Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1875, Page 4

TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY JULY 14, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. MATER OF AURBCRIPTION (PATANLE TN ADVARCE), Pastage Prepalil at this OMme Tes copt .00 1hio same rate, Wantxn—One active agent in each {own and villsge. Special armngementa mads with sach, Bpecimen coples sont freo, To provent delay and mistakes, Lo sure and give Post-Ofice address in full, fuclnding Stateand County, Nemittancos may be mada either by draft, express, Post-Office order, or In registered letlors, st our risk, TERMA TO CITY SUBCCRINERS, Daily, drliverad, Suniay excepted, 23 centa per week. Duily, delivored, Bundsy Included, 31 cents por weuks Address TIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Comer Madison and Desrborn-sta., Chlcago, Iil, JREEEESUSSEY TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, HOOLEYA ’l'"!ATflE—l’llndanh rirret, between Oark snd TaSalle, Engageent of the Union 8quare Company, *“The Two Urphaus” Afternvon and evening, ACADEMY. 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Judge MoALLISTER, of the Supreme Court, yestordny heard the arguments in connection with the Police-Bonrd injunction granted by bimsoelf, and took the ease undor advisoment. ‘We print this morning a detailed account sy mail of the victory of the American riflo- team over the Irish at Dollymonnt. 'The ele- meats of success on one 8.de and of defoat on the other are skillfully analyzed and pre- sented in 8 most intercating manner by the correspondent of the Now York World, from whose columns we reproduce the article, A recapitulation of the work done by Moopy and $ankey in the City of London foots up an enormous aggregate. During the past four months, ending yesterdny, the Chicago evangelist and his tuneful coadjutor have spoken Gospol truths and sung moving Lymns at 285 meetings, which have been at- tended by a total of 2,580,000 people. And not less remarkable is the fact that Moooy and SANEEY refused to accept any compensa. tion at the hands of tho Committee having tho charge of the London meetinga. A cnsg of “Foul Play,” though not alto, gother with tho tragio features which enter into Onanres Reape's tory, has come to light onthe Pacific const. The Captain and Mate of tho bayk Union bave beon arrosted on the chargy. of wrecking the vessel to obtain the insurazico money, and the evidenco scoms to be crsalugive ngainst them. They conspired togew_ rto put tho ship on the rooks, and at the second nttempt were successful in sink. ing lior. ‘lheir p'ottings were ovorheard by the cook, who has given his testimony sgainat b m, und one of tho prisoners Los mado & full confussion. The peralty for thus crimo is death, and the case is tho first that has occurred for many years in Amerioa. Prof. Mansn refusos o coughed down by Becretury Derano and Commissioner Saurn. Ho Lns wrilten a letter to the Presi- dent, in which le reaflirms his previous chargo of gross dishonesty and fraud against BaviLLE, ot the Red Cloud Agency, snd plainly states that his reason for not submitting his charges in detail to tho Interior Department and Indian Bureau is his boliof that neither Deraxo nor Sxrrn have any interest in learn- ing tho truth, cxcept 8o far as it might enable them to cover up the frauds, of which, no- cording to Prof. Mansn, thoy have long been cognizant, and thus defeat the investigation, ‘Fho lotter is couched in Innguage which clear- 1y indicates that Prof. Mansu means business in his attack upon the corrupt Indian ring, There is n prospeot of trouble with Ven- ©zueln, in cousequence of the neglect or re- fusal of that Government fo disclarge cor- tain financial obligations whick were imposed by a couvention) in 18606 as damsges for in. juries sustained Dy citizens of the United States, Venezueln then entored into a solemn treaty covenant to pay certain sums at stated pc‘x-iods, but haa for several yoars been sadly in‘arrears. Our Government has shown a great denl of forbearance and lenioncy iu the matter, but, now thut the SBouth American power has refusod to pay over the money in uccordance with the terms of the treaty covenant, decisive action is necessitated by the United States, and in cass Venezuela persists in her present attituds, a suspension of diplomatio relations is smong the new probabilities, Congressmah FAxwxLL'S Visit to Washing. ton in behalf of the rosumption of work on tho Chicago Custom-House hias not, thus far, met with the succoss which waa hoped for it, He finds Bocretary Buisrow immovable in his adherance to the order suspending operations on the building, and, while‘the Secretary will receive with all due courtesy, though in an unofficial manner, the report of the Chicago architocts, e regards the finding of the Gov- ernment Examining Commission as the only authoritative and conclusive report which has been or canbe presented. Upon the slrength of this report he has ordered tho work to utop, pending such action as Congress may deem proper to take next winter, and in the meantime it is regarded as highly improbable that the President will Interfers with the course determined upon by the Becretary of the-Trossury In reference to the Custom. House., g Te———— The Chicago produce markets were gen- enslly on the downward turn yesterday. Mesa pork was dull and 5o per bil lower, closing at $19.80 casb, and $19.27}@19.80 for August, Lard was ‘dull and a shade easier, closing at §13.:0@18,12} cash, and $13.12} @18.16 for August. Meats wore dull and <easler, closing al 849 for shoulders, 11fc for ahort ribs, and 110 for short clears. High. Wiuea were quist and strong ab §L17. Labs freights were sctive at 2}@dga for oom (6 Butale, Flour was quiad and steady, ' Whent was mora metive, and 1o lower, clos- ing at 21,083 cash or reller August. Corn wns active and 1@1}c lower, closing firm at 68c eash, and Gic for Angust. Onts were moderately active and 1¢ lower, closing at 48}c for July, and 37jc for Auguat. Ryo wns quiet at $1.02@1.03, DBarley waa