Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 17, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNIS: SATURDAY: JULY 17, 1876.~TL TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. WATZS OF STRECRIPTION (PAYASLE IN ADVAXCR). tagn 2'repald at this Ofee, Parts of & year af the ssme rate, WANTED—One sctive 3gent in each town and village, Bpecis! arrangemente mads with such, Spacimen codea sent free, To pravent delay and mistakes, be surs and givo Post-OMce address in full, including Btateand County, Remittances may be mad either by draft, expresr, Poat-Offios order, o in regiatered letters, at our risk, TERMA 70 CITY SUBSCRIDERA, Dafly, delivered, Bunday excepied, 23 centa per week, Daily, delivored, Bunday Includcd, 30 cenls per week, Address THE TRIDUNE CUMPANY, Corner Badiron and Dearbol Chicago, I, TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. LEY'S THEATRE—Randolph ateeet, between Clz"‘zolll'l?l-lfll"e‘ Engagement DF the Union Squara Company, * The Two Urphans.” ovemng. Afteruoon sud ACADEMY OF MUBIC—Halted strest, betwean Mnaison and Monros, Madame BDlanche's Hlatue Artists and the Praeger Fanily, Afternovn snd sven- . McTICKER'S THEATRE—Madlron sty Desrvorn and State. Dupres & Denedict's Altetnoon sud evenlng, between nstrels, BARNUM'B HIPPODROME—Lake Shore, foot of Washington strevt, Afleruoon and eveulng, The Chvage Tribuae. Saturday Morning, July 17, 1878. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Greenbncks closed at 871@873. The French Assembly yosterday passed the Public Powers bill by an overwhelming majority, and voted by a majority of 37 to adjourn on Monday next until Nov. #0. The Opposition was much incensed at the latter vote, and tauated the Government with be- traying tho Constitution The sudden and furions storm of Thursday night extended over o wide district. Its rav- nges are reported throughout the Northwest- ern Stotos, while at Bealtimore considerable domage was done in the way of flooding cellars and washing away railway trocks, culverts, and bridges. In the regions within 1iho atorn-belt the crops have suffered serious injury, Fathor Rovsserror, of Montreal, declines to recogmize the authority of the British Privy Council in the Guinonp sepulture case. Rousserror, by order of bLis Bishop, refused 1o allow the body of Guinonp to be buried in consecrated ground. The case wns tried in Montreal, and decided jn favor of the friends of the decoased. The Church appenled from thia decision to the Privy Council of England, and that body Lias sustained the action of the Conadian Court. Tho letter of the priest is written In the most defisnt tone, And will probably result in further nction by the civil authorities, Afuch excitement sud some alarm have been ocensioned in Washington by a report, apparently well-founded, that the yellow fever has appeared at Norfolk, Va., which city is snid to be admirably qualified to sprend tho disesso to the northward, s it is an extremoly filthy town, without o good sewerage systom or sanitary regulations; and, besides, nearly all the New York, Boston, and const steamera touch there and take vegetn- blos and fruit north, Washington and Balti. more havo daily lines of steamers running to and from Norfolk, and there are grave appro- hensions of a severo visitation of yellow fever in those cities in cnsa the bLorrid pestilenco should rage at Norfoll. Not a little unensi- ness was felt in Washington yesterday, pend. iug further ond moro relinble information, Chicago has another club, Prmiorat, the contractor who furnishes supplies to tho county paupers, s undertaken to furnish whisky and ecigars to the County Commis. | sloners, and ho does it through the medium of tho Union Club, an institution of which be is tho solo progenitor, and which has been organized and equipped with luxuries at Lis own expense. It is unliko the Jeffersonian or the Cosmopolitan Clubs; ucither u short- Lair nor o swallow-tall affalr, but o sort of compensating balance betwcen the two, o take-from-cither, ns it were, While the Jeffersonians discuss ancient polit. ieal ethics, and the Cosmopolitans are engaged fn deternining tho quantity of ballots to be stufled into the poll-boxes at the ensuing election, the Unions will settlo upon the coutract percentages, the Court- House construction dividends, and other mat- ter-of-fact questions pertuining to the wel- fare of the Club and its members, Prriorat’s new enterpriso ought to succeed, Started under such auspices, and having such prac. tical aims, wedo not sca Low anything ean check its progross, excepting, pousibly, the Grand Jury, Building-Inspeotor BarLey reminds us that we have done bim an injustice in our critiolsm of the fire-ordinauca recently introduced into the Counoil. He assures us that his ordinance comprehends the suggestions we made, and our misapprehension aroso from the in. completo abstract of the ordinance which was printed by the newspapers, In rogard to roofs, Mr. Damrt'a ordinance goss further than we suggested, Lut we do not think any too far, The pro- Pposed ordinenco prohibits pine, shingle, and tar roofs everywhere In the city on new buildings, except when protected by some five-proof material. It also prohibits wooden eornices, and provides for the removal of those that are now espocially dangerous, The suggestion relative to the afixing of drain. pipe in the chimney commends itsslf to Mr, Baey, and he will probably endeavor to bave it introduced into the ordinance. The proposed ordinance has besn framed from the Hnilding law of New York City and tho law drawn up last winter by the architects ond insurance men. We now believe that it is very completo aud ought to pase the Coun- cll. It can work no specinl Injustice to any- body, while it will be the means of saviug the peapla of Chicago millious upon millions af dollars, if it shall become a law and bs thoroughly enforced. . — The Chicago produce markets wera un. usually imvegular yesterday, Mouws pork was i fair demand and 25@800 per brl higher, closing at $19.85 for August, aud $19.43 for Bcplember. Lard was quiet and 26e per 100 1bs hugher, closing at $18,12§ cash and §19.80 for Beptember. Meats were quiet and firm. o5, at 8o for shoulders, 11§0 for short ribs, zfl 110 for short clears, Highwines werd falr demand aud stesdy at $1.17. Lake fusighits wore modesataly aotive, and essier at f 2{e for corn to Buffalo. Flour