Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 6, 1875, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGG TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1875, e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. wines wero in good demnand, and firm at debt,” and thero ia no reliof excopt by issning | wns fonnd at all the points whero tests wero | tired of him,and don’t want to hear any more Sarrn o semecHTPoE (aravte o mawcry, | 118 por gallon. Take freights wers dull more greenbacks The currency ntringency | made, and the atratum of plastic clay lying | from him, If ho poralsts In holding on any Postaze Prepnld nt this Ofilce. andensier at 2o for corn to Buffalo. Flour is fearful, naccording to this Democratio | batween tho strata of hard clay is reported to | longer, he will hecome a nuisance to the pub. Datle 1 ye S13.00) | Weokly, ) year, W5 | wasin good request and firm. Wheat wns organ. But it omits to stale how thoss who | be of the consistoncy of modolor's clay, | lic, a8 ho hns beon a nuisance nlrendy to threo T e i 100/ Klen caplos. 14:08 | less nctive, and nshade firmer, closing at $1.27 aro in the grentest need of greonback, viz., | which is certninly very different from mud, | Adminsteations. 1o has mado s good sliff }‘,‘:‘r‘a’n{‘.’;";‘ cash aud $1.26} for Soptember. Corn was tho impecunious, idle, and shiftless classes, | and which, adjoining n hnrd clay above and | fight, has bothered tha city officinls, has WANTED~Ono activa agent tn rach town and village, | A0t and 4o lower, closing at 71c cnsh and avo to get possession of tho greonbacks if | below, ia ansceptible of a certain demonstra. | harassed the lifa nearly out of Mayor Cor~ which he shows the legal impossibility for nny Conrt to give judgment and order of sale for taxes under Bill 800, and by implication under any special lnw inconsistont with the general law, It is fmpossible to exccuto such spectal law. As thero are but threo business daysin ‘was about to begin, Russsry dipped his pe in ink, and Q'Conyrrt began his oration—in Irish { 'The muliitudo saw tho joke, and Russent was painfully impressed with the knowledge that ho was laughed at. At inter- vnls O°ConNELL wonld appeal in English to tho crowd to ba silent, as the English gentle. Bpecisl arrangnmenta made with such, 7le for-Septembor. Oats were active and | which the Common Council can act in order | tho Government shonld procaed to water and | blo amount of compression, and no more. viN, and has mado all tho reputation ho can | man did not seom to got along vory well, and ;W::'r:;, fl}\al;:,n:t: vlfimh-ul = i stronger, closing at 46} for August, nnd 41o | to save the taxes of 1875,—thoso of 1874 aro | inflate the eurrency by iksuing hundreds of The local architects made prossure.testn at | mnake by making mischief. He can rotiro [ would not bo abla to swenr to tho accuracy of 0 mirtakea, b gre and give Lopolessly lost,—we ara glad to learn that Judge Dicxzy, the Corporation Counsel, hias provided for tho emergency by tho prepara- Poet-OMce addrean in fall, tnclnding State and Connty. lf:.“l i ':' ';;b";' Byo was quiot and 1@% Lemittancon may ba madn efflior by dratt, exproes, | LiHTCT, 0t Blo for Augnat. Barley was nctive Tost-Ofics order, o in reglstered letters, as onrriak, | 804 3@Go highor, closing at §1,16} for Sep- millions of them. Tho Commmnniats have a [ throe difforont puints about the building. | now amid a porfect shower of applauso from plan, but tho Enguirer hns nono which it [ They did not take n single square foot with o | the * byes,” and go back to his busincss, explaing. The Communist plan is for tho | sudden imposition of an excessive woight, | which Lo never ought to have left, with tho report. Every moment mado Russenr's position mora painful, until at lnst, mortifieq and humilisted at tho oxposure of tho real - |M:;m O crIY aTmCumELs, tomber, Tlogs wore nctive and 10c higher, | tion of an ordinance providing for the collee- | Governmont to print any quantity of green- | but caused excavations to bo mado of from | good record in the cyes of his followors. If, | purposoof lis visit, and ot ita defont, ho n:n;: :x:uvmd' ::;:‘r::; ‘e:ml«;u -'{::::: r:rr::; with the bulk of the snles at $7.50@7.90. | tion of the taxes of 1875 undor tho geueral | backs and lend them to the class of peoplo [ 8 to & fect square. They thon piled on | however, ho holds on any longer to nn ofiice | rose from his sent, left tho moeting, and Addrens ' TIE TRIBUSE COMPANY, Cattlo wero netivo and stronger, with sales at | Iaw ; and that & spocial mooting of tho Com- | who have no sccurity to offer, or, in othor | the weight gradunlly and at difforent heights, | in which bo has nothing to do and in which } guitted Ireland. Corner Madiron and Desrhortes mon Conecil will bo called for to-morrow af- ternoon ia order to pass the ordinance. Let thera be £o more fooling and trifling. Unless the purpose be to break down the wholo tax system, and to defeat all rovenue, and leave the city dependont oxclusively on lonus, lot the Common Council act promptly in this Chicago, 11l | $2.50@7.00, Sheep were quiet aud easy, words, gice the impecunious citizens what- [ and noted carefully the compression at one | no one will obey him, ho will mako a very ever ourrency they meed, Is this the Zn- | ton, then at two tons, then atthres tons, silly exhibition of himself, Htep down and quirer's plan of relieving tho peenniary dis- | then at four tona, the Intter exceeding by a out, therefore, Mr. Brenrinan, and roturn to tress of those who have no money? Will it | ton the actunl pressure which the foundations | your business, which was an honest and nso- please explain how the proposed emissions of | will hiava to benr after tho building shall have | ful one, whils you can do it peacefully. The Government seripare to bo got intotho hands | been completed. The loenl Commission Lo | play is over, and the surtain is rung down. of the moneyless, propertyless