for Mr, BeccuEn, the result will be due to the two confessions of perjury obtained in tho nick of time; but it will be necessary to work up several more confessions before the defendant can count upon & general acqui- escence in tho verdict. THR RECOVERY FROM THE PANIO. Over twenty-two months ago came tho first failures, which in n fow days resulted in that general susponsion in all parts of the coun- try which bas passed into history as the panic of 1873, Previous to that time there hnd been going on o wild and extravagant system of speculations, Railronds were building in all parts of tho country, without the employ- ment of capital. Companies wers organized which issued bonds, and bonds wers sold at any prico that could be got for them. The country was flooded with railroad bonds, Iron-makers and car-builders wera lard at work, receiving in return the bonds of railronds and the notes of construction companies. In time these manufacturers issued thelr mnotes to mining companioes ; *‘busineas waa prosper- ous”; there wns no money, but everybody's notos were in circulation. These notes were discounted at tho banks, and bonds and stocks were hypotheecated as scourity, The speculntion extended itsolf into other branch. cs. Real estate, under the influence of * cheap money,” was bounding. Pa- por towns wero actually rank in their growth ; notes and bonda bought large proporties, and mortgages covered the immense nren of ‘' deferrod payments,” Lumbor-mills, and carpetanills, and paper- mills, and various othor mills wrere etartod; the now establishments struggling with the old ones as to which would produce tho most manufactured goods. The ‘“capital” in all theso things were bonds, and notes, and stocks, and bank credits, which were good enough so long 03 nobody questioned their solidity, but wholly unavailable in times of payment, Of course thera wns a limit to this, and when tho credit was exhansted there 'was an explosion. All that was unroal, ficti- tious, and mero wind, vanished, leaving the substantial and real behind. Evor sinco September, 1878, thoro has beon a sottloment going onof the outstanding in. debtodness, There hos been a general strik- ingof balances, All debts contructed on bogus securities have been of course sponged out. The banks and’ bankers, who had invested their own and other poople's money in apeculative notes, secured by speculative bonds, have ceased to do business, and have distributed their assots among their creditors, Tho National Banks of tho United States at tho timo of the panic held $950,000,000 of discounted paper ; other banls in the United Statos held possibly $700,000,000 more, The majority of this paper went to protest, Ooutside of thia thore wns many hun. dreds of millions ‘of dollars of dobts sccured, or supposcd to be ssourcd, by mortgages. Tho banks themselves owed their depositors over o thousand millions of dollars, Paymont of all this indebtodness waoa for a timo suspended. A large portion of it was blotted out from tho beginning, and the country hns over since beon engeged in sotttling up theso balancos. Thiv has been done lurgaly by tho offset of claims. Thus one mortgage for roal estoto has been s signed to the debtor in another mortgage, who has redeemed his own property by poas- ing the first ono on to his croditar, who in turn has exchanged it for other incumbered land. There being no purchasors for real cstate, debtors and creditors under mortgage deeds have gone on adjusting, aod exchang. ing, and settling differonces until a large amount of land Las been released from mort~ gego and tho lens patisfled and discharged. In the same way banka have been sottling with thelr debtors, Gradually but regularly the volume of unpaid paper has boen reduced undor extenslons and partlal poyments, and by settlementa at various rates on the dollar. 8o havo the wholesalo houses been settling turn have wound up and settled wit their dobtors. In overy cogo the voloue of in- debtedness Lios been reduced, T mushroom companios that had eprung {0 existence and wera doing business npop 10 other capital than their credit, of cowse went down to rise nomore, The compsnics that, in the excito. ment of speculation, had manufactured stocks of memhun'diga Iar boyond any demaond, have been gradusly selling off their surplus stdcke and poying their debts, The jron and coal men Lave In liko manner reduced their out. lays, Lave collected all they could, and have paid off their own debts and contracted no new liabilitics. The result of all this has been that, now in 1875, the amount of indebtedness of all kinds, especially in the shape of mercantile oLl manufacturing paper, is lower than it §ias ‘scen for many years. There has been & VIBOToes retrenchment of expenditures; there Lins beou a largs reduction of production, and consequent nou-cmployment of labor; but tis {6 largely dus to the pecullar charaster of our currency and the stringent prohibie tions of the tarif, which mit our marketato our own terzliory, Dutin the great itew of with thelr customors tho