active and e lower, closing at 950 for September. On Saturday ovening last thero was in stero in this city 1,424,254 bu wheat, 2,730,~ 749 bu corn, 325,997 bu oats, 1,194 Lu rye, and 7,883 bu barley, Hogs were qnict and firmer; salea chiefly at §6.75@7.00 for Leavy, and £7.10@7.26 for Cattle werein fair demand and were stronger. Sheep wero quiet at £3.00G The Connty Commissioners' ring have con. firmed their printing-steal by adopting the resolution to print their proceedings in the Chicngo Union, o feebloe German paper of small cirenlation nnd lers influence, and in the Chiengo Courier, a little English Bourbon sheet, of the same genernl character as tho Union, except that it has no influence. OF courso tha resolution was entirely superfluous, o tho dnily press of this city prints full and detniled reports of thess proceedings; but tho mujority of tho Commissioners saw an opportunity to wasto more of the people’s money, and did not hesitate to avail them- selves of it. By this arrangement, the Com- missioners have not buly bored another hole in the County Treasury, but they have pro- vided themselvas with an English and Ger- man organ, neither of them very lond or very effootive iustruments, but capable of playing auch music as the Bowrbons of the Board want, and for this music the people of Cook County will havo to settlo the bills, How do the people like it ? The first of the annual serics of collego bont races took placo yesterday on Saratoga Lake, and was altended by a vast concourso of poople. 'The Freshinan contest this year was gomething more than a dress rehearsal for the grand University struggle of the fol- lowing dny. It waain and of itself a mag- nificont race, conlested with o closeness and stubbornuess which showed that the crowa were evenly matclied in point of pluck, nerve, and training. The fierco boat-battles of Yale and Harvard havo never ovoked a highor de- gree of admiration, enthusinam, and ex- citement tlian thut called forth by the splendid contest of the Froshmon yesterday. After tho raco seemed to have been wou by Harvard, the Cornell crew put on a wonder- ful spurt in the last 200 yards, and crossed the line the victors Ly a bare boat-length in 17 minutes and 42 seconds, the fastost time by more than a minute ever made in a Fresh- man raco. Such a finisk was never befora seon on a water-conrse, and the great crowd wont wild with oxcitement. It was a sore defent for the Harvard men, who had staked heavily on their craw, and is a dorresponding. ly croditable achievement for the Cornell crew, whose succoss yeaterday has placed them oven intho betting with Yale for the great University race to-day. EELLEY'S EXPANBION, In the full report of Mr. W. D. Krrrxy's oration at Youngstown, O., we find the fol. lowiug statement giving the condition of af- foirs under the benign influcnce of the high. ost protective tarilf of any nation in the world : a In my own city, Philladelphis, gaunt despalr broods at the hearih-ahlea of more working peoplo than it has sum 315,000,000 was in bonds deposited to sccure circulation, leaving the amount invest- ed in loans, discounts, and seeurities $771,- 000,000, In May, 1875, the lonns and dis- counts, exclusive of the bonds, nmounted to' 1,186,000,000, and including the bonds the aum reached $1,542,000,000, Of the £400,000,000 United States securities held in 1875, there wera §377,000,000 hold ns security for circulation, showing n vast incresse of ordinary loans and discounts since 1866, While the amount of discounts and loans has thus largely incrensed, there is no scarcity of currency to ** meot the demands of the busi- ness of the country,” as ju alleged in all the inflation platforms ; on the contrary, there nevor was such an aggregnto of unemployed money in the Danks as at present, and never was money obtainable at such a low rate of interest for legitimate, and not speculative, purposes. No honest and substantial busi. ness need suffer nday for want of money to carry it ou. Yet Mr. Ksirer brazens it ont thab the currency has been so contracted that busi. ness and production nre perishing for the actual want of currency to perform the functions of exchange, money basis as the only ons which is thor. oughly '‘scientific and honest,” is of the opinion that the time for taking even tho initial mensnures has not yet arrived. 'This is n most romarknble conféssion, Tho timo for heing *“honest " hns not yet arrived ; nor hag the timo for taking even the initial step townrds being honest yet arrived! Mr, Hor~ MAN {8 frantio in his demand that the dis- honest Republiean party shall be excluded from tha coptrol of tho Government and the Democratic party testorod. Is the Demo- cratic party to be honest? Certainly not, arys Mr. Horsan ; the time for ** honesty " hing not yet arrived, nor hna the time come to wnrrant even an initial messure of honesty. 1f Mr, TloLmax hnd been at Binai, whero Mosra exhibited the command that thers should be no more stealing, he would havae objected to it ns an exaction of the ultra- honesty men, and involving a serious con- traction in business; and, while admitting that the commandmnent was the only thor- oughly scientifio and honest policy, ho would have requested Moszs to go back and have it modified, because the time to stop stealing had not yot arrived, nor wore the people ready to take evon the initial measure to re. turn to honesty. There is a law in all civil. ized nations requiring men to pny their debts, and, when this law is enforeed, it for the timo causes a contraction in.the means of tho debtor; but we mnever loard that the payment of debts was a measure of destruction or ruin to any couulry, or in any way weakened the prosperity or arrested the trade, commerce, and production of any peo- plo. The real misfortune which Mr. Hotman and his friends lament is, that they want to have the currency so watered and oxpanded that they con pay their debts with dishonest money worth 40 or &0 cents on the dol- lar, They do not want honest dollars. Like the Holmanites at Binai, they don't