classos? If | gan by putting down a heavy onk plank, e == they are to give products for currency, they [ and the lever and fulerum with which HAS THERE BEEN CONTRACTION P ——— pdars An interesting paper was recently rend Ly AMUSEMENTS, Henny Jenta, Tag, a Fellow of the Royal Goographicnl Society, before tho Statistical Bociety of Tondon, upon the merchant. maring service of tho principal nations of the world, giving the roturns of 1370 and 1874, ng Architect of the TOOLEY'R_THEATRE—Rwndolph street, between | Trensury, is said to bo at a loss to wmderstand Qixrk Salle, P tol i : + Sirk and Lagahe. prngagoment of the Union 83u2re | ot g posaiblo that tho Chicago Custom- —— Touso examiners could have unanitnosly Dearborn street, eomsr | ngread upon recommending the immediato ADELPHT THEATIE— Monros, “ The lee-Wilch, v ¢ The number of sniling vossels is na follown : e ] resumption of work, e promises to | Mmattor. Thereis no use in puttiug it off un. ? { g f 3 OCIETY MEETINGS. | plek E the report to lx:im,, and | tit Monday, for then a singlo objection will | can get it in that way now. If they work the pressure waa produced wero of a height th:‘lml“ock f‘ffl‘;“‘e;‘: of ‘:h':ll“u}l:"""‘fl}fl is rionaitiys 1™ B, " demonstrato its arroncons promises and con. | defost it Let the ordinance bo passed ot | for greenbacks, they can got them for work | and length that furnished something approxi- | tbat ‘h"’ I"“;)“’ of 187 dlln he ‘“"‘lu""“'“: Amerlcan 863 e "fnfll{x‘-‘nm’,) .33.?,’,.‘.‘,‘,‘,'.‘& =Teqt | clusions, and in tho menntime ho contents | Once, and save the tax of 1875 ot lonst. now. What ensicr plon of getting currency | mate to the gradnal character of tho pressure | fince hieve boon eausod Ly a contraclion o = docs the Enguirer offer to its dupes? brought by the slow erection of the building, the curroncy. Tho argument has no basis — It was found that the comprossion of the | in fact, for there liog boon no contrnotion. MR, PELTZER AND THE ABSTRACT JOB, | soft clay was from 16 to 11.16 at one ton, | OB the contrary, the paper-curroncy of tho Wo print n long, tedious communication | and gradunlly increasod until there was a | COWREry hes boon inflated, since the War, to nesa and work on the P, and M, E. Degreo. "By ordoe | himsclf with picking to picces the loeal of the H, P. CIIA8. J. T1 LID( Yo f b UAS. J. TROWBUIDGE, Sec'y. | et of Architects, among whom, he is COVENANT LODGE, No, 524, A. F. and A, M.—~Tieg- | represented as saying, ho only recognizes two nlar communication thin (Frid; it . b, & . 5 8 o'clock, - Tiaainoen of (méon:x;‘vyg."i?c':}"nflflbé}'& a8 up to the Now York snd oston DANIEL O'CONNELL, The peoplo of Ircland, in oue way or the other, will to-day celebrato the mndredth an- : ) . et , 4 . the amount of more than $75,000,000. Taquested to ba prosent, By order of tha W, M, standnrd of nbility, Mr. Porrem is ovi. | Biversary of the birth of Daxrewn O'CoNNELL. | from Mr. Orro Prurzer in reply to arecent | maximum compression of 2 inches undar tho H s 2000 E WAL RERE, Sec. | gontly dimppuinlmll( in Messrs, Bovixaron | The peoplo of Irish birth who are scattered | articlo on tho proposition to sell the county | weight of four tons to the square foot, and The tables by which the scrip-shover ‘try over the civilized portions of the earth will gather by tens, by hundreds, and by thou- sands, and hold festival in honor of their couniryman, But the commemoration of O'Coxnert's name will not be exclusively Irish ; it will bs sbared in publicly, wherover to do so will be lawful, by all people inhabit- ing oll climes, and speaking whatever lan- gunge, nnd professing whatever religion, who have learned that slavery is a crime, and hu- a st of indicos to tho rocords of Cook County, | 17 inches under threo tons por squars foot, | 10 Prove tivir position all contain one fntal which dnto only since the fire of 1871, at the | This weight wna nllowed to remain forty. | Mistako. Its correotion destroya them. In round snm of £45,000. Mr., Prurzen suc- | eight hours after tho compression was noted, | chldulating tho amonnt of curroncy ontsband. ceeds in doing only two things, viz.: (1) To | and it was found there was no further sottle. | IB at tho closo of the War, the Ohfo Di:mo- ¢t puff " his partionlar indicos and keep thom | ment. Sw:a and their allies clsewhero count #a the beforo the people, in which wo accommodato | Finally, the Committes of local nrchiteots | 7-30 bonds, tho 3 per cont cortiffentes, him; and (2) to show that ho hes entircly | beliovo that tho sottlement of the walls ag | A2d. tho componnd-interest notea! They misconcoived the intention aud application of | they now stand has not beon more than ono | then subtmet theso and = the green- the article so far s ho is porsonally con- | inch, and that tho weight of tho entire build- | ieks ~ mominally rotired by Bocretary ecrnod. Tlo objects to tho mso of the words | ing when comploted will not eauso a further | M-0CULLoOH, and triumphantly deduce 8 con- HOME LODGE, No. (0%, A. F. & A, M—Tegular | and Cursnnovot, upon whom hio confidently Pl 10 Twenty-sosondar, © Memiars acuealy to- | Tolied to sustain tho finding of the Govorn- Quested 10 bo prosent, By order of v, M. ment Commission. In fact, Mr., Porres B.D, W 5 : e seoms to be in something of a stew, and he ORIENTAL LODGE, No.S3, A. P.and A. M~Blated | roquircs time to oconsider hicnw ho ahall got ”..'.".'.!’3’.‘."‘1‘:’;'“ m‘\;':r &"&1’%&2?#’." seBorclock for | o1 of it Becretary Bnistow has not beon TUCKER, Bea'y. | lienrd from definitely, but itis thought bo will not alter his determ.fnation to proceod no farther with the cons'zruction of the Cus- tom-Ilouso, TOMalA, 1ovssnnen wesssssmmoscsesesfi0OI8 The tablo shows n decrense of 1,371 sailing vessels ; but the following table of steam ves. sels bolonging to thesamecountries, shoxing an incroase in the four years, sufficiently no. THR RVENING TO RECRIVES IT8 P fecting touch from Lain loom of Youth, ~The I e Bloaea, of Ve — y— man liberty a birthright of nature. Even in | ““schotao ™ and * job,” but wo do not see why | depression of more than from one-half to traction of Lol much m*‘!