retailers, W¥o in’ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY JUNE 30, 187b. e e e e e freedom from debt the conntry was naver so fortunate. The sonson following the panic has been n soason of settlement, of payment, of redemption, and of re.cstablishinent upon a substantial Lasis, ‘We mny bo doing less businesa than in 1873, buying less, selling less; building fower railronds ; investing less money in the wilder- nosa; raising less cocoanuta and pineapples in hot-liouses ; digging fowor loles through mountains in search of imnginary silver- mines; have no constrnetion companies, and no swindling stocks, flanked by illimitable bonds issued by companios without a dollar of capital ; but tha husiness wo are doing is a real busincss, n paying business, a business in which renl commodities ere exchanged for uquivalents in value, The epeculative ole- ment of trade has been eliminated; money is abundant and interest low. Capital exists in nlmost unlimited amount seeking invest- ments that are substantial, Thero aro millions for legitimate business, and not a cent for speenlation; nnd this con- dition we insist ia na better one, nnd indicative of o greater and more permanent prosperity, national and individual, than the rotten, insubstantinl, false, and dishonest condition of seeming prosperity that existed before the panio in Soptember, 1873, The twenty-two months that have elapsed since Jay Cooke hung out his flag of distress Liave boen o period of distress and anxiety, and of loss and perhaps financial ruin, to in- dividuals entangled in the toils of expansion and speenlation ; but to the country they have been a season of racovery and convalesconce from the wild dobauch of waste and riotous speculation; and, as recovery becomes more permanent, so s tho general business and prosperity of the conntry improving and growing stronger under a healthful regime of strict responsibility and credit represented by substance, — THE NEW POLICE REGIME, The abolition of the Police Board, and the entiro irresponsible Bonrd mystem, was the alloged purpose of adopting the charter of 1872 ; but after the charter was mssumed to be adopted tho Law Departmont of the city gave its opinion that the Council Lad no su- thority to abolish the Boards. This opinion, howaever, did not suit the present purposes of the Mayor and Common Council, so the lattor body proceeded Monday evening to disregard it. An ordinnuce was passed providing for wiping out the Bonrd of Police aud Fire Com- missioners, and placing the control of the Police Dopartment under a City Marshal, and that of the Firo Department under a Fire Marshal, both to be appointed by the Mayor, with the conourrenco of the Council, for two years, While the concentrating of the responsibility in the Polico and Firo Departments is much to be desired in a genoral way, tho action of the Council at this time only contributes to the inextricable com. plications of the present City Governmont, 1t is dong, in the first place, in opposition to the advice of the Law Department, and whon tho action is contested, s it will be, a new et of lawyers will have to bo employed. In tho noxt place, it is wholly void and illegal if the Supreme Court shall hold, as wo believe it will, that the chartor of 1872 was never adopted. If, in tho meantime, the City Marshal and.Fire Marshal are appointed and proceed to tho discharge of their duties ns dofined in tho rocent ordinance, all their ncts may subsoquently be declared illegal, and the Polico nnd Fire Dopartments will have been got into such confusion as to engngo courts and lnwyers for years in the attempt to straighton matters, But thero is also a serious objection to the ordinance which the Council hina passed, oven if it had a right to passit. An amendment was adopted which will have the effoct of do- foating tho very purpose of the chango, viz. ; the concentration of responaibility. Having abolished one Board, the Council immediate- ly croated another, consisting of the Mayor, City Marehal, and Superintendont (the latter corresponding to tho prescnt Deputy-Super- intendent), who aro to try all officnses in the Department, and a majority of whose votes is necessary to the conviction of a policeman upon any chargo brought sgainst him, The Mayor will have to pnss several houra every day in trying potty charges against mem- bers of the force, and the one-man responsibility s loat altogether. The Maoyor and Superintondent can combine at any timo to defoat tho plans of the City Mar. shall, and 80 on. . When thero {8 complaint of abuses, as in tho continued failura to progecuto tho gamblers, bunko and confidenco men, thieves, pawnbrokers, **fonces,” otc., tho QCity Marshal can shield himeelf behind this new Bonrd, ns tho Superintendent of TPolice haa beon shielding himself behind the old Bonrd, The only reliet offored is that the Mayor has the power of removal, unmis- takobly given him in the chartor of 1872, and tho public and the pross may properly hold him responsible for any abuses under the new systom, The purposo of the new