think the time has come for ** honesty ™; it would produce contraction to stop stealing and swin. dling of creditors, Mr. HoLman proposss to go into Ohio to canvass for the Domocratic shinplaster ticket; and he proposes to pro- claim from Lake Erio to tho OLio River to beware of the enemy, who talka of honeaty, beeause the time for a return to the begin. ning of honesty has not yet nrrived! Ho pro- poses to insist that the present generation cannot nfford to commenco to be honest. There was shameful robbery and confiscation when tho legal-tenders wers issucd, he says, Dy which dishonesty reaped immense profits; and that the Democratic party, being about to tako charge of the Government, canmot nfford to bo honest or to mako honenty its policy until ita friends have had their fill of the robbers’ profita. With Mr. Hormaxn the doctrine that * Honesty is tho best policy " is o weak invention of the enemy. THE BOAT-RACE OF T0-DAY, To-day, if the treachorous wind does not riflle the smooth surface of Saratoga Lake, the collogo crews of America will pull their annual race. Tens of thousands of people at Baratoga, ten people outsido of Saratoga to overy onc there, are waiting with keen inter- est for newsof tho winner. At 10 o'clock this morning, thirteen shells, &0 feet long, 20 inches brond, resting an inch or two above the water, and holding six brown, stalwart men with museles like whipcord and ambi- tion like fire, will lie side by sido on the broad shect of water. Before each of them stretches a lane, marked out by little flags for 3 miles. To prevent any foul, willful or otherwise, the flngs are set so closa that crogsing from one lane to another is almost impossible. Moroover, the two groat rivals, Yalo and Harvard, neithor of whom would care much for losing tho main race if the other came in still farthor behind the win- ning crew,—theso rivals aro separatod by the Hamilton Collego shell. This is not expected 1o be between them, indeed, after the first milo has been pulled, but ita watery lane will keep them apart to theend. Bo one great danger of a foul vanishes. As the thirteen boats lie there, in the sunshine of this morning, a whispered mutter will run down the lino. Hnnds will cluich the oars more tightly ; hearts will beat faster, eyes will tako their Inat Iook at shore and crowd for twonty minutes. A pistol shot rings out. Thoy are off. There is an instant of silonce, and then a mighty yel. It is made up of the names of thirteen colleges, nnd it sounds like n chorus of ginnts singing polysyllabic Russion, Meanwhile, the oars have finshed once, twico, thrico ; three times the brown backs have bent in line ; and the light shells have jumped ten, twenty feot nt evory stroke. They can scarcoly be distin. guished by the spectators now. The boats are exactly alike ; it takes a sharp eye to pick ono set of half-naked men out of s baker’s dozen of auch sots; and the old-time custom of rowing with colored handkerchiefs tied around the forehead i going out of fashion. It was of little use, at any rate. Harvard and Yale once rowed their races on Lake Quinsigamond, a sleepy pond near Spring- THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE, If wo should judgo of the Battle of the Boyne by the character of the anniversary cclebrations, we would conclude that it was o most cowardly and misorable affair. The dis- graceful seene which occurred in Lawrenco, Mass., on tho evening of the 12tn inst., was o samplo of these colebrations, in which clubs, and brickbats, and pistols, and knives, usually play n conspicuous part, Scarcely a year passes when this scene is not re-unnoted in some part of this country. Sometimes it is the Orangemen who attack, and sometimes tho Irish Catholics. If one faction field, Mass. Tho boats came in sight on the home.stretch, about & mile from the judges’ boat, but it was almost impossible to distinguish them at that distance, though one crew wore bright red ond the other bright blue handkerchicfs. Even this slight clew in now denied tho speetntor. But thero ian system of signals along the lake shore which tells the position of each crew at the e¢nd of ench half-mile. If Columbia leads, a great “ 0" is unfolded; if Yale, n **Y," and 80 on. There are goldon chances for sinful botting 08 these signala flutter up the mast. One boat creops ahond; othoers fall bohind; a vicious spurt or two closes up some gops and longthens others; but it is the steady pull that wins, Occasionnlly a magnificent spurt close to the home- strotch will change the fata of the race and send one of the long bows quivering over the line & few inches and fewer seconds be- fore the bow that has seemed sure to oarry off the champion colors, but cases like thesa a6 raro. However to-day's ragatta may result, it is protty suro to be a good race and a close over dono uefore (n the history of lis country, Thousanda of them that own thelr homes, subject to butlding-sssociation mortgages, Liave been deprived of them by Skerifl%s sales, Thoss who Liave becn thus robled are now Uviug sa tenunts, and aro waltng the Quy when the landlord sall sell thelr furniturs to pay for rent that is alresdy in default. Durlng their tn. voluntary idlsneas during the winter, thoy eaid to their bungry wives and chiliren, °*'Spring will come, and summor, and then we will bave work, but now in tcir deep deapalr theysay: *If it1s thusat midsummer, what will it be whon wintor shall como sgain?” Tho fsrms of the country ure generslly undor mortgage ; ralirosds are pasing into the hands of Hecelvers now as in 1857 snd 1860; machinery stands idlo; water-power ruus to waste,but the intercet on mortgages runs on forever,and forgod, furnaces, rolliog-mills, mines, and other prop- arty, are destined before another year stall pass to welt away undor Sherils' sales aa froely as working- men's homes ate now doing. The Judge then procceded to consider the causs of this deprossion and Its remedy, He found the camo in the rapd contraction «f the currency sud the at- tempt to convert the whols of our indebtedness into gold-bearing bonds, Mr, Kewuey's strong point in all his speaches is the suppression of the truth and the bold assortion of the contrary, Now let us sce about this rapid contraction of the cur- doosn't, tho other is protty sure to; the occasion is too suggestive of a row for Irishmen on cithor side to pormit it to pnas unimproved. In Lawrenco it was the Irish Catbolics who attacked a small number of Proteswant Orangomen who wero roturning from & picnio with their wivos and children. ‘The attack was of the most das- tardly deseription. The crowd began by throwing stones at tho women and children, some of whom were'badly hurt. 