““"'um"m' Theso 5 SR e m&‘l?.‘:&fifl%fi'%&:%yfi“ & | THE TAX OF 1874-JUDGMENT REFUSED, | thoso landa whero froe spoech is denied and | hio should. A **schemo” s a plan, or an un. “'z’i“l“'“"m of an inch. This soitloment | 870 o Clacinnatl Huguire’s Sgursr, Mack | comta for 1 Jimber, oaviuns, Bold ugglate. Judgo WALLAGE, of tho County Court, yes- | Where Governments sock to circumseribe the | dertaking, or a proposal, which he himself | can bo equalized by changing the plan, and bow plain a tale doth put them diown, and | Netimatity, - 0.5 e 5 tordny rendered a decision which, "however | freedom of human thought, the name of | admite that ho has on hand; o “fob” is a | there will then have been a maximum settlo- ook only .ntm-ly _l““ titemt down, Yt prove cx: Ehfi @b- " @f’l} correct in tho ostimation of every Iawyer, | O'ConneLs will bo whispered, aud tho winds | pieco of work, which ho also admits that he | ment of from 1} to 1} inches; aftor this, their arsexpansion of §16,704;685. J n IIEI;}, WDUNEG, | win hardly illuminate the obstinaoy of the | Will carry it abroad, and, despite the show of | hns dono, and which he now wants to dispose | own tests and tho observations of the build- Tho bonds, certificates, and iulorest-com- 30m P Govornment of the City of Chicnga. Ho has | bayonets and tho penalties of tho law, it will | of to the county. It scems that Mr. Prut- | ings opposite induces tho belief thnt thero piund notos were nover cnriency F ““‘. They o Friday Mormng, August 8, 1875, refuned judgm ent for the city tazes of 1874. | boheardin every houschold where Liberty hasa | zsr, by his own showing and for some pur- | can be no further compression of the Inyer of fopmpd 1 PAthigfLis ?mmhh"g modltBe m | That his docision is right, nccording to the | worshiper and despotism and slavery o [ pose of his own, has hnd o full set of | soft clsy, This is made out so clently and | TR T daflasiontdts, io-bo'-bodslsianty bt > law, thore «:an be mo question. Ho practi- | foo. Thera is a magic in thename of Liberty | indices prepared, and he now wants to soll | intelligently that the resumption of work ean alipild connt all tha bonda: now oiitstanding H Groenbacks, ot the New York Gold Ex- | cally mad's the sama decision o yosr ago, and | that cnables it to bafllo the schomes of its | them to tho county. Wo opposo thia | no longer bo delayed without doing Chicago 08 part of the currenoy. ‘Their: failuro to do n chango yeeterdny, wero weak, opening at | ho wns vastnined by tho Suprome Court; but | most formidablo enomies. It seoks tha hu. | ¢gchomo” becauso we boliove the articlo ho | positive injustice and the publio sorvice a se- | 52 showa the folsity of thalr oen. srgument. 4 83} and closing nt 88} the City Government, refusing to be admon- | man heart in tho densest solitudes, kindling | hns for salo to bo a little worse than useless, | rious injury. Mdrcoysry thd 1, pos: bent peralioalen: wery i = 5 = ished Liy the loss of several hundred thousands | 8 devotion and an enthusissm that cannot bo | nnd bocnuse we think it would be o clear - R issued in redomption of the. compound.-in- 1, i It is eatimated that in fourteen countios of | of nncollceted taxes, porsisted in attempting | suppressod. In vain do parlioments enact | wasto of 345,000 o the public moncy to REW CONSTITUTION IN MIS30URL tovest notes. The two woro "ot aflont At the | 1if ksl Eiypiias.. k] Pndians tho damnga by floods will rench tho | to fareo the Court to violate law, justice, and | 1aws, in vain do stipendiary courts procliim | buy it. Mr. Prurzen fails to convinco us of | The Convention which Lus boen in session | snms timne, and ognnfiog, iy, withdrawal of | Nahoveripn. = enonnons n'g.gn'guw of s«l'.!,ooo,qoo. The | common intelligence in order to securo & loss in the Terre Hante Congressional Dis- | gang of officlals in their sinecuro places. triot ig stated nt §10,000,000. Tho fitate Legislature in 1872 enncted a P .——“) SR general. Iaw for the assessment and collection o train-robbors of Southorn Tlinois on | of rorenue in tho State of linois, That law };iagudg‘bxfise&m‘tvomn a m:ilch on the contained a provision for tho assessment, lovy, oledo, estorn le\_vny. DEAT | and, collection of taxes for the cities undor Daavillo, Tl,, and muccceded in Xilling tho | 41, ot poneral law. Al that was required waa f:fl:?:éul l;fl?xt engm; }vlu;fl- woa preced- | 04 {ho City Council shonld by onlinance pross-train, foaring danger curtify to tho County Clork the nmount of from washouts. Tho oaution of the Com- | . i pany, which by good chanco enriafled thy govenue it needed for the enrrent year; that f ? | upon the receipt of this certificato the Connty e an 4aly-3uprave | logks should tako tho list of property in tho dental to thicir "mm) caxitiot b 160 h!z;hl = | city as roturned by the County Assessors and sommanded, ‘7 | extend thereon such rato of tax as would pro- duee, from such valuation, the amonnt of rev- enue required by the city; such tax to be collected with tho State and county tax by the County Collector. Tha city had been collecting, or attempt- ing to collect, its taxes undor a special law inconvenienco but sorious sair >r07. 8¢ | known ns * Bill 800.