was quiot and uanchanged. Wheat was active and feverish, closing o lower, at $1.13] cnsh and $1.12§ for August. Corn was active, and olosed {o lower, at 690 cnsh, and 70c for Auguat. Oats wevo activa and firmer, closing at 480 for July and 87}c for Augnst. Rye waa firm at £1.02@1.03, DBarley was more active and atronger, closing at Y for September, Hogs were active and 10c higher, closing firm at £6.65@7.45. Caltle wera nctiva and fiem. Sheep were quict and easy, Anothor phase of the Police-Bonrd struggle for existence hns terminated, and ngnin the result iv against the Bonrd. Judge MeAr- 11s7ER, of the Illinoia Supremo Court, who granted a temporary injunction against iuter- ference with the exerciso of the functions of the Board, has delivered his opinion, in which ho declines to continue the injunction, upon the ground that a court of chaucery has no jurisdiction over matters purely political, and such he charncterizes the issue in question, Judge McALLISTER says that, so far as this case is concerned, tho City of Chicago must be regarded as in law and in fact rein. corporated under the act of 1872, so that this statute is to bo taken as its present charter, its provisions being expressly applicable from the time such reorgamzation took place ; that this act confers upon the Commion Council the power to pass the ordinance in dispute, olso giving the Council a legislativo and dis- cretionary power over tho wholo subject of? the Police Department ; that the continued existence of the Board of Police is inconsis- tent with the exerciso of the authority con. ferred upon the Council by the act of 1872, by the force of which the provisions of the former atatute relative to the Bonrd became inapplieable, and their forco ns Inwa censes. In the opinion of Judge MeAvrrisTen, it-was entirely competent for the Legislnture to delegato to the Council the power nnd discretion exercised in the passage of the ordinance in question, in pass- ing which the Council in no respect tran. scended the authority conferred. 'The functions of the Board of Police are taken from them and bestowed upon another officer, The Board have no standing in n court of equity, ny the subject is political, and falls under no known head of equity jurisprudence. The wotion to continue tho jnjunction in forco is denied, and the injunction expires by limitation, THE CHANGEABLE VALUE OF GREER- BACKS, The Opposition Couvention in Minnesota adopted the following resolution : Fourth—A roturn 10 gold and sflver ag & basis of the currency of the country, with immediale preparation aud efiective measurew (o secure the resumption of apecie paywents, The Convention.befora adopting that reso- lution rejected o series proposcd by Mr, Io- Na7108 DoNNELLY, of which the following is 8 specimen brick : Resolued, That wo seono rexson why legal-tender Government notes bearing 1o {nterest should not be graduslly substituted for tle §:0,0.0,000 of Natlona Bank uotes, based on 411,000,000 of bonds, beazing interest at the rale of 3.2.00,060 yer supum, Buch & sutatitution would give usan equaily valusble cure rency at & larga 8aving of anuual taxation, Mr. DonyerLy, who edits a paper called the Anti-Monopoliat, insists that the Convention mado n great mistake. In tho resolution which the Convention rejocted is expressed one of thoso fallacies which, nevertheless, to o largo number of persous who have not considerod the subjoot, appears rensonable and just. Paper money, having no intrinslo value, can only be kept nt par by the certainty of redemption, and, to keop this redomption rea- sonably certain, it must be sustained by ac- tive and available capital. For this resson no Government hag ever been nble to maintaina paper currsucy of its own at par. The res. son is, that Governments have no means or capital save the proceods of aunual or special taxes, which they require to meet their cur. rent nnuual expenses. They canuot do a banking business, cannot make loans and dis- counts, and lave no income eave that ro- quired for their exponditures. Paper money can only be kept at par by n combination of privato capital actively employed in profit- able business, so conducted 83 to enable the Lonks to maintsin & redemption, This has been dono in most of the countries in Europe aend in Can- adn; is now successfully doue in Californin, and was doue in various Statea of the Union until Cougress hiterposed and broke up the business. Coungress suporseded this paper currency, sustnined by privato capital and circuluting at por, aud substituted for it a forced-loan curvency issued by the Govern- ment 08 0 war necessity, and which is not re- deemablo, and can ouly be redeemed by be. ing put into tho form of an interest-Loaring boud, ‘The troubls with and the objection to the national paper currency in this country is just the kame as in all other countries where it has been tried: it is not redeemnble, is thovefore deprecinted, and its warketablo value is constantly Huctuating, It is imma. terial what the value of a dollar note may | bo if that volue bo a fixed one, Ifa paper note be worth 30 cents on the dollar, and that value be o fixed and stable one, then it will be equivalent to 50 conts, and all that is needed is to use two of them where one would answer {f it was at par. Iu such cose Congress might keep up tho amount of ‘*dollars" In cireulation by simply declaring that each one doliar greouback was two dol. lars, ond in the sane way doubling all other denominntions, This would simply obviate the necessity for printing any additional notes, If those persons who advocate a Govern. went currency can or will duvisa any scheme or measure by which the currency oan be kept at par, or at 90, 80, 70, 60, 50, or any other price ; if any plan can be adopted by which this curroncy will Lave a fixed value, something permanent and stable, then that will be accomplished which has never been accomplished beforo, and all the objections to & nutional paper currency will be removed. 