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

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE AUGUST 17, 1875 TERMS OF THE TRIBUN — BATEA OF AUTRCAIPTION (PATADLE IX ADVAXCE). Pontage Prepald ot thin Onlee. 1 SU3.00 | Weekly, ) -3 irll!’:;te 'f’nn 380 w;.C: J‘,‘. o i‘gg iiiian, Tenc A Gouie shaot.cre B.00] 1P Ll Pastn of s year at the ssme mato, WANTED—One active sgent in esch town snd village, Speclsl azrangements made with such, pecimen copies eent frec, % To provent delsy and mistakes, b wurs and give Pont-Offico address 10 full, Including Statoand County. Remittances may bo mads eiter by dratt, cxpross, Post-Ofiee order, or In regitered letters, at our risk, TERAMA TO CITY BUBKCRINERS, Dafly, delfvered, Buniay excepled, 33 conta per week, Darly, delivered, Sunday fnclnded, 30 cents por weck, Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Gorner Madison and Dearborn-ta,. Chicago, ik —_—— TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. CIMCAGN THEATRE~Clark slreef, betwoon Ran« dolgh and Lake, ¢ Tom Peuryn.” HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph wtrect, between Clark and LaSalle, Engsgemont of John Dillon, “ure” ADELPHI TIEATRE—Dearborn street, eorner Monroe, * Hand avd Glove,” ——— SOCIETY MEETINGS. ATTENTION, IR KNIONTS!~Stated concl y, No, 1., K. T., this (Tu ning at & o'clock, at | yinm, for busineps on K. T, Order,” Viniting 8ir Knights cour vited, By order of tho E. C. 1t B, W. IOCKE, Recorder. Bhe Chisags Tibune. Tuesday Morming, August 17, 1875, At the New York Gold Exchange yestorday greenbacks opened nt 88}, and foll off o shinde, Lut finally closed at 88}, 4 Unforescon events” will prevent 3r. Jrrrenson Davis from delivering tho address at the Winnebago County Iuir. At lenst this iy the way lo pats it in a telegram to the Dircetors; and a rather neat way it is of sny- ing that he had not forescen any such degrea of opposition as that which hns been devel- oped since he was nnnounced as the orator of the occasion. At tho recent Cotton Couvention, Col. Buinars, of North Carolinn, protested ngainst selling Innd to the negroes and poor whites, and gaid they *didn't want any forty-acre and one-mulo. farms™ at tho Bouth. Tho. sort of thing Col. Brinars prefers is prob. ably n four-hundred acro and no-mulo farni, gtocked with ono donkey,—the awner, Martnew Bexsen, the preseut Chief of tho Fire Department, was last cvening nomi- nated by the Mayor, aud, without debate or o dissenting vote, confirmed by the Common Council as Firo Marshal under the ordinance reorganizing that Department. Ar. Bexyen enjoys the confidence of the peoplo as & man who lips proved his capacity and fitness in his position, and tho appointment will be generally approved. Tho New York World, baving been com- pelled to stop ita attncks npon the safety of hicago above ground, has now commenced & gencral onslaught upon the city below the surface, aud calls Chicago n mud-hole, What is the matter with the World? What has Chicago been doing to it that it should rave every timo the pnme of tho city is men- tioned, and throw mud? We fear tho World is misled by some prejudiced person. It shonld como hero and look sbout for itself a littlo, just to sea how lively a mud-holo can Onee moro Tne Tonune takes pleasura in crediting o ramor, which ought to bo true if it isn't, but which, in this easo, is given upon excellent authority, It is that the Président having given the mntter of the Chicago Cus- tom-ouse building close attention, and hav- ing couforred with Seorotary Bristow on the subject, n conclusion hns been reached which will be mtisfactory to tho paoplo of Chicago. It is further stated that the undorstanding ar- rived at contemplates a modification of the order suspending work, This will indeod be satisfactory to the peoplo of Chicago. If {ho mowbers of tho Whisky Ring and their newspoper opologists bave huggoed the - precious notion thnt there was any diangree- ment betwoen President Graxt und Secretary Bristow on tha subject of a relentless pros- ecution of the offenders, they may now dis- miss that delusion forever and got ready to appear in court and offer tho best defonso possible under tho circumstances. 