* A yearago, in August, geribed in the London disp “‘:“B"; 11; 1874, the city applied for judgment for the night, It now looks, for » _C'%* taxes of 1878, and Judgo WaLLAom was com. though the failure would ¢ -2°0Y FeS01S, B8 | 10lieq to refuso judgment becauso of the siderably worso and mar _ "% Cub to be con- | oo ring inconslstencies of Bill 800. The Com- partiea concorned thar _° Gncrsditablo tothe | 1o Gounoil refused to be advised by this on nccount of the VA9 Ot first supposed | 1o iion rofused to sbandon Bill 800—by charmtor of th @ Provious standing and | cofitying the taxcs of 1874 to tho Gounty T e B Clerk to bo collectod nndor tho State law. It appealed to the Supreme Court, which Conrt unanimously sustained Judgo Warrace, and warned tho city that the only safe mode of collocting its revenne was by resorting to the gonoral law. This lnst docision was rendered somo months ago, but the Common Council and tho City Government again refused to listen to rcason and to law, Notwithstand- ing tho Suprome Court’s decision had in offecct sponged out over half a million of dollars of the taxes of 1873, penaltics, in vain aro armies paraded and bay- onets employed to overawe, silenco, and ex- tinguish, the heart once touched with the fire of liberty burns on forever, defying time, and force, and fear, Dianien O'CoNyrLn was s man of pence. Born. and educated amongan ardent and ex- citable people, whose traditions and history had pointed to forco as the only means of de- liverance from the despolism of a conqueror, be wos & new teacher, proclaiming a new doutrine. He discarded the pike and the musket ; ho found a stronger and more effect- ivo weapon than the sword, and this weapon was * AorTaTion.,” Ho sought the deliver- anco of his countrymen from British alavery, and proposed to accomplish it by discus- sion, by appeals to tho reason and to the judgmeut of the DBritish people, ol by an appeal to that innate love of jus. tico and freedom which is common to all thinking and rossoning people. He wasan Irishman, pleading especinlly the cause of his country, but he madoe Lis claim and de- foended it, not npon the narrow grounds of Irish grievance, but upon a principle brosd enongh to comprehend the wrongs of every member of the human family, of whatever climo, color, or easto, He was not the mere apostlo prenching Irish froedom to the En- glish people ; he was preaching that liberty which was the birthright of common human- ity, Tis liborty was not circumscribed by sectarianism. In his own emphatio lan- gunge, addrossed to the clerical Influence that would fotter his speech: ¢ Wo take our religion from Rome, not our politics,” waos proclaimed the fonrlossness of the man ond the indepondence of the statesman, Ho was “ opposed to all compromises by which the Right was to be abridged. Lo was not indifferont to concessions ; he aoccopted nll these, not oa final sottlements, but as strengthening the general demond. Though a momber of tho Roman Catholioc Church by education and conviction, he refused to compromise the cnuso of his *country oven when the Church was rendy to treat with the British Government. In amatter involving the lib. erty of bis country ho was ss indepondent of hia Church 88 he was of all others. Else- where in Tre TrinoNk is a graphio dotail of his personal and political career. It tells the story of a man who was a pntriot and a statesman, an orator and not a demagogue, a churchman and yot not intolorant, and n champion of Liberty for Liberty's sake. e accomplished much in bis day, He compell. cd the British Government to liston to argu- ment, It was an unusual mode of Irish at- tack, Ariot or a rebellion could bo suppross. od by troops, and an occasion was furnished for hanging the turbulent, But argument was not rebellon; reason was mot tresson; the mnew policy reached thou. sands who would have denounced rebellion j and the man of pencoful liberty was a hun- dredfold moro powerful than the man of civil war and bloodshed. Catholio emancipation waa conceded by an unwilling King and Min. istry, because that was tho only means avail- able for suppressing an ngitation that was as rife in England ns in Yreland. Tle aimed to make the people of Ireland as free In every partioular,ns thoso of England, both to be under the same Imperial Govern- ment, This was the policy of his lifetime, and, advocating this, he laid the foundations of that fame as a champion of human liberty which is as wide-spread ns the civili- zation of the world. Experienco has shown that his wns tho true statesmanship, Ireland hias made grent progress since O'Con. neis began his peaceful agitation. It has been wrung from the British Government by the cultivatod publio opinion of the British people. O'Connern dend bas not heen less potential than living ; his statesmanship sur- vived him ; and, though he has had no succes- sorin point of ability, learning, wisdom, or patriotism, the policy he originated has been nono the lesa irreslstible. To-day there is no English statesman who dare insalt the intelli- gence of his countrymen by denying to the name of O'Conxerr a conspicuous place on the great roll of siatesmen who mada the ad- ‘vancement of human liberty and human hap. piness the Brst and highest aim of statesman. ship. tho contrary by his communication, in Missouri for several months framing a new bo.th ns contraction ?a corinling the samo Onr principnl point is, that indices, such Constitution] has completed its labors. The !h-;:g twice over. This, he.wever, is a minor as Mr. Prrrzen offers, will be incomplete, Constitution is to ba submitted to tho people | Point. If both issucs had been extant at the sinco ho is not in possession of the ante.fire | OB the 30th of Octobor, nud, if ratified, will | same timo, they would ‘ot have added a| records which were burned, nor of the in- | take effect Nov. 30, 1875, Tho oxisling Btate dollar to tho currency sof tho country, as dicos theroto which aro now tho privato prop- | Constitution of Missouri s o serics of shrods | thoy did not circulato ins money, but wero orty of tho thres abstruot firms and under | 8nd patches; the now ono is a completo doc- beld for the intorest unti1 they were changed tho control of Hanor, Snnovs & Co. An | Wment. It is somowhat difficult to point out | iuto other bonds bearing higher intorest. It nbstract made up from Mz, Prurzen's Indices, | 0l the instances where changes have beon | 18 claimed that the ‘withdrawal of these aftor they had booome the property of the | made, but the