'The pres- enco of tho polico authoritios, who wero called upon, seemed only to inconse the mob wore than evor, and the riot spread through tho town, and lasted a couple of hours, until flre-nrms were brought into effective uso, "The shots dispersed the assailing mob, and it is a pity they had not been resorted to earlior aud with botter offect. % Thoro ara’just two commonts to make on these Orange-Catholic riots, and they will apply to both the factions without discrimi. nation. In the first place, the riotain this country are impertinent; in the sacond place, they are everywhoro cowardly, brutal, and jrreligions, When Irishmen come to rency. Wo give tho amonnt of currency 1866 and in 1875, On the st of April, 1806, and on tho 1st of May, 1875, there were out. standing the following amounts : Nationsl Bank notos, Legal-tander notea Totalivsauss .m—u,m.ooo $721,836,868 Here, then, inthe amount of curroncy out. standing there hos boon an aotual expanslon of $76,000,000 sinco 1860, oqual to nearly 12 por cent increnso. Under the National Bank law, as it stood in 1866 and until 1878, the banks hnd to keep on hand a resorve of greenbacks equal in city banks to 25 per cent, and in ocountry banks to 15 per cent, of tho ciroulation, 'Whis provision has since boen repealed, and now the resorvo is but fioe por cunt of the circulation, This haa released at least $50,000,000 of greenbacks, which havo been added to the amount in circulation. This has been another large expansion. There has been also a large addition to the outstanding issue of fractional currency—at least fifteon millions, It will be seen, therefore, that there has been no act of the Government since 1866 which haa involved any contraction of tho currenoy; on the contrary, the smount of currency of all kinds outstanding and at liberty to be used hoa been incrensed in various ways to the extent at least of $140,000,000, Thia does not include the expansion resulting from the enhanced value or purchasing power of the paper itself. The value of groenbacks and of the currency in 1875 will probably average 20 cents on the dollar more than it was in 18(0, This would give us, on the §724,000,000 of currency outstanding in 1875, an fncrease in tho purchasing power of the currency equal to $145,000,000,—that is to sny, the $724,000,000 of curroncy out- standing in 1878 will purchase &145,- 000,000 more of goods and property than a like amount of currency would bave done in 186G, In the light of thess notorious facts, the whole tendenoy and result of which have been to incresse tho volume of currency, which increase, with the fucrease of its purchasing power, has been soveral hundred w.illions of dollars, Mr, Ezrrex's pretonse that the misery of his constituents bas been produced by the con- traction of the currency ia not only fallacious, but rankly absuxd, snd rascally untrue, In April, 1866, the National Buuks had a total of loans ond discounts of 528,000,000, which, with the smounts due from other bsuks and the amount invested {n United Biates bonds, reached §1,086,000; of {his race, The best of tho crows are evenly matched. The prize scoms tromendous to tho contestants. Lot us hope that no dis. graceful quarrel, like that of 1874, will stain the record. Honor bought with dishonor is too dear a purchase, Moy thoe best crew win, this country, common docenoy would suggost that they leave their miserable factious dif. feronces behind them. Americans have no interest or sympathy in the traditional big. otry which furnishes tho provoeation for thesa rows, Tho couses of the animosity between tho two factionsare boyond the cormn- prohension of tho average American, and those who riso above the average can ocenpy their minds with more congenial and profit. able study, We havo things of greater {m. port in this country than the fighting of a sectarian battlo a couple of hundred yenrs ngo. Wo have some traditions of our own; but, better than these, we hava the duty of work and progross, porsonal protection, gnd roligious freedom, Irishmen, whether Cath- olics or Orangumen, have no right to intorfers with theso.purposes. If they haven't the roquisite civilization to participate peacefully in tho enjoyment of personal rights and re- ligious liberty, they had better remain away ; but, if thoy come, they have no right to outrage the public poace and make our satrects run with blood, to in. dulge their nationa} propensity for a soctarian row over lssues located two conturios back and 8,000 miles away, Those Orange-Catholio riots are, therefore, an jnyult to the American peopls, by whichever faction they are started, and a picce of arrant imper- tirience on the part of those who engage in them, which Americans should not be slow to rebuke and punish, These riots are likewles blasphemous, be- cause they are fought under the cover of religion, Now, there Is nothing abont them which conforms to the spirit of either the Catholio or the Protestant religions, so far as both are Christian. They are the very re- verse of what Oanmier and his apostles taught both by precept and exam. ple. When grest religious ware were waged, thero was @ grandeur ond, a heroiam about them that compensated some- what for the inconsisteacy of introducing or spreading the religion of Cnnisr by fire and sword. But when Cunisr's name and religion are made an excusa for fourishing shillelahs and throwing brickbats, vo can imagine