1t Mr. IovaTius DoNNELLY can propose any scheui by which gresnbacks can have o fixed valng,—and it is immatorial what that value moy be,—he will beconto more famous thau Buy ous of the msny who have in all coun. trica sol themselves up as dootors in finance, ‘The only plan that s ever been proposed by the Burixs and Kevrxy achool is that of making greeubacks couvertible into an inter- eat-bearing bond, the bond aud interost pay. able in greenbacks. This, of course, is ve. demption in 8 circle; fust as if Ar. Dox- NELLY Wa# t0 {85ue hiv notes payable in Mr, Doxsxruy's boud, which boud is payable in Doxnewry's demand notes. ‘The notes would Lo of the same value &y the bohd, less the sccrued intorest, which interest would be equivalent to the same amount in DoxyzerLy's demnnd notes. The bouds, which would practioally be notes of large denomination, would ride and fall in value day after day, and the greenbacks would rise and fall with them, That remedy would 8ot moet any of 4 the fatal cbjections to Government paper maoney, If, a3 wo have said, & fixed valno could bo given to the greenbacky, then n national cur- rency might well take the place of bank paper, But tho lattor has already renched its masxi- mum in amount, Despite the clamor raised agaiust the ** Nationst BAuk monopaly,” and despite the action of Congress mnking bauk- ing free, tho amount of National Bank ciren- Intion is deelining, The National Banks of Chicago have n capital of $12,000,000 and a circulation of only 2,800,000, having reduced the cirenlation within the Inst two years from $1,900,000, or over G0 per cent, Thero is another delusion set forth in this resolation, and that is, that if the Natioual Bonka wero abolished, tho Government would save the interest now paid on the bonds deposited to secure the circnlation. ‘The bonds are the private property of the banks, and all they have to do is to deposit with the Treayury an amount of greenbncks enuul to tha amount of their outstanding cur- roney, and withdraw their Londs, How will such n proceeding wave nny interest to the Goverument? 'T'he bouds will bear tho snme interest in the hands of privalo individuals, or in tho hands of the banks, as they do when deposited in the Treasury to securo Lank circulation, The banks now deposit, in the form of bonds, $117 in greenbacks to securo the redemption of cvery $90 of their bank notes. They can naccomplish the same end by depositing $100 in greenbacks with fhe Trensurer and withdraw their bonds. The issue of greenbncks in place of bank notes would save no interest unless the Government should purchnse bonds with them, In the purchass of bouds, it the purchase was of such magni- tude ns proposed, tho purchasing power of the greenback would rapidly fall from 87 cents on the dollar at the present time to such amount as the street-brokers or money- denlors might choose to give for them, In such & case the 350,000,000 of greenbacks retnined by tho banks for the redemption of their notes would not purchase 200,000,000 of bouds, and the saving of interest on which would scarcely equal the taxes now paid to the Govermment by the banks. The operation would also add ¥140,000,000 to the natidnal debt, for a greenback note is a debt a5 well 04 ja & bond. This would bo a costly waving, unless. indeed, it is proposed to make the greenbacks perpetual, never to bo re- deemed, and of course have the meventuslly repudinted. A WARNING TO FARMERS, Testimony from all parts of Central and Soutliern llinois shows thiat the present sca- son has been an unusually wet one. During all of the spring, and thus far into the sum- mor, rain has fallen very much in the fashion that Wasumvotoy Inving found it in the ‘“‘Farmer's Almanac” in the country inn, Showers, storms, and floods have beon the rule, and the ground has beon drenched to such an extont that evon now, in midsummor, water is stonding in the valleys, and the swampy places are fairly staguating with their overflow. The result of this oxcoss of — out serious nccident; ho has recently been engnged with Bamsum's Hippo- droma in making nscensions ash part of the general advortising scheme. Mr, Nrwrox 8. Gnixwoon was o young man connected with the Erening Journal of this city in a repor- torinl capacity, and, as tho Journal siates, accompanied ,Prof. DoxaLpson of his own choice. It this balloon ascension turna out to have been a disnster, it involves o serious reapon. sibility which-Mr, Banxua or the owners of the Hippodrome must share. Prof, BTEINER, an experienced neronaut, is responsible for the statement that the balloon was in n patehed and rotten condition, nltogether un- At for service, and that the gas with which it was inflated had Leon held over from the Previous day, and was infused with consider- able ntmospheric air, Prof. Dovatbson should Liave known all this ns well us any onw, aud, if he consentod to nscend in these unsafo conditions for the purposo of enrning money, rain, to which also the debris of tho floods Las undoubtedly contributed, is that vegeta tion of all kinds never was so rank and pro- fuse as now,—not only the cercals and ordi- nary vegetables, but also grasses, shrubs, ond weeds. So far ns this richness and abundance of crops ara concernod, the farm- ers have roason to congratulate themselveas, but there may be after-results which they would do very well to consider and guard against. It is now probable that during the remoinder of July and through August wo siall have hot weather as in past years, which will loavo this immense overgrowth of vegotation rotting and decaying on the sur- faco of alarge part of tho State, Deenying vogetation emits carbonio acid gas and other poisonous and malarial gases, and the result will be moro serious than if the country were eovered with decaying nnimal carcasses, sinco there s a very strongly-supported theory among butchers and renderers that the odors from decnying animal matter are not un- healthy,~ntheory which seemstoba contirmed to some extent by testimony as to tho health. inoss of men who ara constantly working in tho midst of these odors, There is no doubt, however, of the unbealthy and poisonous qualities of tho gasea emitted from decaying vegetable matter. They causo intermittent fovers of various kinds which are produced by malaria, congestiva disenses, and stomach aud bowel disorders, and in sections where the fever and ague always prevails in greater or less degree this disenso will probably be greatly nggravated. If the farmers, thereforo, aro wise, they will tuke all possi. ble precautions against these pestilontinl possibilitics by lsying in & substantial stock of quinine and other familiar remedies for fovers and bowel disorders, and taking thom in advanco to prepare the system to ward off or at lenst wenken the at- tack of these discases. A fow precautions in the shape of simplo remedies promptly on hand may prevent a very serious epidemio by checking ita spread ot the outsat. THE BALLOON ASCENSBION, There ia certainly the strongest reason for apprebonding that the balloon nscension of day before yesterday haa resulted disastrously, ‘The balloon must have come down some time during yesterday, even if it could have lasted so long. It is more likely that it descended during the night of Thursday, It was peen on Thursday ovening, sbout 7 o'clock, going over thelake in a northeasterly direction. 