leading foaturos in which tho bonds, part of which wero usod os bank- county, would not bo accepted by purchusars | new_Constitution follows tho model of that | Teserves, necessitated t'no locking up of an of property o losners of monoy, because no | of Illinois, and tho roforms generally pro. equal amount of green backs in bank-vaults, responsibility would attach toit. If Measra. posed of late years, may be thus stated. It n}:d was thorefore tant amount to a contrac- Haxpr, Browoss & Co. mako an nbatract, | provides that: No person ahall ba compelled | tion of tho greenbackis, But only au insig- anl incorporato an error of tanserip. | to attend or to contribute to the supportof | nificant proportion of the 7308 wore tion, they are responsible for any dam. | 8oy form of religious worship or clergyman; | used as reserves, az.d when thoy wore with. ages that mny accrue therefrom. Suits | nO publio money shall bo approprinted for | drewn their places wero filled with other nguinat abstract-mokers in the past bhave the support of or in aid of any church or bonds and not with, lugn!-(andors subtracted boen attendod by rocovery of dampges | form of religion; and religions corporntions | from tho circulatin.g modium. Tho fact that on account of thelr errors. But the | can only b established under genoral laws. the discounts of ¥ae bonks did not decrease errors of an abstract made from county in. | The Legislatura is hereafter to be appor- | in¢ ticates that their loanabla capital was not dices would huva to bo borne by tho porson | tioned sccording to population ; the whole | let sencd. accepting them 03 evidonces of titlo, As to | number of population shall be divided by The contractian of greenbacks under Boc- tho cortified coples of abstracts that have | 200, and the result shall be tho ratio for each | Titary McCuLtoon was merely nominal, It boen ecorded in tha Recorder’s office, thoy | Representative. Tho Senato is to consist of | d1d not withdray: & dollar of tho eurroncy in pass curront because they are cortified copies | thirty-four members, to serve four yoars, and circulation, for it wns simply a pleco of of regulnly-prepared sbatracts made by re. | one Banator is to be olested in oach | !jookkeoping. Some millions of legal-tenders sponsible persons ; morcover, these partic- | district, Each Somator and Ropresenta- | "woro tranaferrod from the reserve-fund of the ulnr pnpers aro just as accessible now in the | tive is roquired to take tho oath | 'Sreasury to thi concellation-account, Thoy Tecorder's offico ns they would be after Mr. ngainst bribery, which is sabstantially Formod no port of the active currency when Prrzzen hod received his 345,000 from the | thot in force in Iliinois. No bill shall bo- | they wero canceled, and their canceling county for his indices of incomploto rocords. | come & law unless a majority of nll the mom- ;t.hnre!m‘u did ‘not contrnct the currency in the In rogard to our criticism that the exposing bars-elect of each Houso rocord their votes in | thands of the'people. When tho procoss wn: of these indices to the freo uso of tho publie | favor theroof by yess and nays. All tho wiso | suspended,. fhore was os much ‘‘ monoy would open the way for sharpers to hunt out pracautions of the Illinois Constitution | aflont as thers was when it began, flaws, Mr. Prurzen ought to know that this agninst amending or roviaing laws by refer- K It appears, thereforo, _that none of uu facts suggestion could not possibly bo a roflaction | ence are adopted. Bills vetoed by the Execu- { «cited to pro:n contraction prove anything of upon him personally, It was suggested that tive can be passed only by a voto of two- | the sort. T'he truth of tho matter is n).mvn‘! the men who were doing the work for him | thirds of all the mombers-eloct of each | by the !nllm:vlng table, published by the Fi- might take ndvantagoe of their opportunities House, n.ande'r, wirich diffors from Lhose_ heratofore for finding dofects to use for blackmail- ‘The granting of Stato aid, or u;.s granting | givon in Tiz Trmunz only in being brought ing purposes; or, if thoy did mot, of id by any municipnl corporation, either | down to s later date: then the title.sharks would have freo | in monoy, bonds, credit, orotherwise, to any | - necess to o sot of indices for their purpose, | corporation, company, or individual, is dl- while, at presont, the only complete indices roctly pmhlbllml. All special logialation is aro private property, and cannot be seruti. | probibited. nized by Tox, Diok, and Hanny, Thisis the [ All State officers are to ho peid stated sal danger, and thoroi8 no rofloction upon Mr, | arios, and all feos aro to bo paid into tho Prurzen in stating it. State Treasury. No cmmt.y, town, or other We hava no doubt Mr, Perrzes wonld like | municipality, shall subseribe to tho capital to dispose of his indices to the county at atock of any railroad or other corporation, or 45,000, and hio naturally thinks it would be lonn itscredit to nny.corpomhon. ar inaid of a vory good thing for the public. We think | 20Y collsgo orinstitution, whethor created for othorwiso, havo stated our rensons, ond he | and to be controlled by tho Btata or not, All hus failed to convinao us that we are wrong. authority herotofore granted for such pur- = poso is ropealed, except when tho authority THE CUSTOM-HOUSE FOUNDATION-TESTS, | bna alrondy been exercised. Cities and towns Tho portion of the report of tholocal archi. | to bo classified and chartered only under tocts on the Ohicago Custom-House which | general laws. Whon counties qonta(n cities should especially commend itself to the Sec- | baving over 100,000 inhabitanta, the two gov- retary of tho Treasury is- that which do- | eruments may be consolidated under oue. scribes the testa'of tho soll supporting the | Cities having over 100,000 inhabitants may foundation mado by the Commission. As | elect a special Board of thirtoon frecholders, compared