noth. ing more eacrilegious or infamous. The Cath- olie Church has alwoys olimed speclal credit for its control of a class of people whose dis. afivantage in the matterof education might render them dangerous Io‘rochty, but the re. currence of such scenes asthat of Tuesday in Massachusetis scaroely ont the clalm, The Church must shouldefia share of the dis. geaos which attaches to rioks 5o loug s ‘* RO TIME TO BE HONEST, Another Democratio statesman has put himself upon the record in the matter of rag currency and hard money, It is Mr. W, 8. HoLxax, of Indiana, the prospective Demo- cratic candidate for Governor of that State, Mr. Howman is an experienced momber of Congress and o man of fair ability ; he can hardly plead ignorance of the subject on which he speaks. Wo acquit him of the stupidity which governs so many of his psso- ciatos, and attributo his looseness to un. mitigated cowardice.. Of all policies, that in- spirod by cowardice is the worst, and aspiring politicians can commit no greater folly than a public cxhibition of their fear of meeting questions fairly and squarely, Upon the currency question Mr, Hormaw thus expresses hinself : The resumption of apecis payment, {n the sense tn which that step is recommended by ultrs-bard-money men, would be attended by s contraction which would be snormous, . . . To attempt to psy our tre- mendous debts, and at the same time make a very large reduction in the smount of our circulating cur- roucy, would be only s publlc dissster, Whlls, thers- fore, eventually, the country must return to s hard. money basis us the only one which is thoroughly sclentifio and housat, I am of the opinion that the ulmp:l.‘" takiug the initlal measures has nob yet ar- Tiv Io other words, that the man who s heavily in debt cannot attempt to pay his debts by taking np his over-due and protest od paper without disaster, That is a states: manlike problem! Tho debtor whoss dis- honored notes aro sold at the streot-corners for what they will bring, must not attempt to restore or recover his credit by taking up those notos § he can only avold disaster by {ssuing more notes of the same kind to hiy creditors. If any man would intimate that Mr, HoLuax thus dealt in his private affalrs with his own creditors, that gentleman would resent the accusation as imputing to him dis- honest and swindling practicos. But can that be any more discreditable to an Indi- vidual than to a Government ; and can Mr. HoruMan ack the United Btates to,act towards its creditors in & woy which, if practiced by an individual, would justly subjeot the latter to the epithet of & dishonest sharper P But Mr, HoLMaw, while believing that {lie country must eventually retuin 0 & hard. . leaf tobbaco, and thnber, they reenr ; and the Irish people must take all the rest of tho responsibility. It would be to the cradit of both if there should nover be any moro of it, —— THE POLICE BOARD ROW. Mr. Mang Surnipan ia & slow talker, It ho is in possession of the atartling facts which lio 80 vaguely and mysteriously hints nt, he doos not propose to show his whole hand at the start, Ho comes out with a littla moro every day, Lowover, and may posaibly tell hia whole story if ho shall fartunately bo finally ousted from his oftice. It {s certainly not very creditablo to Mr, Snenipan that, though he claims to have known for a long timo of the official abuses he now proposea to expose, that ho had not ona word to say about them until thero was a dotermined effort on tho port of the Common Conncil to get rid of him by abolishing the Board. His reticonce herotoforo should be explained at the same timo he roveals the awful frauds and fearful corruption which ho now threatens. The later intimations of Mr. Smenman, stripped of the mysticism in which he bLas clothed them, nre that promiment members of the police force aro in receipt of money from the gambllers to protect them from raids, and that other men still more promi- nont in the City Government are aiding and nbetting thesa corrupt officiala; also, that men holding high positions in the city wers engaged in tho frouds of tho charter elec. tion, aud that certain officinls who honestly opposed the chartor of 1872 have boen re- moved on that account, and certain bad charactors who nssisted In the frauds have been rewarded with official places. Thero s certainly o strong conBrmation in a gen- eral way of whnt Mr. SugmpaN snys in the notorious fact that tho gamblers have been protected, nad that oulrageous frauds were committed at the charter olection in favor of the side which the majority of the City Government and all the gamblers sypported. The Council fur. nished onother confirmation on Monday ovening by ita refusal to entortain Ald. CayrpeLy's resolution oalling for an inves. tigation into Mr. Susntoan's charges. Mr, Cavrorry wonted the Counoil to instruct the Judiciary Committeo to take Mr, Bazninan’s statement under oath concorning the official iniquity to which he hus reforred. . The Council took no action whatever in regard to tho resolution, thus practically rejecting it. Their treatmeont of the subject lenves but one of two conclusions,—sither that body is afraid to enter upon an inveatigation of 3r, Snenioan's chargos, or it is utterly indiffor- ont to publio intercsts, and careless whether there is corruption in the City Government or not. ? Fortunately, Mr. Smenmaw is not concladed by the action of the Council. If the Suproms Court gives a new lease of life to the Board of which he is 8 member, he may summon the guilty officinls on the police force befora his Bonrd and compel them to defond them. selves against his charges. If tho Supreme Court does not sustain him and the Polico Board, he bas the privilege of appearing be- fore the Grand Jury and procuring an indict- -ment agaiust avory city official who has baen guilty of malfeasance in office. The latter course is probably the botter onato pursue in any event. An examinntion of thesa charges before n Court is likely to be mora thorough and impartial than before the Coun- cil or