ordinance wastwo- fold, viz, 1 (1) To got rid of Manx Suenipay, becauso o refused to enter into the corrupt compact for carrving the charter of 1872 by fraud; and (2) to put Jaxz Reme into tho office of Chief Marshal, the more thoroughly to have political control of the city, Itis not unlikely that both purposes will be do- feated, Manx SuxnIoaN fa an cbatinate man and o desperate fighter; ho will not give np until he is forced to do so by the courts, Nor does it appear how Jax= Remx can law- fully be appolnted City Marshal, or serve in that capacity, for Beo. 77, Art, VL, of the charter of 1872, under which the Councit claim to bo acting, readss No person shiall 08 eligible to any office who I8 not & qualified sbctor of the city or village, and who shall 2ot bave reslded theretn at least one year next proced- 1ap 21 election or appolotment, nor shall sny person. 00 oligible to any oftice who is a defaulier to the cor- poration, % Jaxe Remx 18 not and haa not been a resi- dent of the city for soveral years; he lves in Lako View, There was an effort to exclude him from the office of Buperintendont of Police under the old charter on account of his non-residence; but the provision of the old charter was 80 vague, simply making qualified voters in the city also qualified to hold offico, that a point was strained and Remu retained. But the provision of the charter of 1872, which we have cited above, {s o explicit that we do not sce how the Mayor and Council can disregard it, unless they have decided to run the oity without {be réstraint of any charter or any law what- over. Itlooks now s though a very pretty mess had been mado of the whole matter, both s regerds the purposes of the City.Hall crowd and the interosts of the public, ———— 13 The Chicago organ of the pap-absorbors gots itaelf into trouble by venturing the stats. ment that Tux Cmoico Trmunz **did not even print the protest of the Chicago import. ors " (againat the ruling of the Tréasury De partment on the subject of damage allowances 9 lr;hdau importars) | that, “worse atilly.} rofnacd, whon speoially requested to doso, to |, print such protest.” It also says that it did not expose and denonnce the ruling of the Dopartmont, Tho facts are that the protest wasa printed in the local columns, and that tho ruling of the Dopartmoent was subjected to the soverest criticism in tho issuo of May 14, 'The sympnthies of Tnx Tninune, ns well a8 ita perceptions of the rights of the mattor, wero with tho importers of Chicago from the start ; but it did not deem it necessary to follow tho examplo of ils cut- tlefish’contemporary, and throw n flood of muddy ink over the subject. 'I'me TRIBUNE was content to leave this interprotation of n statuto to the proper legal ndvisers of the Becretary of the Treasury. The event shows that its confldonco was properly placed. GREENBACKS AND DOLLARS, A correspondant of a grecnback.grasshop- per sheet in this eity writes what he ealls n “defenso " of greenbacks, of which the fol- lowin is o specimen : Our greenback currency in not * rag-money,” nor Anything to bo nahamed of, nor anything to be got rid of ina lurry, Every dollaror dime of it is good for 118 face, good for what it saya it 18 ; the beat curroncy 10 do buriness with wo or the world over saw, and re- ilecmable for ita faco voliie ms fast aa we need fl—in fact a dollar is worth s dollar in gold as its ereation, worth 1t now, and will bo worth it as long s tho United States andure a8 & virtuous and patriotio nstlon, It wonld be hard to find ten lines packed with more falschoods than the abova. ** Every dollaror dime of it is good forits face, good for what it says it is.” 'Chatis falso, It is good for what n New York broker will pay forit. Nothing more, nothing lesa, “The best eurrency to do business with wo or the world ever saw.,” That nlso is false. 1t is not, by long odds, as good as the Ger- mnn, British, French,: or Canadian curron- cy. ** Worth a dollar as long ag the United States endures aa n virtuous and patriotic na. tion.” Thon the United States has coased to bo n virtuous and patriotic nation, as it nover has and does not now redoem a green- back. How long has tho correspondent of tho greenback-grasshopper sheet got to live before he learns that the only redeemers of greenbacks sre the brokers, and that they give just as little ns possible for them—one prico to-day and snother to-morrow ? Iow long has ho got to live beforo he finds out that a green- back js not & par dollar, but a deprecinted and fluctunting note, the maker of which will not redeem it? This correspondent talks very glibly of dollars, and declares that greenback dollnrs aro worth dollars, that a dollar is worth a dollar in gold nt its crention, whatover that means, without seeming to have any iden what a dollar is. A dollar is coin, equivalent to ono-tenth of an eagle, weighing 23.2 grains of pure gold and 871 graios of pure silvor. That's what o dollar moans. It means so many graing of gold or gilyor, The greenback means no intrinsic value, It is an oquivalent of noth- ing. It i8 only & promise to pay dollars, or 23,2 gramaof gold. But who will give the gold for the greenback? 