with those of the Government who may framea charter for such‘mty, whioh Commission, they oxhibit great fairncss and | chartes, if ratified by the niirmative vote of accuracy ; 80 striking is the contrast, indeod, | four-sevenths of the votors, shall becomo tho that it would appear that the Government | charter of sucheity. All city clartors are Commission woa inadvertently betrayed into | to provide for a Common Council conslsting making out a case from the standpoint whioh | of two Chambera, ¢ ) the Becrotary bad assumed to start with, | The indebtedness of municipalities is limit- "I'his is 50 natural and common an error that | ed to 5 por cent of the asscssed value of tho it may occur with tho best intentions in the | taxable property, and uo such debt shall bo world ; but, when contrasted with positive crented without tho assent of two-thirds of statoments of actual rsults, the latter must | the votors at an eloction to bo held for that e sccepted by an impartial judge es more | purpose. 3 worthy of confidencs, For instanco, the | The following provision is original and veport of the Government Commission waa m:&hllh’:fl: R S-S i making of prodt out ) elty, h: “;‘h: n:;:::hx;z:o: I:‘:;,.amm: i l::dk:: town, or sebiost-disirie ‘money, OF using the same for i any purposs ot suthorized by law, by any public chitecta find thot there will ba 80 | giscer, shall be deemed s felony, and ahall be punish- actual prossure of only fwo and | ed se provided by law, : half tons per square fool in soma places, and Liberal provision is made for schools ; sep- of not more than fhres tonsat any place; | arate schools to be established for children of also that this pressure can be and should be | African descent, equalizod, #0 that thero would be a uniform | Btringent powers are given to the Legisla. pressure of less thon threo tons per uquare | ture to control, and regulate, and tax rail- foot. They find that the buildings directly | road corporations. The following is anew opposite on Clark streot, the Padific Hotel relgnlhl.tlax:: i und the Lakeside building, are resting npon b i b B vt the same kind of earth, that thoy have a ;;;::::":,:W c‘:lhtuf :-';t'h:r otcer u::‘,' proasure of two tond per square foot, and do | yauking institution, o suscnt to the reception of de- not show &igns of unsqual settlement, or of | posits, or the crestion of detis by such banking in- any disturbance in the foundations, stitution, after ke .“o‘" :’"1:: 'm;‘::&:’u::" :‘:: " tsnar o b haracta f tho s | L e b g, St stratum of clsy were much fairer as made by | iy respousible for such deposits 80 recetved, and all the Jocal Commission. The Government | such dabis 0 crested witn his assant, Commission call this substratum * mud," S and so denominate it because it was found | Ex-Commissioner Surmma and his two possible in certain places $3 plerce it with a | associates are making themselves very ridiou~ sharp-pointed auger, only an inch and a hal¢ | lous by holding on to their empty office. As large. The looal architects found a firm strat- | the two associates are merely ornamental um of clsy, immediately nnderlying the con. | sppendages of Mr, Buxsmax, they nesd not crote, of from 4 to D feot thick; then | be taken into further consideration. They & atratum of softer olay, of from 5 to 10 | will go when the latter goes, and therefore faot dasp, which is by no means “mud,” | we adviss Mr. Suxawix to step down and a3d then another sirstum of frm | out. He cannot remain any longor where be olay, the depth of which was nob | Is withont making himsslf s general laughing- Mecettained, Ty substsatum of hard elsy | stoxk, Ths psople have gob ok snd sels ara rapidly supplying the place of sailing vessels in the merchant marine, they also bring out the fact not generally known that Scandinavia and Germany combined have gone aliead of France in mercantile-maring power. While Franco has gained 87 sleam ves. sels nod lost 1,188 eail vessels, Germany hag gnined 93 stenm vossels and lost 837 sail vos. sols; e — Thero prevails in Great Britain the most extensive lock-out among the cotton mills that hag ever occurred. A recont atatomont shows that ot of 162 mills belonging to the Employers' Association, only six wero run- ning. A fow days ago, the eable brought in. telligence of the closing of the Dundee mills, which threw 12,000 persons more out of em- ployment, and it was thought this number would soon be increased to 80,000 in that vicinity by tho closing of other mills. The cause of this is that the cotton manufacturera hiave been running full on a falling market, During the American Robellion, when cotton was searce and high, British capital was o vestod in Indin to exporiment in cotton-rais. ing. Some succoss has boen achieved, and now there is considerable cotton of a second grade roisod in British India; there isalwo a good donl of the mamo kind raised in Egypt, Africa, and parts of Aus tralia. 'This cotton is used to mix with American cotton. Our own orop has been stondily incressing, and the resalt ix that there is a larger supply in proportion to the demand thon ever befors. Cotton has declined soveral cents within a few months, and cotton goods have declined at a still greator ratio. The cotton manufacturers found it necessary either to stop their mills or to put down the wagos of thoir oporativos, and concluded to do tho latter. Whon this was begun, the oporatives resisted, dopend. ing upon their follows in othor manufactur ing towns to carry them through the strike. But the employers formod a union similar to that existing among the employes, and the result hns boon a lock-out in hundrods of mills, The condition of things is growing worso and worse overy day, If it continues, the cotton-operatives of Grent Britain have nothing but starvation staring them in tho face, for the lock-out {s extending all over the Kingdom, There aro threo degroes of officienoy in & po- lite forco, according to the American