'The Pres- idont has just wtitten a letter to tho Secretary of the Treasury in which ho urges increased rigor in hunting down parties guilty of do-, froudivg the revenue, and that particolar severily be cxercived in denling with those who boast of protection by infinential partiss, The Philadelphia authoritics have for- biddou the litlle boya of that city to.fly kites any more in the highways or public squarcs under a penally of &5 for ench offense. The principal provocation for this order secms to be tho fact that the wires of the telegraph got so littered up with kites, and sometimes 8o injured by the kite-fiyers in rescuing their property, as to be uscless for hours. What a pity that somo of tho larger boys cannot be prohibited from this business alsol Hera is Jax Gouwp, for instance, flying all manner of kites, which have recently becoms snnrled all kinda of ways with tho telegraph-wires, —so much so that its difficalt to tell one from the other or who owns either. ————emens Auatria calls upon Turkey to employ moro encrgetio means than she has heretoforo used in dealing wtth the insurrection in Herze- govina. The former power is undoubtedly becoming anxious on account of her own posacesions in that quarter, and there appoars to be good reason for this uncasinesa on the part of Austrin, Latest sdvices show that the movement of the insurgents fn Herzegovina have received little or no check from the Turkish troops, the dispatches announciog tho defeat of a Turkish garrison ond capturs of atown by the rebels. ‘The peoplo of Turkish Croa- tis have nasv visen {u arms, which fact, also, admonishes Austria that trouble is ppproach- ing her own door, and that remedics must be sought to provent the spread of the insurrece tlon, Turkish Croatia is bounded Ly Aus. trian Oroatis, Bosala, and Herzegovin, and the blaze of insurrection well-started thero, it would bo difficult to prediot when the war would end. The Chieago produce markots wore mostly weak yesterday, with a good deal of trading in grain. Meas pork was quiet, snd 100 per brl lower, closing at §20.80 cash or sollor Beptember, Lfiwm dull and 200 per 100 1bs lower, closing at §18.42} cash or seller Sep- tember, Meatsworo qulet and ashade essier, at 8)@8jo for shoulders, 12}o faor short rihe. and 1280 for shors clears' Highwines wero quict nnd firm, at §L19 por gal- lon. Lake freights were dull and firm, st 2o for corn to Buffale, Flour was quiet and unchanged. Whent was active, and 1o lower, closing at $1.17} for August, and $1.16} for September. Corn was nctive, and declined 24@the, closing at 6330 canb, and 66jc for Sep- tember, Onts were active, and 1@2c lower, closing at #8}c for August, and 833e for Oc- tober, Ryo was dull and ensier, at 78¢ for Septomber. Barley was nctive, and 2@t lower, closing nt $1.05 for September, Hogs werae in fair demand and firmer, Sales at &7.60@7.95. Cattlo were dull and wenk. Sheep wefo quiet and unchanged. One hundred dollars in gold would buy #113.12} in greonbacka at the close. A transparent scheme for the manufacture of politicnl capital with a view to re-laction wns consummated yestorday by tho ioard of County Commissioners in adoptingn resolu- tion that Conk County will contract for no mnterials which nre the product of convict Inbor. 'This procecding doubtless bna direct referenca to the stone to be used in the new Court-Tlonse, and simply means that the county will not avail itself of the labor of convict stone-cutters in the Joliet Peniten- tinry to buy its building material in tho clienpest market. 'Tho smwe rule, enrried out by the comumnnity iu general, would shut up the prison workshops, deprive the State of its revenue from that 'source, keep the conviets in vicious idlencss, and im- pose now and needless burdens upon the peo- plo tazed to support penal institutions. Pri- vate citizons do mot allow a silly senti- wentality to provail as ngainst sound business principh-s’. but buy where they ean get the requisite quality for the lowest prico; and what is good senso in nu individual is good sense for Cook Connty. WHEN CITY TAXES ARE COLLECTZED. It was shown in an article in Sunday’s Trrs- uxE that tho grent increase of the outstand- ing linbilities or flonting indeltedness of the city at tho end of each fiscal yenr, since April 1, 1871, was caused by the acts of the Legistature postponing the time for taking judgments for delinquent taxes from March until July of tho next fiseal year, Tor a long time previous to the Great Fire the law au- thorized - the City Government to take judgment and proceed to sell real estate that was delinquent in March, which was the Inst month of tho ecity's fiscal year, Beforo the first day of April (the commencement of the now fiseal yenr) the great bulk of the taxes were alwayx paid into the City Treas- ury, and during the month of April tho re- wainder was all paid in oxcept the small fraction iuvolved in contested and appealed cnses. The result was, that the temporary liabilities of the city wero paid off bofore the beginning of the now fiscal year, and at most there was onlya smnll amount of claimsunpnid. Thus, on the first day of April, 1871, previons to the Fire, thero were only §4314,421 duo, all told, aud within thirty days thereaftor there was probably not o dollar of this amount unpaid. The rulebefora the