'The maker? The maker will give nothing. The broker will give gold for it, but he will not give 23.2 grains of gold for n greenback-dol- lar promise. Ho gives varying amounts, the percontage differing according to the fluctu. ating values of the dopreciated shin- plaster, If this correspondent wonts to know the valuo of a real dollar ns compared with tho value of the greenback or false dolar, let him take a ten-dollar greenback in one hand nnd a ten-dollar engle in the other and go into n stora or n manufactory, into the largest wholesale house in this «city or the smollest rotail shop, and sce which will purchase the most goods. He will find that his gold eaglo will purchase him as much more in value as the difference betweon the value of tho eagle and the price the broker will pay for the greenback, This is o practical test which might convince tho writor that his greenback is not a par dollar, If aftor this test he still persists in calling his greonback o dollar, then lot him sco if the moker of his greenback is virtuous and patriotic enough to give him tho valueof a dollar for it. 'We fanoy it will not take him long to discover that the stract-broker is the only man who will redecm it at any price, and that its valuo is just what ho will give for it, shaving it as he would any other depreciated note; and that it the broker should refuse to redoem it, ho might try till doomsday to get any valuo at all for the plo- tured piece of paper in his pocket. That's what a greenback ia. A dollar is 28,2 grains of pure gold. SHALL THERE BE A CITY ELECTION? The crowd at tho City-Hall are carrying df- fairs with a high hand, Thelr programme is comprohensive. Tho abolition of the Polica and Firo Board was the first step. The np- pointment of Mr, Jare Renst as City Mar- shal will probably bo the next, And, in case ha cannot hold the office, then Capt. Hiozey is to got it. It ia not unlikely that the ro- moval of Commissioner Troyrson, of tho Board of Publio Works, will come next, and it i expectad that this removal will crowd out Messrs, Pmxprvinie and Wann, which will give threo more places to fill. Then, it s rumored, Judge Dicxzy, Corporation Counsel, and Mr, Apaxs, his assistant, will be asked to give way. Those changoes ares gort of house-cleaning, whoreby the Mayor and Common Council propose to surround themselves with officials to hold over tho entire City Gavernment boyond the torm for which it was clected. Weo do not beliave that all the city officlnls are in favor of this course (Ar, Janresow, the City Attorney, ia unquostionably opposed to it), but the Mayor, tha Oity Clerk, and a major- ity of tho Aldormen undoubtedly are; and thoy do not intend to call an election this fall. It was for the purpose of holding over boyona the term for which they wore olected that theso peoplo conspired to earry the char- ter of 1872, aud for no other purpose.: They will, therefore, without any question, refuse to call a city election on the Tuosdsy after tho first Monday in November, as provided in the old charter, 4 A city elaction should be held on the day specified in the old charter all the same, There will be & county election on that day, and the ballota for oity officers may be deposited in the game box and printed on the same ticket as the ballots for county -officers, It is proper, therefqre, that the law-abiding and respecta. ble classes should organize to that end, and be propared to clect & naw et of city officers, aa provided by the old charter, viz.; the Mayor, City Attorney, City Treasurer, City Collector, Clerk of the Police Court, and one Alderman In each ward. A fallure to do eo will be to contlnue the present incumbents from six months to two yoars beyond the term for which they were elected, in case the Bupreme Court shiall deoids that the charter of 1872 was not legally adopted. 1 a désialon la procured from the Supreme Court on the validity of the charter elaction beforo November, the matter will ‘then bo finally disposed of, and there must be on olection or not nccording aa the old charter in sustained or sot aside. But n declsion on this question mny not be renched beforo Novomber, and, in caso it shall not be, but comos Inter and sustaing the old charter, there will bo thon 1o means of ealling n specinl olection, and Mayor Covuvix, the Aldermen, and the rest will hold, under the charter, until their successors slinll bo eleeted in November, 1877. Unless the people care to risk this danger they must propare to clect new eity officers next November, and it {8 none too early that this nnttor should bo understood. Thero is another consideration which is al- niost na imperative, To allow November to pass without voting for city officers would be an ncquiescence on the part of the people in the results of the fraudulent vote of April 23, and it might be construed in the courts 03 an aceeptance of thoso resulis,—a decision for which thero aro nmple precedents. One of them was