standard. Tolicemen may suppress orime ; they may por mit it ; or thoy may themsolves be criminala, In apny caso they remain by courteay, in tha American nomenclaturs, policemen, and theie duty is called police duty. In New York the policemen belong to the second or third class. Those who do not themsolves break tho laws derivo a profit from lawbreaking ; the fow who mistako thoir positlon and arreat licensed orimis nals aro subject to reprimands or ‘a peromptory dlscharge. Beveral instances of crime commite ted by policemsn in full uniform baye lately been notlced fu the nowapapers, but perhaps no one of them presonts 80 many revolting foatured sa that ventilated in the Tomba Polico Courk last Monday. Two officors wero then and thore arralgnod on & charge of jointly committing an outrage on a young snd delicato girl. The detalls are scarcely fit for publication} suflice it to Bay that tho girl was|brutally troate od, locked In a room In a etrange hotol over night, and visited at intervals by the guardians of the posco who had capturod her. In the morning she was just able to drag bersalf to the polico station and entor a complaint, The policomen wore idontifled and sent up for ex- amination ; but there doos not seem to te any expectation of their conviction{and punishment. Constantly-recurring casoa of thia kind almost reconcilo us to the police of Chlcago, who mero- ly wink at crime and take bribes for dolug 80 But not even in Chicago s there much reason for congratulation, since policomen who begln by conniviog at crime generally end in boing actual porpatrato) bt Not many montbs ago, & noted Esstern geolo- glst ndvanced iho theory that the weatern park of tho continent of North Americs was tbe birthplace of the oldest race of men; that the tribes, swarming along the Pacific Cosat, bullt thom ships, and lsunched upon sn unknown sed To sall beyond Lue sunsat and the baths Of all th western stars,— veachlog the distant shores of Afrios, where they poured in hosts through. Chins, Indis, sad westward since, Curlons confirmaion of this Dellef scems to como from recent disooverios In Califorals, ln the Overland Monthly, s Oalifors ola geologiat reviews ihe geologloal evidence of the antiquity of & human sottlement near tbs present Town of Cherokes, in that Btate, sud es timatea the age of that most saelsnt town ab K Joas than 160,000'years. The traces by which this vast antiquity is measured sre numerous #1000 household utenslls, fugod tn uadisiurbed It appoars that tha report was untrae 0, Mesers, Duxoax, Smmaxan & Co. hs' { ar- ranged with the Ppion Bank of Lar jon 1o honor their letters of crodit issued / ere. The recult has been not ' « travel Ty the el |, 10 account i receivod of the firat d8Y'8 @ slobration of the 0'CoxxeLy Cen- tennisl 74 Dublin, and in various parts of Americeh the day was observed with demon- strations of ono kind and another. In Chi- cogo the day was ceiocbrated by the Becond Begimont of Illinois militia, an orgenization composed chiefly of young men of Irish descent. A picnic was gotten up for the oo- casion, and the life and services of the dis- tinguishod Iriah patriot were tho themoofad- | ho 3racor and Common Councll re. dressoa by Mosurs, O'BarzN, Onawas, and | g 00 w{:erfiry the amount of tax for 187 Tesiva, In connoction with the reports of i the contennial evreises wo publish an fa- ;;’;‘i;;’g“;:‘;';:gmc,‘;fig‘;;' oy Smon toresting ““'fl of O'CoNery's caroer, the Legislature was in session, Tz Trmuse Adg sppenled to the City Government in the strongest terms to have the law so amended that the tax list of 1874 might be collected under the goneral law, but the city authori. tios refused to do so, nnd endeavored to tinker and patch up Bill 300. We lavo now the reauit of their wrotched botch-work, Judge Warraoe has rofused judgment under Bill 300 and i{ts amendment, and over one million of dollars of tho taxes of 1874 have followed the half million of 1873, and tho City Govornment is directly the loser of a million and a half of dollars of its revonue. Tho tax list of 1875 will of course be subject to tho sama loss, unless the thick-headed and OQutstanding Outatanding Avrn T A6h Sy 1. 18T $'00,000.000 $376,771,880 ,000 451,869,008 Togal-tanders....... Nat!bnal Bank.notes Hotal . This shows a net increnso of 375,754,588 since April 1, 1866, But this expansion doos not! embraco the very importaut one provided for'by the amondmont to the Bank act a yer ago. DPrevious to that timo the National Bunks were obliged to hold a 20 per cont ro- sarve of greonbaoks for the redemption of the ir notes, 'Thoy are now only required to kec p 5 per cent for this purpose, whereby at lea: it sixty millions of greenbacks have been rel nsed and put in circulation, This posi- tiv. » oxpansion of sixty millions haa occurred sin ca the winter of 1874, and partly aocounts for + the grent glut of idle money in the banks an 1 in the hauds of monoy-londers every- wl iore. But the Inflationists never refer to thi 8 recent sixty millions of groenback ex- pa: asion, but brawl sbout contraction. New Yont, Aug 5,—Tho United States Sub-Treas- urer at noon oper.ed the bids for $1,500,000 in gold, nmounting to $2,315,000, tho nighest bid being 113,02 ond the lowost 112,13, The award af $1,500,000 was sunde at 113,015 § to 113,02, —Telegravh dispatch, Tomaket/ais a little plainer: Tho Becrotary of the Troasury hns boen offered §113.01} to $118.02 of Tronsury scrip, commonly called groe nbacks, for 100 of gold. That is to say, th.s Govornment has shaved its own serip obont 13 per cont, and redoemed its notes at 88 conts on the dollar, It hos made somo mionoy in the operation ; but is it the right way for n great, rich, aud powerful Gov- ernmont to aot with regard to its own notes whidla it forces on tho peoplo as logal-tonder? porversa City Government within the next The now City Marshial may bo snfd to have | foW doya retrace ita steps and certify the tax fairly entared upon the duties of his offico, | Of 1875 to the County Clerk on or befors the Proof of this fact is foundin the promulgy- | second Tuosday in August, which will be tion of two genoral ordors, the like of which | Tuesday, the 10th of August, aro not to bo found in the archives of the | The decision of Judge Watace i3 not Polico Dopartment, Tho first order emanat. | technieal; that s to 8ay, 18 not founded on ing directly from tho now Murshnl will | technical objections morely, It goes to tho strike terror to the hearla of all the guzzling | Wholo ground that tho Stato of Illinois has, bummers in uniform. 