Police Bourd, whero influences on ono side or the otber would be likely to be intro- duced. Dosides, the charges are of & natura to domand o judicial investigation ; and, if thoy can be susiained, the guilty officials ought to be pnnished to the full extent of the law, no mattor how high thoy may stand, . Tn his Youngstown spoech, Judge Kurrzy anya : When the first greenbacks were fasued, the farme of the country wers nearly all mortguged. The working peoplo had boen robbed of thelr homes by long-en. forced {dleness and low wages, Two nsgortions moro destitute of truth or more rockless could not ba uttered. The first groonbacks wore issuedin 1862, At that timo he says that ‘‘nearly all” the farms were mortgagod. The mortgago indebted- ness on the farms of the United States has nover exccoded five or six hundred millions of dollars, which roprosenta only 6 or 6 per cont of their cash value, Thoro has beon no time within o generation that one-fenth of the farma in the United States had a cent of recorded mortgngo incumbrance on them. Mortgages nre given on farms for two purposes, First, when a man buys o piece of land on time, he gives a mortgago until the deferred payments are liquidated; secondly, when a farmer borrows some money to onable him to make {mprove. ments on tho land, such as erecting a dwell- ing, a barn, fonces, oto, Very fow mortgagos aro given on farms for any other objeots than thore named, and the number of such in. cumbrances, taking the whole Union togeth- er, raroly excoods one farm in eight or ten, ‘When the monoy is borrowed to make im- provemonts, the value of the lond s enhanced to the amount thus expended. The iden that Keviry is trying to convey is, that for want of currency inflation previous to the era of groenbacks the farmers had so sunk down into debt and bankruptey that they were obliged, nearly all of them, to mortgage their farms {n order to purchase the necessaries of life and keop thelr families from . naked- ness and starvation. But this is not more falso than tho sssertion he mnkes regarding tlie condition of the townspeople, of whom he says ‘“‘tho working people had been robbed of their homea by long-enforced idlo- ness and low wages Let any man old enough to remember think back to the years 1861.60, and see if he can recall the scencs described by Keurey, The fact is, those were years of good prices for products, fair rates for wagos, aotive demand for labor, and general pros. perity, except so far as the War in 1861 de- ranged industry and business, It {s absurdly false to aftirm that the working peopls were robbed of their homes, or that the'farms wero all mortgaged. When demsgogues make snch assertions they seem to think that those who lsten to them are fools and ignoramuses who may be imposed upon with impunity. We printed {n the commercial colnmna yes- terday a comparative statement of some of the leading exporta of this country during the eleven months ending May 31, 1874, and May 81, 1875, There was a decline of nearly 87,000,000 in the exports during the latter period as compared with the former, in nine articles, — flour, wheat, cotton, petroleum, bacon and hams, spirita of turpentins, tallow, ‘The secrot of this enormous docresse in exporta 1s to be found in the extraordinarily rich crops which Eu. rope enjoyed last yoar. This deoline in the demand for American breadstufis atroad oo. casloned us a direct loss of more than $40,000,000 on flour and wheat. It also influenced our exports in other waye Europs, having Lseadstulls plauty and cheap, demanded less meat, and there was consequently a considerable decling in the exports of bacon, bams, and other meats, Tho decline in prices in bread- stulfa nlso ezerted an influenco on the do- cline of prices in other articles, such as petralenm and tobacco, which nccounts for n Inrge part of the remaining deficiency, Wo oxported an enoanous amount of gold to mnko up for the differenco against na in othor exports, and this had & depressing effact on our fluctunting currency, making it worth loss than before, and disturbing it constantly. Thus the exports furnish an important key to tha solulion of hard times; and, In this regard, the outlook i better than tho rotrospect. From a variely of causes, the Luropean crops of this year do not promise so large a yield as thoso of lnat year, though it is likely they will still be fully up to the average, and the bettor de- mand for American broadstufls will put groater lifo into the commeroial circles of this country, The first enniversary of the Declaration of Indopendence wos colebrated only at Boston, Philadelphin, and Charleston, At least, theo colebrations aro the only ones which are mat- ters of rocord, No doubt some resident of Mecklenburg County, N. 0., will soon show that the biggest celebration by all odds wna lield down thers, But at present wa are con- cerned with history, not patriotic fiction, In Boston, the ** General Court™ of Massachu- sotts managed the celebration, First, the G, Q. went to church, whero it heard a sermon on the text, * Wherefore the King honrkened not to the people; for the causs was for tho Lord,” Then there wore salutes and * drink- ing of toasts "—tho Eleventh Commandment “Thou shalt not drink” had not then bo- come pari of the lawe of Alnssnchusoits —and & procession. The ovening was onlivened by the throwing of shells and tho digplay of fireworks. The cnsualtios are not reported. Thoy wero probably fow, however, for it wag not thon tho fashion to encournge playful youth to point loaded pistols at people and things in general, and peok down tho mouths of toy cannon to find out how soon thoy wera going off. Philadelphia celobrated in much the same way, minus tho sermons, but plus the ringing of church bells, The musio was furnished by the Hessian band which had been captured at Trenton the pro- coding Christmas. Acocommodating pris- oners, surely, At Cborleston, tho com- pany which paraded at tho Bunker Hill colobration of lost month took part in the procession of July 4, 1777, The distinctive Iy