the sustaining of Gov. YaTesat the titno ke prorogued the Legislnture, when the Courtheld thnt the Legislature hadlegalized the act Ly acknowledging his power and lJis- porsing to their homes, It is necessary, then, to voto for city ofiicers next November, if no decision on the charter is received before that time, in order to make the necessary protest ngninst the frauds nud llegality of the alleged adoption of tho charter of 1872, That the pcople have the right to hold an clection for city officers, in easo the Council neglects or refuses to call an eleetion, is obvi- ous. To say that they have not would be to admit that n set of officers in power could perpotuato themselves in office by passing over, from time to time, the statutory requirements for calling an olection. The respectable peoplo may organ- izo and procced with their voting in precisely the same mmuner that they would proceed in case an clection were regularly called ; aud the persons receiving the majority of votes for the respective offices will bo entitled thereto in coso the Su- preme Court shall decide that the charter of 1872 was not legally ndopted, and bo in & po- sition to demand their surrender immediately upon such decision, This deliborate attempt on the part of the Mayor and other aity officials to hold their places, whether the new charter was ndopted or not, beyond the term for which the people elected them, most bo defoated if the votersof Chicago wish to pre- serve any respect for thomselves or for the right of suffrage. RO DISCOVERY AFTER ALL, The recent *‘discovery” by Mr. Cnooxes, that light can produce motion whon soting on a pith ball in o vacuum, is a very interest- ing one, and has been widely published. It is well that the right of MMr, O, to the honor is thus firmly established, as otherwise there might have boen somo dispute in favor of an- other savant. To show what a narrow eacaps hns been made, we have copled the following from Dr. Diox's ** Practical Astronomer,” pub. lished in 1845 Light, though extremely minute, {a supposedto have » cortalu degroe of force or momentum, 1o order to prove this, the late ingeniaus Mr, Mizor®LL contrived tha following oxperiment : Hoconatructed 1n the form of & common weathercock, of plate of coppor, about an inch square, and attachod to ano of the fnest harpsichord swires, about ten inches long, sud nicely balanced st tho other end of the wire by agrain of vory small shot, The instrument had slso fized to it in the middlo, at Tight angles to the longth of thowire,and in & horizontal direction, s amall bit of & very slouder sowing noodls, about half an foch long, which was made maguetical, In this state tho whole instrument might walgh about ton gralns, The vane was in the mannor of tho meedls in the marinwr's compars, 80 that {t could turn with the areatest esse ; and to prevent ia bolng afeoted by tho vibrat lons of the air it was {nclosed ina glass case or box, The raya of the sun wero thon thrown upon the broad part of {ho vane or copper plate, from a conesvo mirror of about two feet {n diameler, which, passing through the front glasa of the box, were collected into the fo- cus of the mirror upon the coppor plate, In conse- quence of this the plate beaan to move with a slow mo- tion of about an fuch {n & second of time, till it had moved through & spaoo of about two nches and s half, when it struck against the back of the box, Tho mir vor being removed the {nstrumont returncd fo ita foriner aituation, and the rays of the sun Lelng sgain thrown upon it, it again began to move, aud struck agalont thie Lack of tho box a8 before, This waa re- poated threo or four times, with the samo success, Tho author then enters upon an ingenious calculation to show that the sun throws off about 2 grains of mattor daily from each squaro foot of hiz surface, or 670 pounds in 8,000 yoars, giving o diminution of diamoter to the extent of only 20 feet within historio times, Thot reasoning is, however, based upon the corpuscular theory of light, which is not now accepted by astronomers; aund the deduction is therofore of no valuo, MARRIED PITE OF THEMSELVES. ‘The decigion of the Indianapolis Criminal Court in the froe-love prosecution cnse of tho State 02, J, R. Buewy and SvsaN D. Gruoenr, which was printed in Tne TRIouNE of yester. doy, i8 & remarkablo illustration of a knife that cuts both wnys, 1t appears that BueLy and the presumably fair Giupenr are frec. lovers, and, discovering that thay had afini. tiea for ench other, took out o license, and in the presenco of cortain witnesses solemnized a ceremony of marriage, and took each other for man and wife, without any nonsense of orange flowers and wodding gifts, or the su. porfluous gervices of an offlciating clorgyman, After the coremony, Buern and Gmoent, who was still Grusear, commenced living to. gother, The affalr, howevor, created a soan. dal among their neighbors, who had baen united for bottor or for worso atter tho fashion common among ofvilized beings, and the scondal grew st last to such di. monsfons that it