1t bad then been out fully two bours, aud, as it is estimated that one can 600 about 13 miles on a clear sveuing across the lake, the balloon was then making not more than 7 miles an hour, In the direction it was then going, it would Lave to traverse from 150 to 200 miles before it could como down on dry land. It is not believed that the balloon had sufficient capacity to hold out more than seven hours, even with & bollast of from 800 to 1,000 pounds to disposa of. Unless it got into a different current of air after it was secn Thursday evening, it must have come down in the water, aud then the only hope of es- cape for the occupants would be o passing vessel. Thero was o severe storm Thuredey night abount 12:80 o'clook, near the time when tho balloon, according to the capacity estimated above, would bave to descend. If it did descend before or during the stormn, and into the lake, there was little chance for the occupants with their wicker-basket and life-presexvers. If thoy had laaded on the Michigan or Wisconsin shore, or had been picked up by a veeuel, there is a strong prob- ability that they would have been heard fvom before this time, Taking all‘thesa oir- cumstancds futo consideration, it {u bardly pousible to aveid the couclusion that the oc. cupants of the balloon—Messry, Dowarvson vad Groewoop—have perished, \r, Don. ALDSOX Was & profossional aercnaut, aad bal made about 180 mscesalony withe it was his own lookout, nud thers is no reu- son for holding anybody else nccountable in caso of nccident. But ho had no right to ask auy one to accompany him un. dor these circumstances, ani the manngers of the Hippodrome are likewisa to blame for having permitted and encournged it, 'The day befora fonr persons, three of them journolists, accompanied Prof, Doxarvsox under the implied assuranco that the ascen- sion was a4 safe aa n balloon ascension eould bo; yet tho disaster wns then imininent, None of these ascensions have been made in tho interest of scienco nor for the ndvance. ment of aeronautics, but merely as a circus. ndvertisement ; aud, if attended by especinl dangers owing to the mean nud stinted nc- coutrements, a disaster is at the same time an outrage, for which the responsible parties should be visited with public censure, At a late hour this morning no iutelligenca lind been veceived concerning the fate of the missing balloonists, although the telegraphic lines wero employed in sending messagos of inquiry to every possible quarter, and the impression has grown to conviction that, Prof. Doxatvsox aud Mr. Grutwoop lave perished. A CLEAR CASE OF INJUBORDINATION ‘Ihere is o wewspaper iu this city which rests its claimn for existence upoun its servilo service as an * organ,"” appealing for sympa- thy aud asking for penuivu ns it griads, very 1anch like the mendicant who turug, his crank on the street-corner, 'Ulie organ goeson with that *‘demnition eterual griwl,” but the grinder has Lroken out into s discordant vocal accompaniment. e Vuistlos all over with resentmont toward the Secrotary of tho Treasury, which weems to dato from tho time of tly whisky-scizures and tho removul of those officials who failed to colleet tho revenue. 'ho **organ,” which hos made its frequent bonst of being “iude. peudent iu nothing, sarvils in everything,” and whoso editors tubsist in large part upon Governmont pap, teeaks out in every dopurt- ment simultaneously—in the telograph, the local, and the editorial —against Secretary Brustow and his administration of the Trens- wry Department. Why is this? Wherefore? Con itbo that ono of tha oditors has had notice to vacato his offico in the customs.serviee, or that auother has boen cutoff from $5 por diem of special Indian Commission? Or is the organ about deliberately to abandon the collar it has worn so long and cheorfully, and with it give up tho only warrant of lifo it has over und? Or doos it assume that its sorvility hoa ot recoived the consideration which it de:orves? *This now and astounding departure from the party treadmill ia all brought about, it wouldgppear, becauss tho Secretary of tho Trensury has not summarily romoved Chief. Clork Avzny, but did remove Mr., Wapsworti a8 Collector of Internal Rovento at Chicago. Wo wish wo could oxplain this apparent in- consistency to the satisfuction of tho orgdn, that it might resumo tho even tenor of its grinding, Wo would like to appenso the wrath of the offended Appraiser and the in- diguaut Black Hills Commissioner, in order that their usual sorvility may bo restored, and their readvrs may got their money's worth, To this eud it is suggested that Mr. Waipswowrm was removed beoause the rovenues of his district were not collected, nud the exigencies of the public service demanded them. In the case of Clief-Clerk Avenx there has been o specific charge of dishioncsty, aud thoe Sceretary of the ‘Urensury has threatened to remove him un- less bo clears himself, We should think the organ might restrain its sanguinary desire to see Aveny's hoad full in the basket until the pending investigution is finished, particularly in viow of the fuct that any general use of tho guillotine might creato sad havoo in its own oftice. Altogother it is 8 sad caso of despora. tion, and we fecl a humano impulse to rush in aud rescuo the misguided organ-grinders it it can e don, P — GOLD AND GREENBACKS. Tas Cuicano TuIuUng, (ustead of yuoting tho price Of yuld, puts it In thl abape; * Grecubacks elosed ay 80,@57 centa,” 1 & newspaper hud taken that much troubia to evinco ita contewmpt for the groenbick dure lug tho War, its distingulsied editar would, fn oll probability, bave Leou sent o feed on tue damp of cell iu Fort Lafayette. The old mioney-sbark st the bead of Tuz Tainuse i growlog disloyal,—Cincin- nal Enquirer, Tuz Cutoaco Trimuxk during the War apologized for ond justified the issue of greenbacks ns legal teuders on tho same ground that the Supreme Court subsequently Lield their issue to be legal; and that was an imperlous necessity—au overshadowing peril ~—which, overriding all other considerations, authorized any act to carryon the War for the national defeuss, - The consideration of preserving the national existence put aside all * constitutional prohibitions snd furnished the authority for that sat, just as, in cases of extreme peril from tive, municipal otticers are authorized to blow up or otherwise destroy private buildings. 