national holiday thus seoms to have been recognized early, Bunkor Hill was ignored for twenty-fivo years, and hos been cele- brated only spusmodically and locally since, while WasninoTon's birthday has had a very dubious Liold on public reverence, Tho dotails of the trial of the Norwich (Eng.) contested cloction, which have just been published, confirm all that has been said about the painful prevalence of bribery in English Parlismontary elections. Hore are two specimon cases. A grooer was paid §2.12 for distributing four circulars, or rather more than 50 conts o ciroular, As soon 8s he be- gon work, tho other side hired him to leave four of thoir circulars at the sama places, and: poid him $2,25, By an odd colncidence, he voted for the candidats of the latter party, A man who could not road was sent to scat- tor circulars, and then another who could rond was hired to go with him and show him whore to put them where they would do the most good. The wages were liboral, and both cironlars and votes were dclivered as per agreement. The London Standard has not yet, we bolieve, contained an editorinl on the Norwich olection. It has been too busy writing up (or down) the unutterable corrup. tion of American politics. Atlast tho Common Council has moved in the matter of the Lake-Front question, and appointed a committes of three to confer with the oftlcials of tho Illinois Central, the Michigan Contral, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and the Baltimore & Ohio Roads, to loaso them tho north end of the Lake Front for dopot purposes. Thero sesms to bo no good reason now why such an arrangement should not be effacted. It is o consumma- tion which is urgently needed by the travel- ing publio as well as by the Oity Treasury, and all parties interested will snbserve the wanta of the whole public by comingtoa mutually satisfactory arrangoment as soon as posaible, OBITUARY. WELLINGTON WILLIAMS, The Philadolpbia papers aunounce the death of WELLINGTON WILLIAKS, aneminent geographer and map-engraver. Ho was an Englishman by birth, and commenced his career {n this country by gettwg up ** Mitchell's Goography and Atlag,” which yieided his publishers s fortupe, His isat groat work, whioh his doath leaves inoowplete, was asories of maps embraciog all the ratiway Improvements in the United States, upon which Lie was at woik for the Governmont. Hels ro. ported to bave boen the finest mechanical work- mao in bis art in this country, DH, FRANCIS0O DE PAUL GONZALXS VIGIL. The Iutest advices rrom Panama bring the in- telligonce of the death in Lims, Peru, of Dr. Fnaxcmco' px PAvL Goxzarzs Viom, ono of the most emloent mon in Bouth Anferica, He waa oducated for pricat, but wea removed from his prisstly obice for quastioning the supremscy of the Pope over the Biate. At the timeof hls death ho was Librarian to the National Bibliotics. MRS, PRANCES PARKE DUTLER, The New York Tribuns uayss ' Mrs. Franores Pargn Burnxan (mfe of Col. E. G. W, BoTrey, of Iberville Fariak, La.), who dled recently, was the dsughter of Lawnexcs Lxwis aod Evzanon Parkz Ovamis, of Woodlawn, Fairfax County, Va, Ble waa born at Mount Vernon on Nov, 27, 1197, Her fathoer was the son of FreLp- 180 Lxwis sud Euzaszrn Wisaisaton, only aistor of Gen, Waautnoron, and was one of the executors of bis uncle’s estate. Her mother was the youngest daughter of Jonmn Panxx Custis, only son of Mrs. WasmNoToN by ber firac husband, Dawixu Panux Cusmis. Mrs, Burees's gesndmotber, Erzanon CaLveaT, was the grand-daughtor of Lord Baunmoux. The deooasad was the noarest living relative of ¢The TFatlier of His Counlry,’ and with Abs. Com- modore KENNON sud Growos Wasmmorox Pxang, of Maryland, was the neareat lving rels. tive of Mre, WasrinazoN,” Anothor of those pecutlar rows in Vieksburg, provokod by the negross snd resulting fa the death of negroes only, took place on the Sth nst., and was duly reported in our telegraphio eols umns. The whitea of that vicinity are, by thelr own account, peacesble, God-feariug citizens, They nevor depars from the strict line of duty, unless under extracrdinary provoostions, In this Vicksburg affair,~always takiog their own report for trus,—thoy were provoked beyond sn- durance. A white Radioal stood direatly in front of one of thoe bess clilzena of the town, who was quledly looking on st tbe Fourth-of-July celsbra- Hon, When requeated to move, the white Bad- 1oa! anawered {nsolently 80d profansly, He wes thereupon knooked dowa with a pistolbatt, and {udisciimlunte driog upan the negross began. A 54500 of Ahs wildaa) sontusion and larrcriss tol lowed. Ons old negro was shot and killed whil climbing over fance at the distance of sevaral hundred fort from tho sotion. It has not besn our fortuna Iately to hear of a mors bloodthirsty uegro-mob than this ono at Vioksburg, ——— PEREONAL, Elizabeth will bo heard, Bhe sues for divorcs from Theodoro, The Conrier-Journaldelloately slludes to “ the sword of D——aoles."” Mian Aunie Lonise Cary, the eminent contral. to, is at the Grand Paciflc. Jomepb Armour, of tha Chieago Board of Trads, e roturned from Europo, Bouner says the Ledger {s good enongh for him, but Bonner novor was fastidious. The compressed ale locomotive has fugy reached Glasgow. Boience moving in s circle, Boston spartowa rido on trost-cars, Thoy not unoaturally fancy the lazy vehicles ara stationary. ' Georgo Brown's lifa {s oar," sayn the Boston Post, 'Truly, this raco is run, but he'll got a faiy slart in the noxt world. ‘Thera are fiftoon Iady physicians studying In Zurlch UniversRy. Like the vampire, they fas. cinate whilo they draw blood. Caney 1sland has lost ita attractions, for long. haired men are afraid to go bathing with ladies of advancod opluions nowadays. Presidont Grant, accompanied by Gov. Hart- ranft, of Ponveylvanta, who 18 his guest, ar. rived at Long Branch from Caps May yesterday, Frank Moulton's pursult of justice in this clty peocma to bo about as encouraging as trying to tunnol tho Alleghonios with a toothpick.