became a nuisance, of which the proscouting sttorney was forced to take cognizance. They were accordingly brought to trial upon the charge of fornication, and, much to thelr delight and surprise, the Court declded that, ss both of them pelleved tho marriage to bo legal, it waa legal, 'Tha Court said: ** In regard to the effoct of the absence of ceremonies and forms upon the validity of marriage, it either of the parties to the mar. riage regards it as a union ay husband and wile, it should not be either void or voidabla because tho requirements of the statute in regard to liconse .or solemnization have not been complied with,” 8o far as it went, this was good enough for the free-lovers, and they were disposod to regard tha Indianapolia Judge a8 = second Danmy come to judgment. DBut this was only one side of the knife, Thero was another edge even more keen and cutting, and which cut the wrong way. When Buzty and the feir Quuoznr came together and solomnized their nuptials, It was not '* for keeps,” Thoy were not two soula with but a single heart, or two hearta that beat asone, Thelr cooing was not that of the ‘turtle-doves, They had no ides of establishing a contraot which man aupported’ could not put asunder, or taking any risk of being tied together until * death do us part,” Earthly posssssions were not to be endowed. They did not even promise to love, honor, or obey, It was a partnership engsgement: ou purdy business pricaiples, aud they sought to give forco to it by putting into the articles of partnership tho olause, **so long as tho union of love and lifo shall 1ast.” In other words, they were to litch teams so long ns thoy could pull to- gother. Whon ono tired of tho othor, ho or sho waa at liborty to quit, Upon this point, howevor, the Court was inexorable, and dash. od their hopes toihe ground. It did not think the worda were very significant, because ““tho law gottles the naturs and duration of the contract." Thorofore, sald the Court, “nny stipulation the partics may mnke in more idlo words and mawkish sentiment.” Having tested the odge of tho kuifo, the Court proceeded to cut with it, after the fol- lowing fashion : 1 conclude that defendants contracted & valld mar- risge, such & contract ss can only b disolved Ly doath or a corpetent court; that their agreoment to diavolve tho contract by their own consent in caso thelr respeciive love-natures fail to harmonize s In faw vold and fn morals viciouas that if the partles should act under thin stipulation for the termination of the marrfage contract, and thereafter onter Into » similar marriage-contrret and relationsbip with other partien, they would Lo guilty of bigamy, and that good morala and sound political ctlifcs, bs well as the atatuto law, require that they shall be held firmly to the mar- riage-contract {hey have sasumed, and 10 all the duties and responaibilities the law attacties thoreto, and, therefore, that.the parties ara not guilty s charged in th. Indictment, Tho decision i8a thunderbolt among the free-lovors of Indiana, which has knocked the vory ground out from under their feet, Buzry, and the fair Grunent, with their eyes wide open, have watked into the very trap they wero sceking to escape, and it has sprung upon them, They are mnrried as firmly as if all the clorgymen in Indiana had solemnized the nuptials, and as thoy were married with- out the inducoments which usually character- ize marringo, and must inevitably tiro of each other boforo long, their future will bring its own punishment, No sentence which the Court could impose would have had half the terror for. Burin and Gitmerr as the an. nouncement that they are legally married, and that only death or n competent court can divorce them. The prosecution has ample reason to bo satisfied. . THE NEW MOTOR P Itis not safoto conclude with the Seien- tific American and the vast body of incredu.- lous unscientific Americans that thero is nothing in Kzsry's new motor—but frand. Ho was the most indifferont of smatterers who, when a young enthusinst named Monsx went lecturing through the couniry to very indifforent audiences about his new motor, electricity, could not prove that the telegraph was in the first place impious and in the soc. ond impossible, It may be—we do not say that it is so—tbat Keeny has found some- thing worth looking after, o is about to apply his fnvention, the Eastern paperssay, to propelling a train betweon Camden and Jor- sey City. Hissacret has not yot been nu- thoritatively made known, but it is said to be the expansive power of carbonioncid gns. At 82 dogrees Fahrenheit earbonic acid isliquid un- der a pressuro of 80 atmosphores, It can bo solidified by being placod under greater pres- #ure in a freozing mixture, From this solid proceods a vapor with the most amazing ex- punsive propertica, This subject has been investigated by a correspondent of the Sa- vannah News, who givos tho following tabla : At B dogrees Fabrenheit the pressure in pounds per squaro inch 1 872, At 10 degresa Sahrenhest the prewsure in pounds par aquare {nch a 