1t waa the same authority which justifies one man to take the life of another to save his own. The Government, acting, as the Su. preme Court said, under n conviction that an imperious uecessity existed for such a mens. ure, made this forced loan from the country, conflucating private proparty without any re. dresd. ‘. Mr. Georar H. Pryprrroy, of Ohlo, was then in Congress, and denounced the act of tuaking these Treasury notes legal tonder in the most unmeasured terms, He declared, and this was during the War, that the green. backs wonld bear the brand of Oazx, and that ench is3uo of thom would be succeeded by an. othor and another, uutil, after reducing the country todishonored bankruptay, and covered with the curves of the American peopls, they would be repudiated. The Enguirer and the Obio Democracy are now laboring to make Alr, Prxpreron's prediction of the future of the greenback a substantial reality. But coming back (o the partioular grieve ance of the Anguirer: Tus Twinvxa quotes the gresabscks at exactly what they are soutbern end of the city. ©or two examples wnads of the boys uddicted to this practice, it would be speedily broken up. The followi theft of ne worth each day at tho highest prico anybody will give for them. Fho quotation repre- rentn their purchasing power in buying gaid, cotton, tobaceo, wheat, corn, flour, or nrer- chandise. It is just what tho brokers will pay for them in coln money—in the eurrency of the world. ‘There are Lwo wenys o witich to state the value of greenbineks,—tho ows i to report how many greeubacks it takes to buy a dollar; the other way Is to report how much gold will be given for a greenback promise-to-pay-one dollar. Wo are quoting them both ways; the Enqueirer only one way. Wao cannot perceive wherein it is moro **loynl" or * patriotic”to gnote them ono way than the other, It is jizst s depraved and disloyal to report, ns the Enguircr does, that it takes $115 of green- bueks to purchase $100 in gold as it is to re- port that $865 of gald will purchase $100 of greenbacks, Will the repudintion orgen ex. plaiu the diference ? The second editorinl of the London Zimes on the centennial celabration of Bunker il in in the same happy vein that marked the first. It way publishied on the 1st inst., the day ofter along awd enthusinstic letter de- seribing the day's doings ot Boston appenr- od. ‘The 7%mes rejoices in tho Tovolution. It speaks of Lord Nontu's * unfavtunato attempt to rednee the States to the rank of Crown Colotie,” and says that tho Uritish havo oven more cause than we to exalt in our vietory, because they now have ** both tho old country and the new principles con- tended for nod established by the American States.” Tt wces, too, the deep significance of the celcbration, * The real beauty of the spectaclo was that there were seen together, marshaled fu one procession to ouc nation- ol _slrine, Northerners and Southeraers, Federals aud Confederates, glad to show how much deeper their union is than their difference.” The Thunderer rolls ont ponderous praise npon the celebration that is caming, the nntion's contennial, July 4, 1876, ‘The Bunkor Ifill festival was only n noto of preparation for the tremeudous chorus of jubilntion to be expected then. It is well for the deep friendship that ought to exist bo. tween the two grent English-spenking nations that the chief exponent of English thought should spenk so generonsly of this thin- skinued people,—a people not proud enough, but too vain, greedy for the applause of others, unablo to bo content with its own enlm self-npproval. The change in the tone of the Thunderer is n sure sign that the feeling of the Euglish people has changed. The Zimes nlways reflects the times, ——— " POLEIIOAL NOTES, The Hon. William 8, King, in his Fourth-of- July o1ation at 5t. Clond, Minn., flapped 1he ea- Rlo’8 wings over most of the country, but b did Bot rtroteh tham from ocean to oco! Ho did oot touch upou tho Pacitic st ail, although he niade special meution of ail other means of wa~ ter-communicationy with the United States. Tho omiasion, uuder the citounstauces, (s thouglt to ko peculiar, and bard to explain, The propowition of cortain Bt. Louis Demo- crate to havo the noxt National Couvontion of tho party Leld in that city is received with good- uatuted bauter by the hurd monoy organs of the East. Astho New York Tumes puts it: *Ma- souri lu oue of tho most reactionary of the jufla- tionist and ropudiationist Demoeratic Btates, aud no one knows botter than the Eastorn lead- ers that a convention 1 8¢, Lows would inyite danger to whick the party canuot afford to ex- posa ituelf.” An inspired correspondont writes from Colum- bus to tho St Louls Times auventthbe Demo- cratio programmo, taking & dilferent view from that expreszod in a latter roceatly published in Tue I'misese. The correspondent of tho Times belioves that Thurman is playing the deopast game of all ; that hie has tho assuranco of East- orn eupport, in caso Tildon is defoated ; that he hopes to gain Ohio next year by eating dirt thls ; aud thot Lo 1a trylug to divide Bouthern and Western -intlaticuints betweon Pendleton and llondricks. * It will bo noticad s signifioant," adds tho correspondont, * that all of these ru- mora do not touch William Allon,” Postmaster-General Jowoll has taken a pecu- Uar position In regard to politicnl assessmonts, suowiug somo balance of mind and & zeal well- tempared by diseretion. o takes bia position firaly on threo cardinal principles, Firat, ha will not allow assessments to be mada upon the clerks immediately under his charge, in tho Do partment at Washington ; second, bo will nefthor forbid nor approve nssessmonty upon Postmas- terd and clerks throughout tho country; tbird, Le will uot allow auy emplove of tho Post-Oftice Department to be diacharged for