1t dismisses from the, | Rnder the Conatitution, established a specifio foroo saveral policomon now under chiarges of | and oxclusive mode of assessing and colleot- drunkonness, an offense usnally punished | ing taxes, and the City of Chicago, instoad with a reprimand undor tho old system, ‘This | ©f resorting to the clear, plain, and offectual mothod of dealing with drunken officers | enns provided by that law, persists in at- will be of incalenlablo benofit to the morale | tempting to collect taxes undor a defeclive of tho Department. To be drunk whon on | 18w, which for that purpose hias no constitu- Quty or under ciroumstancoa involving pub. | tional existonco, and is of itself incapabla of 1is notoriety s an enormous offense in s po- | being oxeented. Tho city inslsts upon ask- liceman, and the ponalty of summary dis- ing tho Court fora judgment for taxes un. charge is none too severo. Another sweop- dor a law which gives the Court no jurisdio- ing menanre of reform ia outlined in an order | Hon of the question. The County Collector requiring the suppression of gambling, bunko [ in June asked the Court for judgment for swindling, and confidence oporations of every | taxes under on amondment to the law which description, and the arrest on sight (and ns did not go into effect until July; the Col- oftan 08 seen, we hopo) of nll known thisves, | 1ector Limself,whon La applied for judgment, bunko end confidenco mon who aro found having no authority to do so even under the on the streots of Ohicago, at the ratlroad pretonded law. The County Collector was depots, or in other publio placos, Thia | Bt suthorized by any speclal law ta give tho looks like buslness. The thorough and | notice when he did so, and the notice he eontinned enforcoment of this order | B3V W&S wholly illegal, s deolared by the will bring about a wonderful change Supreme Court, under the general law, In fn Chicsgo, Tt should drive from our strests | 550rh the notice wes vold, and no judgment the horde of criminals who have flocked | could be E"",’,‘ in the absenca of notice, hither from all parts of Amorica, and restore | ** VoId things,” sald the Judge,’ *are no to citizens and strangers the protection | things.” which ss been 80 sadly lacking for the paat | The Court agein, as he did last year, and eightean months, aa tho Bupreme Court & fow months ago em- m——e———————— phatically repaated, warned the city that the ‘The Chicago produce markets were steadler | General Revonue law was in full force, all of yeaterday, with less doing., MMess pork was | it; Bill 800 was cumulative, and neither sctive and 350 per brl lower, closing at | amended or xepeated any part of the general 31,35 cash, and §21.35@21,87} for Beptem- | law, The general law sets forth in detall the ber. Lard was doll and S0 per 100 1bs | roquiremonta of the notice. Nons of thess lower, closing at $18.50 cash, and 18,70 | dotailsare found in the notice, and the Bu- for Boptember, Meals were quied and | preine Court hasdeclared them iudispensable. firmaer, ab 8jo for shouldsrs, 113@180 for { We rafor the readerto the opinion of Judge short wbs, aod 1940 for short clears, Highe | Wastucs fov the very clear masobing by tDne of tho most effective weapons of 0' ConncLy wns his wit, which was always at hit 1 command. There are hundreds of stories de tailing inatances of his power in this re- sp ect. One of these fa a story where the vieitim was Dr. Russern, known in this co antry pa ‘‘Bull Run Ruesers,” the famous co: rospondont of the London Z¥mes. On one oc: tasion, whon O'ConNeLL was to addross o mc mster meeting in Ireland, RussEnL Was sa1 it over by the 7¥mes to report O'ConnLL's spoech, the purposs being to get evidence theit could be used sgainst Lim in case he shioould uttor languago capable of bolog in- ter preted as seditious, By O'Coxnery's ad- vicw, Russzry, was provided with evory pos- sit e facility for his work. He was assigned & sorit mear O'ConnxLy, where he could hear eviiry word. O'Cownzry, befors beginning Lis: speech; informed the thousands of people prosent that there was a very able English. mim prosent, who came all the way from En gland to report his speach ; that 18 was to bo printed in the London Times, aud that the gentleman was very desirous to get an aeciurate report, 80 that he could swear to it if 11ecoasary. He therefore appealed to the Irhish present to be quietand orderly ; to maka no noise, and to do nothing that could Ais turb the English gentlenian, or cause him to lose a word of the speech to which he was to swear, During those remarks he pointed out Mr. Russrwy, personally, who was placed s0 conspiouously as to be easily seen by all, Then, turning to Mr. Russxry, he asked him if there was anything he needed, if he was comfortably seated, if his pens were in order, aud if he wers ready to begin. By this time Rousxey, had become the most interesting and consplouous man in the crowd. Again sppealing to the cxowd to beocome quist and lot the gentlsman get such a report as he oould swear $9, be informed Buassty thet ke e e—— The Cinoinnatl Enguirer ssys that * pso. ple are cutting each other's throats, thelabore er of the country is unemployed, children ory for bread, and the industries of the land are paralyzed, ou acoount of the searcity of greanbacks, . The oountry, {4 declares, is * grestiing bemsath {ta burdes of matlonal