Fire was to liquidate tho expenditures of each municipal year with the taxes collected with- in shnt yenr. The exception rarely amounted 10 10 por cent of the year's appropriations, and thero wns always mouey enough collect- ed from délinquent tax-paycrs in the first month of the now year, that is, in April, not only to clenr off the unpaid balance, butto provide funds éoough for several months abend, But the Legislaturo that met shortly after the Firo postpoued the time for the tax-sales from March until July, and by this baneful act rendored it : simply impossible for tho City Govermment to collect its revenues within the municipal year.. The postponement was made by tho Legislature as n * rolief measure” to tax-payers who hod suffored by the Fire; but in relioving them it most seriously embarrassed the City Govern- ment. Tho Genera! Assembly gavo tho peo- ple fivo or six months longer in which to pay their taxes; but inso doing it has left the City Government fivo months without money with which to pay its current cxpenses, and has driven it to tho necessity of borrowing monsy on certiticatos of indebtedness to bridge over this interregnum of nearly half a year, ¢ Tho city’ ean no longer collect its taxcs within the municipal year, It must now wait until the middle of the nert municipal year befora an enforced collection can be made. 'Tho T'imes says that it was ‘‘undor ‘rupt and domoralizing tendencies, Mepm's odministration that the floating dobt was increased,” oud odds, by way of peroration ¢ e impartant fact shown by his first fAuance report 1a thie: 4t was the begluning of our unlawful clity debt, Josernt MEDILL, thou art the man who began the ug- Jawful joflation of our city fnduboduess, in wicked wiolation of a constitutioual probibition upon such fn- crease of tho city debt which thou thysalf helped to frame and establish, The jndividual thus nddressed never beforo knew that he enacted the law postponing the timo of the tax-sales from March to July. He most cortainly believed that he opposed the chiango of the law, having written to members urging them not to postpone tho timo for talk- ing judgment ngainst delinquents ; he went to Bpringfield to lobby against tho chango, Lut discovored that it wos utterly im. possible to prevent jt. The pressury for ‘“'relicf” was too great for any ono man or any hundred men to resist. The subscyuent legislation in regard to en- forced colloction by judgwent and sale continued tho timo fixod by the not of 1872, It was jmpossible to induco the Legislature to enuct o restoration of the March tax.sales, s the Cook County delegation did not favor it. Peoplo wero willing enough in 18712 to postpon the time of paying their city taxes §ve months, but they have been quite un. willing ever minco to give back that five mounths to tho City Government ood pay in March . fostend of July. Tho eonsequence is that the City Govern- ment can no longer collect during a municl- pal year the money oppropriated sud ex- pended within thad year, as waa the case befare the Legislature in the winter of 1871'-72 pqstponed the time of tho tax-sales five monthe. Wil the ZVmes pleasa explain how the provious ar presont Mayor s responsible for what it denominates tho + gnlawful city debt reported by the Comp. trolleron the first of Aprilof each year,” when tho law forbids the Municipal Government to enforce tho collection of taxes for nearly” half @ yoar after tho termination of tho municipal year ? % ‘I'he Common Council has ebandoned Bill 900, and called on tho county autliorities to collact the revenuo of the city for thapresont year, 1875, by tho machinery of the general law. Dut this changé, which the Zimes has strenuously advocated, will not prevent the recurrenco of an immense floating debt in the Comptrollex's aunual April foport, for the reagon that the Btate and county tax. sales’do not take placo untll July or Auguat ©of cach yoar, Consequontly, at the end of the olty's munioipal yoar, March 80, it will heva receivad senrcely any of ita rovenue frum the County Collector, but will be in debt for nenrly n wholo year's cxpenditnres. Wil tho Z'imes bo good enough to suggest the remedy for this state of facts, and onlighten the next and fulura Mnyors Low to run the City Government without rovenue, or how to obtain the city's portion of tho tuxes beforo the fixst of April of ench year, which s fiva or six months beforo tho Connty Collector obtains the taxes, It will confer a great boon upon all Mayors and mu- nicipal administrations it it will impart to them this most important picco of informna- tion, THE BHOE ON THE WRONU F0OT, Tho Brooklyn Univn discloses the contents of one page in the history of Duxcay, Sixn- sax & Co. which ought o be very generally known. HithertotheRepublican party has had to suffer very materially from tho collapsing of banks which have been mannged by Ie- publican Directors, or havo been favorable to the Administeation, or which during the War el o loyal position and supplied funds for its vigorous prosecution. When the Freed- moan's Bank went down, aud whon Jay Coore & Co, and Hexny Crews & Co. collapsed, the Democratio press of this conutry im- proved the opportunity, not so much to do- nounce their reckless method of fnanciering, n8 to influence tho public mind agnmst Rtepublienn rule and political financior- ing. 