failing to re- #poud o au nesesament. Mr, Jowell says that Postmasters bave a right to contribute to a po- hitieal fund, if they wish to; and, too, they have & right to rofuse to contribute, in which thay will be maiutalued, The attituds of the railroad peoplo in Califor- nia towards the various political parties way be doternuned from the toné of tho Sacramento Unton, which wasrecontly established und after- wards consolidated with the Record in the Con- tral Pacitlo interose. This papor in particularly disgusted with the Republican and Independont partios, and {n somo mossure also with tho Dem- ociatic. It says : ** Wo predict, at thlu catly day, that the people will boat all tho alates, and that the result of the election will be an admintatra- tion so mixed, aa rogards politios, that no party will bo able toclalm a victory. Thia reault will tlow from’the dotermiaation of indepoundent vot- ery to be guided Ly personal consldorations alane. Platforms will count for feas than nothing thia year, for the longest platforms aro the laaur, deserving of coufidsnce, and where tha most 11, borious offorts have been mado to smplify protn. {uos, there I8 tho utrongest roason for distrogt.” ‘Chis means, of course, that the railroad pecple Lope to carry tho Loglalature, even though they loso the Governor., Compare the position of prominent Prohibl. tionists lu the Enatorn Statos with that of the Hon, Joln Bidwell, Tudependeat caudidste for Qoveruor of California, who la such » teetotaler that bie tote up his wine Rrapevines, but who ye- fueed to accept n nomination from the Prohibl- tlon State Couvention. Thie action fs consletent. and respeciable, On the other band, the Probi- bition caodidate for Governor of Peunsylvanin ueceded from the Ropublican party wi the Local-option law was repealsd, aud raceutly ut- terod the following sentimenta s * Recent con~ veruious to the Prohubition faith have been cow- pared to that of Haul of Tarsus, I mywelt sm m & new convert, but I was uot a Sanl of Tarsus. I did not peruscute Probibitlon, Iam not & con- vert on temperance, but a gonvert from the Re- publican to the Prohibition party, The Kepub. lican party couvertea me, By » Democratio Houss and s Ropublican Seuste the nall was driven homa to the head. and then etinched on the other aside by the Ropublican Governor Hartranit," There sy be better ways of ad- vaocing tho causo of temperance than by help- 188 10 eloct a Demooratio State Adminiasration. —~—— Lvery once in & while the tmanls for stesling newspape:s from the doorwaye whore they are daliversd b ke out with new force. Juet now 8 good wmany complaiots drom tha It there covild be oue ber is tbo statutory yprovision for abed ace ol e 5o 1 1t 15 e i pa :——_‘—*‘_—_———————-—fi. lisher, o fn the pereon for whom the nowapaper o perindical was loft, The offenxo ia tha moro comaon Leeanes 1t {e not generally known how wevoro a penalty {s at- tuched toat: but if any oue cr.30 whuro tho thiot fw apprehended bo prosscuter] to the full ox- tent of the law, it witl b in %o interest of the entiro communily, aud will do much to Ariess the coamtantly-recurring souoyance of theso petiy thietta, i Of lato years the melancholy people have boan nnroprasontod in contemporary literature, ‘Ihioy have had the rorrowa of Wentuen and tho seu- timeotalities of Comixse in novels, tho melau- choly Stranzer npon the stage, and plouty of ologisc voraos by young ruymosters, whose wreaths aro alwava woven of o and cvpress. Now, liowovar, they hnve raszon to rojoics, for & new weekly paper has just been started in England called the Obituary, It ia illustrated, aud devoted entliely to funereal subjectw. Tho imtinl number containg s full list of deaths for tha weelt, notices of tho pancipat personages, picturcaof & monastory tomb, a canetory chiurch and & meworial window, vurious cpitaphs, wills, sud bequests, an undertakor's gutde, and even a story called “The Il-Used Underinker.,” Al though all tho eontouts are of a grave character, tho now venturo s well spoken of, and wilt un- doubtedly find s warm welcome among thoso who behevo that 1t is blewwed to mourn. Wo have long hiad matrimonial uowspapers, and, now that tho funerdal newspaper has mado its ap- penrance, the next thing iu ordor will bo a nowa- paper dovoted to tho Interests of tho now comers, wot narses and dry, rattles, soothing- slrupe, safety-pins, colie, and cradlos. PERSONAL, The Rev. R. Laird Collier was in Boston on Mouday. Fivo dollars’ worth of canvns might have saved twolives. Nash & Naeb, husband and wie, aro attornoys in Columbia, Me, Carponter thinka e deserves just enough of that $100,000 to pay his §115 arccery bull, Bishop Haven daclines tha dogrea LI, D. The duplicity of L's i too autagouistio of Haven. There In somo advantage in stepping down and out. Maitland of tho Fost and Mail thinks 0, Mayor Towkabury is a brick.—Boston Post. Our Mayor is not quito that, but be's pretly Liard man, nevertholers, . Hlenry Irving will play Cardinal Pole in Ten- nyson's *‘Queen Mary.” Quito an appropiiste part for a stick of an aclor. John Diight declines Lo attend a mass-mooting of Arthur Orton's supporters headed by tho abled-budied old maniss Kenealy. 1f Police-Sergeant Relim #ar the balloon yes- terday morning, necd of a soda-cocktail or bro- mide of potaesiura is inssantly indicated. Hera is & hint as good to cirous mou a8 to poil- tleians : *Gas to support them out of water should Lo of good quality aud economically dispensed. Judge Fullerton is fisbing on hls Virginin es- tato. . Ilis Iinos are 1aid in plensanter places than they wero, oven if tho fluh aro not 50 big as they were, Threa Orange. Jona,, Irishmon strotchid out in line meanura 18 feot inchies, an aversge of 0 feot 3 inchos each. The tallost woars lo. 14 boots, Had not Barnum better reserve his intenacd temperance lecturo at Bt. Lonis until ho loarne bow Donaldson and Grimwood fared on cold water? The Whim is a little British sloop of 27 tops which has sailed alous for thoe Polar Sos. The oxperiences of hor crow will bo Whim-sick-al enough. Charles F. Chaee, agont of the Erie & Narth Blioro Railroad, who is known in New York as a phenomonon of good nature, is stopping at the 8herman House, Bo that after all the Signor Devatl de Baylon, who gseduced the wifo of Capt. Maocini, of Rowo, aud got s Lullet through his brain for Tus trouble, wag a proachor, Mosby will not