403, At 20 tegrees Fahrenhelt the preasure in pounds per square inch is 460, At 30 dearers Fahrenhelt the pressare {n pounds per aquars inch fs 584, At 40 degrees Fahrenhait the presaure in pounds per square fnch in 87, At 43 degrees Fabrenhelt the preasurs in pounds per square inch is 1,080, The solidification of earbonio acid gas was first achieved by Timvosren, in Paris, The strength of tho gas may be judged from the fact that a cast-iron apparatus of enormous strength burst during onoof his exporiments, kLilling an ottondant, The bursting of soda. water fountains, which sometimes happen, is an instanco of the wonderful power of this gas, The mystorious casualty in Bos- ton a fow woexs ago, in which a large tene. meont building, the first floor of which waa occupied by & drug-stors, was blown to atoms with great loss of life, leaving no trace of the source of mischiet, was boyond doubt an {lustration of what Kzery's motor can do if loft to itsolf, Tho rescrvoir of carbonic acid gas exploded. Here is o power for be. youd that of steam. Ia it certain that nothing can bs dome to make it manageable? The chomistries say that the tenslon given off by the vapor from the solidified gas is higher than that from any other known substance, They differ, appnrently, with tho eorrespond. ent of the Bavannah News quoted above, in that they say that tho tonsion of the vaporis developed by lowering instead of raising the temperature, o8 usual with other gnses, Hero jatho powerboyond a doubt; has Kezry harnessod it? Wo catch aresomblance in the doscription of his machine to tho apparatus used by Turronrer. A fino hair tube ploys a prominent part in the Kexr.y machine. Tar- ronen discovered that, if ho allowed the liquid gas to cacapo through asmall tube {nto o'brass box, an ovaporation followed 8o pow. erful that it solidifled the restof the gos, Thia solid Is tho seat of tho expansive power that the gas displays, Curbonio soid gas is vory cheap ; it can ba made out of marblo snd vinegar j it can easily be liquefied ; and liquefied, will fraoze itself ; frozog, it oan bo mado to produce a vapor * strongorthan that from any other known substance,” If Mr Kerry hos not found out how to domesticate this creature, some other inventor will be likely to do it before long, England has doubled her exporls within.twenty years, but alie has also greatly incressed 'he number of Ler paupers and the number and the misery ot Lue poor,—CAicago Frotection ergan, ‘This is ono of tha peouliar connndrums of a peculiar class of persons, lHow a mau who & doubling the amount of his surplus earn. ings can be getting nearer to punperisin needs an explanation. How a country which in twenty years has incressed throe-fold her surplus productions, employing twice or three timea as many laborers, and distributing among them three times theamount of wages that she did bofore, Lias thereby increased tho number of paupers, or the misery of the poor, {8 & problem which can only be answered by those who consider that the holder of two paper dollars worth 50 cents each has twice as much money as the man who Las one dollar worth 100 cents, Ths latter we suppose is a pauper compared with the former. . The Cinciunstl Enquirer proved too much (o Ita argument for currenocy-luflation whon 16 said thera were 90,000 able-bodied citizens in Chi- cago out of employment." The Detroit Post shows, "b; ple caloulation, that, on the En- quirer's basis, Olicago must ‘have a poputation ©0f 1,350,000, thua: Able-bodied citizeus out of employmant, $0,000; entite able-bodied popula~ tion, st least tbree timea the number of oitisens out of smploymens, or 270,000; whole popule- Uon, five tlmes (ke able-bodied populetion, or 1850,000. This 1s » veluable sdmisalon form , no insbip sa Oi;lelnn-u nowspapor to make. 1¢ will doubtless put 8t. Loufa to sham el et POLIFIOAL NOTES. The Damocratio candidate for Covernor in Maino fe opposod to the Y'robibitory Liquor law, ‘Tho Antl-Monopolist patty in Minnesota shows an nnbroken front einco Mr. Igaatius Donuelly hna tiad hie shirts mado to open in the back. An advocate of acophalous Governmont has taken tho fleld in Cincinnati,—a half-yoar after hl:dprudocuuor in Clilcago was laid out atift and cold, & Tho Momphis Avalanche wonld rather make the volumo of trado oqual to the wanis of tae currency than the volume of cucrency equal to thio wanta of trade. Thurman's political obituary {a now In order, o {a dorder than & whole tog of door-naite, and thero ia no hopo of resurrection for him.—8t Jouia Globe-Demacrat, Tho Milwaukes Sentinel retracta tho atatemen whioh some timo ago appesrad in ita columas, thes Benator Howe waa proparing for war on the Hon, E. W, Keyos. Panco and good-will provail be~ twoon theso gonttemen. Parson Drownlow knows the Ropublioan party 1s right bocauso the Democrata hiave gradually adopted its platform. Tuhe Domocratio party of 1876 {8 not tho samo as that of 1855, whilo the Tepublioan party is comparatively unchanged. Thero ta bitter faoling 10 tho eities and large towns of Connectlout ngatnst tho State House of Roprosentatives, which recently rojocted a reso- fution providing for a readjustment of repre= aontation {n tho Legislature as bolweon town and country. Tho Probibitioniste at Byracuss, . Y., Inst week rejactod a resplution which declared that it waa *‘equally the duty and interest of both ssxes to work for rum's overthrow.” 