'The wild gambling aud specula- tion, the nccumulation of rotten securitics, the investment in sll sorts of balloon schemes, and the consequent collapses which inevitnbly follow this system of banking, which is only another form of gambling, wero credited to the influence of the Repub- lican party, because the managers of theso bauks Lappened to Lo Republicans or wero loyal during the War, Theso snto papers, however, sinco the failuro of Duncan, Suen- AN & Co., bave been strangely silent. Weo liave not learfied from them that their fall is due to the corrupting and demornlizing effeets of Republicanism. They have omit- | ted to charge tho losses of depositors and customers to the Administration. Thoey preach nono of their customary sermons on tho frauds and corruptions of the Re- publican party,—not even a word on Grontism., ‘The Brooklyn Union ex- plaiug tho renson why they have fniled to take any partivan advantago of this failure, 1t appenrs that the houso of Duxcay, Sten- AN & Co. hns nover had Ropublican procliv- ities sinco tho War, und that it had no Union proelivitics during the War. They woro cot~ ton-speenlators then, as thoy have been since, and their sympnthies wero with cotton, and, this being the direction of their sympnthies, their interests were with the South and with English hostility to the North, for where the treasuro is thero will the heart bo also, They bulled Southern sccurities in Europe, and Dacked blockade-running. They were tho agents of the * Hociety for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge in the Army,” During McCresLraN's command of the Army of the Potomae, they sent down to it issues of the World and the Philadelphin Age by tons, also packnges of tracts and tobacco for freo distri~ bution, the wrappers boing meatly printed with peaco and cotton messages, This Cop- perhead missionary work was carried on to ‘such an oxtent that at last it began to demor- alizo the troops, and the Government wng compelled to step in and stop the nefarious business by a special army order. Thoy not onuly never touched an American bond during the War, but they used their influenco in Europs ogainst them. Thisis the politicos financial record of Duvoay, Buznrarax & Co., and these aro the rensons why tho Domocratic newspapers have failed to proach their customary sermon upon the enormgity of political banking and ita cors At the same timo, it is perfectly consistont to-ask, if the falure of Jay Cooxe & Cb. is to be ered- ited to the Republican party, why should not the failure of DuxcaN, Buesmaxy & Co, bo credited to the Democratio party 2 TMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT, « If thero is ono of the ancicnt legal barbar- isms which is supposed to lave beon more universally nbolished than another, it is that of imprisonment for dobt. And yet here upon the fres soil of linois it is A common thing to arrest and imprison men for dobt. Without reference to tho recent arrest of a well-known citizen, it is time, perhaps, that publio attention should be called to this mat- ter, ‘Tho Constitution of Ilinois provides : Noperson shall be imprisoned for debt unless upon refusal to dellver up his catato for the benofit of his creditors, in such manner agshall ba peesoribod by law, or i cases whers thero 18 strong presumption of fraud, ‘ The number of debtors arrosted In this city and held in prison under process issuing from the courlsis very small. The arrcsts aro mostly made upon process issued by Jus- tices of tho Peaco, and are somewhat remark. able from the fact that they aro mnade on Bat- urday nights, Under the old systom of ap- pointing Justices of the Pepuo, this abuse of law anad of honesty was but one of a score of similar abuses in which the Justices and the Constables lovied oxtortion upon all victims selected by them. Part of the systom at that tize was & body of hangers.on, who gerved in tho capacity of jurors, witnesses, or sfil. davit-makers, as they wore needed. Sinco tho reform in the mode 'of appointing Jus- ticos in this city, and inthereduction of their number, there has been a sensible reform in the practices and in the material juatico ad- ministered. A