lecturo in Boston, afterait, It 13 uot becauxo ho **clerishes feolinga of bittore uaess toward the Union soldiers,” but bocause tho torms aro not satistactory. ‘Tlo 8alt Lako Tribune uays the average Mor- mon usually signs himuelf * Yours in Krist,” and yot hns managed to steal from the Govern- ment €3,000,000 worth of lumber, A Fall River clorgyman, name uuknown, begs laiw cougregation to tako §200 from bhis $1,200 talary. It may bo a joxo on his part, or it may be making a virtuo out of s necessity, It i sald that Joaquin Miller can only get up oue vorkoa day, The country is not golng to the devll, then, after all, for the Philadelphis Zedger can lead him two stanzas daily, * Gladstone hus written a highly complimontary Jetter to Arthur Arnold, who prowptly resigned tho mavagement of the London ZEcho upon its possing into the hands of Barou Grant. A Cheyenno Indian, who imitated young Loch- invar in Bouthern Kaneas, sad carriod off s ehricking bride, waa promptly stopped by a bal- lot, whila is beide-clecs was rescued wildly do- lsious, The Hon. Alfred OrondorT and Gen. E. B, Harlan, of Springticld, IlL., aro stopping at tho Bhormsn Houss, They arrived lers un Thurs- day evening with an excusslon party of Odd “Fellaws, Buffalo Bill, 8 % aristocwatio Southerner, crested fearfnl ivod among the ladies of Loug Brauch, When bLis tuo charactor was discov- ered, the dear creatutts looked right through bim without secing bim. According to the last census, the population of Brooklyn was 806,099, 8o far, present returus indicato tbat it Is now nearly 500,000, This eapid increusn, with little immigration to Juatity it, opons up some ourious questions, A lady correspondent, who asaumes to know low boys cught to bo trainod, writes to an exe change as followa: '*Ob, mothers! hunt out the soft, teuder, genial mide of your boy's na- ture.” Mothers often do—with an old shoa, Laoigan, of the New York World, in & poem on a plumber, doplicta the hero'amildest nct thuas “ B ‘*Man cannot live on horses and regattss alone,” says John Morrissey, in his speech on the Ubrary. Of course, it Le spends all he gsts by betting, he must take to faro, and thst's what Morrissey wauta his Saratoga patroos to under- eiand. Bpeaking of tLe atterapted outrege by Col. Balkpr, & friend of the Princo of Walos, upon tho person of & young Iagy in an English railroad carriage, the Spectator sayw: **The annoysnce Riven to the youug ladyon the Southwestern Rallway last week bas caused a Jively discussion about ¢ ladles’ carriage,'" ete, . The new motor, wantloned aa having beon in- vonted by a Jefferscinville mav, proved failure 1n epite of all that coutd be dous for it, and tho fnventor ia dead freum a broken heart, The fol- lowing poew, just from Philadelphla, Mo be engraved on bis hosdatono t e tried aud tsted to muke It go, :\‘I}h‘rwx :u'l. u' "ll;{fl“::. ** you freud Aud it aiad o hua spieit bustle, ~Zouteatlle Courvg roimmoman oY DO Williama Colle go nominstes sa its represents~ tiveu lo aitend the meeting of the American Alumni Associat:ion at Philadelpbia Io August, 2876, the follow! ng-osmed Alumni of the Col- lcges Rev, Mark Hoplins, Willlamstown, Mass.; Hon. P. A, Che dbourne, President of Williams College ; Hon, Willlam Cullen Bryant, Hon, Emory Washburn, Hon, Erssius C. Benodlot, Hou. David Disdloy Fiold, Rev. 8, I, Prime, Hon, Willisimn 'Broas, Hon. P. M, Dewey, Chasles A, Davison, Euof. William D. Whitnoy, Hon, Dand A, Wells, Rev. Goorge Mooar, Oakland, Cal,y Hoo, Jaimes A, Gardlald, and Obasles B, Morris, 0f Bhlladelphis MARKY WHERE IE STANDS, Prineinnlly Nowhere, cording to Judge Mc- Allister. Ace The Lattor Refuses to Continug the Temporary In- Junction, Being Purely a Political Mafter, (hg Court Will Not Iuterfere, The Polioo Board Has No Standing in Equity, and 8o Is Kuocked Down, Reception of the News at {h City-Talie Exuborant Joy of tho Hayor. Sheridan Refuses to Be Aholished ang Will Not Turn Over the Property. A Marshal to Be Eleoted Monday Night —" Then We'll See,” Bays Colvin, Jako Rehm the Coming Man---A Changg for Mike McDonald as Chief of Detectives, THE DECISION, TEXT OF JUDUE M'ALLISTER'S OPINTON, The following la tho text of tho decision s t3uprema Court—Mark Hheridan et al, va, If, D, Colvin, Mayor, ete., et al, MoAllistor, J, 1t s the settied law of Eaglaud, the parent source of our eliiucory system, that the subject matter of lby Jurisdiction of 1o Court of Chiancery s cvil prop erty, Tho Court i canversaut only witl: questlous of property aud tho msintonanco of civil rights, lujury 1o «property, whether nctual or prospoctive, i4 the foundution on whicls tho Jurlsdiction rots, The Cout 28 NO JURISDICTION IN MATTRNS MERELY ORIMINAL, or merely fivmoral, which do ot affect sny right b propecty, Nor do wiatters of o political character coms withif thio Juradiction of the Court of Chancery, Nor hins tho Court of Chancery jurisdiction to iuteifers with the publlc duties of any deparunent of tho Gors ernment, excopt under aimflar circumstances, and whero necessary for tho prolection of riglts of prop. orty.—Kerr on Tnjunctions, up. 1, 2, 3, ‘hese doctrines, together with 'the further one, that the Court must uct upon fized detorminate principles sud rules, are the crowning result of the great histor. tesl cunlmu:( in that country botween the sovereign and the Lord Keaper of the Great Seat and the King's conscience of tho oue part, snd tho stunly cowwon Law Jndges and lawyers of the otlier, ‘Througl that controversy, provoked by the usurps: Houn of a Court which had regarded its Jurisdiotion s bounded only by tho caprice and assumed preroge Hrew of e sovcrolini—through ‘an lnproved puilio apizlt, aud tho goufus, luarniug, and devorion to brivito right aud tle publio good of &' Not tingham aud Hardwick, usurpation oceased, snd a theretofors lmitiors Juriadiction yielded to & tysiam of beaitiful and varied orinclples draws from the best sources of the civil aud the most profound conceplions of natural taw, and all placed in harmonie oud subordination to the exorcise of tho powers of thy several dopattments of a conatitutional govornment, It such _subordination was necoasary under the English syatem, much moro 1u it under our State Gar. erument. Here the powers of goverument are divided by the Constitution into three distinct, {ndependent, co-o1diusto Lrauches, vix, : the logislative, Lis azecu. tive, the judicial; snd