8o the Cold~ ‘Wator party, whon it awecps tho country, will oot pormit women to vote! It geomn bardlv possible, but is naverthaloss truo, that Mr. Allen, tho candidate for Governor on this platform, ia an old * bard-monoy” man, andthat * Govoral " Cary is an old prohibltionist, besides being nndor charges of frandulent deak ing in tha enlo of & mie.—New York Nation. Sam Cary, Democratiocandidato for Liontonsnte Govornor of Olilo, onco sald ina publia spocch that the Domocrats had no righta which loyal mea wero bound lo respect, except the rizht to be bauged, Qo, Bamuel, and be hangod ; you were never born to be Lioutenant-Governor of Ohio. Thurman, when he ran for Governer, recoived 240,000 votes and was beaten, Allen receivod 214,000 votoa and was clected. This in the way the Domocrats have gained in Ohlo. Allen, with bis rag-money appondage and his disposition to dodge, {8 not #o string now &8 he was in 1878, — Cincinnati Gazetle, The Cailfornis Independent Convention proealy misropresentod the canse of reform. It stiflod a resolution which doclared that *'noman ought to be romoved fiom otfice for opinion's sake,” and that “*the politicat dogma ‘to the victors belong the spoila’ ls demoralizing sod pornicious,” A The rumor that Mr, Blaine has dacided to con tost Senator Morrill's goat, instead of aspiring to the Presidency, creates great alarm in the peaceful Valley of the Kennebunk, The avere age oftica-holder knows not a divided atlogiance, and who can tell whether Dialne or Morrill would win in such & war of extermination ? William Allon is indignant at & report in the New Orleans Picayune that ho proffered Gen. Grant 50,000 troops, if nocessary, to put down the White Lesguo rebollion, But with all hia i~ digoation he quibbles and evades the lssue, ranking hls dofanee refor to the organization of tho Legialature, whilo the accusation 1elates to the White Losgue uprielog monthe previous. ERuowlug Gov. Allen's roputation for sagssity snd patriotism, we do not doubt.that he offercd tho troapa when they were not neoded—and i8 aow ashamed of bewng 80 Lionest & man, - FERSONAL, Reverdy Johnson haa practiced law for aixty yoars. The Hon, Len A, Harris, ex-Mayor' of Cine cinnati, {s at the Bravoort. Mme. Bres, s Pariglan lady doctor, has bsen appointed Physlcian of the Harem at Constane tinople, J. L. Hsrdman, s loathor-dealor of Montreal, bas pusponded. All hard men ought to be wuse pended. . Once moro. Anna Dickinson in not golog to play. Bla will locture noxt noason on ** Madama Rolsnd" and * Father Mathow.” Our cltizens will sympatiize deoply with the Hon, B, W, Raymond, in the deatt’ of his son Charlos, who died at York, Pa., Saturday. An enterprining New-Lunglandor gives away hymn-books to his Sunday-school containing on altornate pages clover notices of Lis olothinge storo. Vice-Prosidont Wilson apoot laat Sunday ad Long Branch with Goorge W. Childs, and gave him points cnough for & yard snd s half of obituary poetry. Tho lawyers of Troy, withoot exprossiog sm opinion af the Beochor trial, luvite Mr. Bessh to s dinuer in compliment to his masnsgement of his cliont's caga. e, H. Boschor Stowo has retnrned to Now York from Florids to hesr the verdict of tha jury. Mrs, Btowa hes sn avorsion to popular verdiots ; thoy somotimes go the wrang way. Col, J. B. Moaby, of Virginis, hiss bean invited to locture’in Boston, Hia eye ia not 80 blsok, ag it fu paintod, That lttlo encounter on tbo train, bowover, noarly lost bim a pile of graenbacks, Willlam D, Manchoster, Esq., sgent of the Red Lino Transportation Company, has tendered Lis resignation, ¢ it be aczeptod, it is expected tust his successor will be Mr, Fowler. lately Gonatal Manoger of the Great Weatorn Dispatoh line. J Willlam Cochrane, formerly with Field, Leiter & Co,, was yestorday presented, upon tha eve of his departuro for Bcotland, with a gold-headed cane, a silver snufl-box, and a cameoring, The presentation was very happily dolivered by M. Willlam Edgar, of tha City Clerk's offica. A popular betlef prevalls that Mies Jeffreys Lowis, of the Fifth Avenus Compsny, is the wife of Jumes Lewis, the comedian, Mr. Lowis |a murriod, but Miss Joffreve Lew{s and he claim s doscondants of Mark Twain's doparted ancestor, Adam, Mr, Jefiroys Lewls, Bos Iather, 18 & well-knowu London srtist, LOTEL ARBIVALS, Sharman House—The Doy, A, P, Dlssell, Carlinvilley 0,9, Dodgo, Cluctunatl § J, W, Coroy, Bt, Louis} Ar . Goodier, New York ; A, B, Bleveus, Omaba; Jobn L, Harris, Mancheater, Eugland ; W, J, Bonjamin, New Yurk ; ¥, Parker, Boaton ; ¥, C, Griggs, Topeka; 3.3, Johuson, Cordova j Joseph P, Wiggius, Tudiane spolis; Jumes McArthur, Cincinastiy U, P. 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