— Brookiyn Argua. ‘When you soc & man on the atrests woarlog gogglos, and nearly blind, such men are readers of the Chicsgo Z'intes 1n it new dress.~IUinois Blate Register, The Rov. Mr Postlethwalte, Asalstant Bector of Christ Church, started last Monday on & plensure trip to the East. Ho will be absent about six weeks. Tho ludy pirats plays & promioment part in Cliness political economy, Bha never will Joave Ah 8in while sho Las & cutlass in hand or be a dollar fo sorip. *That's right ; disbard. I enjoy this, I do® waa tho encouraging exclamation of ao Indian- apolls womau sy slio patted her mmoking pisiv aod Licked hor prostrate rival in the stomach” There have dozens of Arctio expeditions bean sont out fn search of thd North Pole, but not one Lardy marioer Las solved the problem by steering Into Lake Michigan snd wouth to Chi~ 0ago. Mr. 8. C. Cary, General Ticket Agent of the Now Orleaus, Bt. Louls & Chicago Railroad, i in the city arraoging rom# busineas with the General Tickot Agent of the Iltwnols Central Railroad. Tho loyal oitizens of Ban Franoisoo kicked Ah Bam, but the hesthon koows how many shots make ono revolver it ho knows nothing elas, and Ah 8am loarned enough to make every ahot tell, Kiiled, 0 ; wounded, 7. Dilly Manning bas been so far * benafited” 28 to play **Open on Sunday" in Cincinuatl, It'a the custom thore to go *‘over the Rhiue,” but Biily is liable to exaggerate the practice by going ** half-seas over." “Frank Dlair !s doad,” gays the 8t, Paul DPioneer~Press, *'vivisootion cowld not save him.” It was his friends, pot himaelf, who were out up at his death, but no ottiafsl record exiats of Gen. Dlalr's sufforing the same tor- tures, Having been vaguely referred to darlug the past tweolve trying months as & repository of mepblitio confldences and s volums of uncanny kunowledge, Mrs. Elizabeth Oady Stanton ane nounces her Intention o lecturo next soason on ¢ Tue Home." ‘Thomas Oldalo, of Sheflield, is the modern Tichborue. He'll learn to oporate the sewing- machine in prison before long, if he gets into courts with his miserabls story, for thero's nothing & whito man hates like tho ropetition of a0 0Id tale, The King of Bweden has five female oousins. Thoy are not pretty ; they have no money; they don't even affoct literalure or write for the mag- azinea; but they can drive over more peddlers’ ‘wagons and kil more small boys than any ton women of thelr woight In Europe. This is shocling, indead, to a monarch whosse gait is no livolior thau an ‘Oscar. An Tows man {a writing a new Dible. The old one has failed to golde the avernge Iowan into the paths of peace, and the Commandment, *Thow shalt do no murder,” has provoked so much hos- tile eriticism among the upper classes that the new editor bas dacided to omit 18, It Is vaguely hinted that the whole chaptor from Exodus will bd modified for famity nse, Alexander H. 8tophens takes pleasurs in an- nounoing to his numorous admirers that *‘hix whole soul i in the Centonnial movement.” Mr. G. W, Childa will ploase respond io verse as be: comea the ocoasion, somawhat thua ¢ e was a man who laved our city, 1u's gone ta glory, more's the plty; Our counclation {s he'll maka & Job for s local undertaker, A colored base-ball club in New Haven have a «quoer way of tealing tholr oppononts’. sbility ta atop balls, One of thom sent a bullet at the Arst baseman just as ho was about to put him ont, made seoond, and bad ouly just time to reach third base when the pistol gave ont and left him on baso, Hoe thinks the gratuitous puffs of the Drowu & Dalderdssh piatol should be prohibited by law, 1t the Chioago T¥mes' propristor would only take it in his head to use solid blacks for print- ing his shoat, inatead of the modifiea blooks now used with falnt lines running here and there bo- tween tha mpaces supposed {o bo occupied by the types, it might bo Just a Mttle loss leglble than it is now, bat it is evident there would be & great gain {ntho moral influence of tho paper from the imposslbility of resding it. Howaver, it comea no near to what we have suggasted thak the difference is scarcely apprediable.—Jlinols State Journal. The last hours of s condemned murderer in Georgis wero speat roocently in wituessing the atrugglo of a Catholio priest, two Baptist miuis- ters, and one Methodist preacher, Aw the fight waxod flerce lie begau to realize the value of an lmmortsl soul, and, after the Jaller had taken all but the Methodist to undorgo the neceasary Ye- palr incidental to s free fight in the corridor, he politely informed the victorfous churchman that “he guessed ba'd take his soul with him when ho diod ; much obliged, but be might need it." TOTXL ABRIVALS. Sherman Houss—Georgo E, Phelan, New Yorkj W, 8, Josoph, Columbus; Gearge Rex, Ohlo; A. Gook, Baneca Fallag D, W, Yoster, Oleveland; J, O, MoVay, Yankion ; B Forter Meson, Boston; A, Hudley, Kansas; 4. L, Holden, Aurora; ¥, W. Hartrlg, New York; J. B, Jowslt, Coloredo; ¥\ B, Meyers, Pittse ‘burg ; Willlam L, Taylor, New York; F, B, Wilkios, Duluth } Goorge W, Grabam, Michigen; E, T. Casa, Providence; Ceorge Paabody, 'Troy,..,Zremond House—Ms}, J, W. Powsll, Washington; Corne~ Uus Vanderbilt, Jr, New York ; H, Pink- n Jal ; k»mugfl,vdvi' Mi‘n ng. "”;- ‘:E‘ m’»’ S & Blzuble, Gan ABiosios - Leon D Fmt Kt. Louis ; Gearge Uolton, Delavan J, A, Klme Noeuah, .., Faliner livuse—Matbew L., P, Yuls bis: T. 8, Btraiford, Austin: G, ¥, Yales N, i M,k Johoston E 1. Deuslow, New V. Wit Mvmiactanaite s oo bisfooess - W, 4 8. O, Kodgor B, W, Clarke, 8t, Loul ars, Teoy ; Buchauso, Ban Prancisco; 1. £, Fab mer, Omsbai David_ J. Browns, sSitteburg§ Netban ¥, OUOulver, Denver: R, Rildis, Loodon; Wilism 1. Lewis, Wasbington Joho @, Fool, Toiane § H, W, Deldsn, Galwpurg; A aos Qonnell, New York: J.H. Dayton, U, 8, N.j W. We Legyott, Oblog J. W, Mrankiin, Baltimore; W. H. wson, Grin § Chartos Gileon, Bt, Louls uonn W, Halob, bine dlunadt{ Lioyd G, Harris, Bt Louls; Judye James Gni oty B Rl Tows o T Iiisdeiphiat Judge J, M. Tebbeits, Hurroldebury Joln_Pratuer, Moutans | i. A, Knapp. Menom| . D, lssoou, w-ulnhu'c. § 44 Q. Baotly BA, La