each one b RXPRESSLY PROMIBITED from ezercluing auy powars belonging to sither of the othier departmenta, No lawyor, 1 Lis moat fronzied devotlon to the cause of objects of hiu clients, haa ever, to my knowk edge, gone 60 far 8 to apply 40 the Judiclary TO BESTIAIN TUE LXOISLATURR of thie Htate in the axercise of any of itu sovereige powers. diich an attempt by the Court of Chancery would Do ono of pure usurpation, snd, if carried toa certain extent, would amount to revolution, lutitle competent for'tho Legislaturo to dolegato s portion of its auprema powor 1o local G 80 dous its exerciee in th agonts within tbe limit of s _completely exompt apy court ss it wonld from the supervision of in s bands of ba tho Leglulaturo ftself, This doctrine has been re - ogulzed by every American Court of respectablity, ‘whencver the question has arivon. In Bherlock et al, ¥», Tho Village of Winuelks, 6v Iil,, 308, It was sald? Thisre wro somo acts which s’ municipal ‘corporailon, whilo actiug within the limits of fla cbarter, may & witliout being subjoct $o the supervisan of eny courl Bucl acts aro those dona under ita leghlative and discretionary powers,” Thts doctrino is too familiar to requlre any extendsd ctation of authoritiea for ita suppost, Lut on tie Question of the Jurkudiction of Ohausory I willcite e cake of $ho City of Culcugo ve. Timothy Wrght, de cided at the Beptember term 1573 (usireported)— Willard's Jur. 405. Vith tleso proliminary views, let us now ses jurl what s c3sa is, and how far tho principles av nounced will apply. > 1t shotld, howorer, be said tn the outaet that, so fu a» thin case fu concerned, the City of Chicago must b regardod as 1IN LAW AND FACT REINCORPORATED undortho sct of 1612, 80 that this statute (s fo b deetnod and takon as ita charter, and itv provisiont ar0 made expreasly applicablo from tlie time such fe- argauization took place, This was conceded upon A gnuient, and also that, however 1t might be with ottt otticora, tho Mayor sud Common Couucil, in ofies tue time, contiuued after the new organization as b fore, with such powers sa tha actin ?uunnuwnrund. Theds, then, coustituted the legisl aud exscutin Lranchies of the new local guverum Boc. 02, Art, 5 of the actof Lury, doclarsss Oity Councll, In citica , . sball Liave tha followisg wers: ‘flion, after alsty-nve subdivislons, come 2 following : " Gixty-sfajh, Ta regulate the palice of the aly o, and pasy and suforce all necosaary polive ordluances. “5lxty~sighth, To preacribe the dutics sud jowsrs of a Superiutendont of Polico, policemen aud waich men," . Ly 80, 73, Art, 6, 1t 18 declared; “ Thers ahall te elockea 1wl citien "organized wader (h1a sot the [on lowiny otficers, Vie.: A Mayor, a City Counctl, » Citf Clerk, City Atiorney, aud a City Tressures,” ‘Chen comes Bec, 74, a8 follows; * The City Countdl may, in its dlscretion, from time ta time by ordinanc pasabd by & vote of ‘two-thirds of all the Aiderms glcted, provide for thie election Ly te legal volars of the city, or the sppolntment by the Mayor, with the approval of the Uiy Councl, of » City Collector,d City Marshial, » ity Buperiutendent of Hireets, s Cor poration Counsel, a City Comptrollar, or any or eftbis of them, and such athier ofticers us may by sald Couse cil ba decmed uocessary of expedient, Ths City Cous cil niny, by a like vote, by ordinauce or resalution, 19 tako cffect ot the end Of the theu_fiacal year, discos tinue any oice €3 created, sud o the' dutin thereuf ‘on avy other city officer; and no Hlling any such office su discoutinued alall ha clatm aguinat thocity ot account of bis nalary afte: discontinuunce, Tie City Marshal aball parform duties a8 whall be prescrived by o City Councll fof tho pressrvalion of tae publia peace, and the obsort- ance and enforcemont of the ordinances sud laws auall possess the power and sutburity of & coustabis at cummon Jaw and under the statutes of this State, 'The T4th section preacribes the mode of sppolutment and thien saya: % The City Council may by ordinanc not inconadstent with this act preacribe the duties acd defino thie powers of all such officers, together wilh the term of any such oftice, provided the tarm shull not excoed two years,” After the new orgaiiitation under this act, snd 08 the usth day of Jue, 18i8, the Common’ Counsd possed an ordinence willi a viaw to the reorgantsatlos of tha Folice Department of the city, tiereby OREATING THE OFVICK of City Marahal, Buperintendent of Polics, sto,, 888 definiug thelr powers and dutles, But before thesp polutment waa wade, uuder the ordioanos, the AP pellants, beiug Police Commisatonurs under tho formst cuarter ‘of Chicago, fled a bill in their individwl uswos, s0d as constituting the Hoard of Police of fl-: City of Chicago, sgalust the Mayoe, tiie fu:dividu members of the Common Councll, tho Gomniralst 20d ‘Treasurer of the City of Chicsgo, pufely tur &1 iujunction to prevent sny interference under ssid ordinauce with performance of the dutics of th coumplainsnts,or their custody of books, papary, records provetty, eic., belonging Lo the Yollce Departumests . DOES NOT GO UPON THE THEORY OF PROTRCTING, any property of the complaiuants, for property e no the subject matler of thasuit, The svermenis s4 W the change of custody of tha books, papers, 'f.: ounting to a pesveraion and bresch of trui were concluslons of the plosder unsupported by fick sileyed, The real purpose and scope uf tho Uil s for the'court of chancery to interfore and retaip thest }47tiem in omice peudiug procesdinga by guo waresils feat the quoation of the reorganizatiun of the 1Y under the acl of 1472, Diveatod of the coustdsrativa of an Indury Lo tho property of complainants, 1 Boo¥ of 1o hoad of equity under which such » bill'can bt maintained, espocially 1f the mattars tuvolved azs of purely political charsctar, W 1 have said—and aa 10 §ls correctnesss there can 2o douLi—that, for the purposes of thia case, the fi organization of the city under the act of 1816 tmust on for granted. Theizih section uf thes achdeclarst that, " from the time of such organization or cheoft of hanization, the provislons of this sct sball b 47 plicabls to such citles and villsges, sud all lavs L1 ool ict thesewith shall 0o longer bs spplicabls, But lawa or parts of Iaws not Inconsistent with the vislons of \ia sct shall continus 1o, foros sad 8P s o ADY such aity or villsge, the asime sa &f et eatid O B s