reform in tho appointment of the Constabulary was unfortunsately not in. cluded, and the Justices’ Courta are still af- flicted with somao of the dishonest scoundrel. ism which was once gonoral in those tri- buaals. It hos beon a custom from time imme- morial for Constables to procure litigation by urging ‘muita when there is no real or imoginary cause of action. Thus, when s person has s real bill or de. mand aguinst a business man or householder for a dollar or two which would be paid on demand, the Constable will urge the presenta-~ tion of & demand in the form of o summons for $20, The summons is read to the de- fondant, or more generally service is bad bya copy loft at his residence. In eithor cao the chances are a hundred to ons that Lo knows nothing, or that he forgets all sbout i, or falls to attond at the time fixed for tria), and of course judgment was ren. derod againt him. Tho judgment is thon al- lowed to rest until after the time fixed by law for an appeal, and then an eseoution is isaued. Demand is made for payment— which s unfortunately too often made as tho cheapest modo of gscape from greator exponse and loss of time, It paymont is not qundo, and the dofendant rofuscs to surren. dor property which may be sold to satisfy tha dumand, the Constable makes the retury, and the plaintiff, or some professional acting for him, is required to make an affidavit charg. ing: 1, $hat be verily belleves the defendaut ling moneys, goods, ete., which ho unjuatly refusen to surrender; or 2, that the defend- ant has concenled or disposed of his property, with a design to defraud bis creditom; and on other altegation the Justico is required to issuo an execution against the body of the defendant. Tho Coustable, armed with this tocument, waits until the next or some sub- aéquont Salurday night, when' ho arresta the defendant aud conveys him to the County Jail. Tho only menns of releaso into pay the jndgment and tho costa. 'The Coustable and plninti then divido the plunder. Weo have given one illustration of the process-by which persous are imprisoned for debt and can only eseape continued imprisonment, but there aro a variety of circumstances under which tho samo result of the nbuse of the forms of Inw is successfully practiced for purponcs of plunder. Tu all actions of tort, and their number ia n large onme, an exceution against tho body {ssues directly ; oud the defendant, who, per. binps, I8 all unconscious that any such nction Iins ever been brought or judgment rendered agninst him, is in like manner gobbled up on Saturdny night and hurried off to jail, where ho must remain uuless he mntisfies tho excon- tion, which, ns a general thing, ho does.’ In other cases theso proceedings nro insti- gated by malice, for purposes of revenge, and to wound the feclings of the person arrested, and to put him to inconvenienco as well as extort money from him. ‘Whild disposed to acquit the present Board of Justices of all responsibility for any direct complicity in such proceedings, we undors stand that one practice of the old system has not been wholly discarded, and that is the issue of blank summonses. 'This is dono in this way: A collector of debts, or aperson having a large number of small debtors, ap- plies to nud oltaing at n tima say twenty- five suminonses, signed by the Justice, Lut in all other respects blank. The collect- or ealls upon a debtor nnd fails to collect tho bill ; be immediately fills up a summons requiring the defendant to appear beforo the Justice nt noon on o day named. 3t 11 A.m. tho defendnut visits the Justice's office, and inquires concerning the case; the Justice refers to his docket and roports that there is no such case, and the defendant Jenves. An Lour later, the summons js returned, and judgment is obtained by default. Twenty dsys later, when the timo for an appeal has passed, sn exccution is issued, and in due timo, on the next convenient Saturday night, the defendant, who perhaps lind an honest defense, is carried to the County Jail, whero he must stay until discharged in due timo upon kabeas corpus by tho Court or pay the money, Wo need not comment on this kind of business, Iy linbility to abuse ought of it- self to provent sny Justico of the Peaco from permitting such o practico, It is radically wrong ; it is an abuse of the forms of law for which there ean be no sufiicient apology, and, if ot a violation of the letter of the law, is certainly u violation of its spirit. 1t may scom odd thet, at this late day,in the one-hundroth yoar'of American freedom, thore should bo a necessity for protesting :ngainst imprisonment for debt, But such is the caso. Tho necessity ia produced not so much from any defect in the law as in the abuses of tho law,—abuses practiced as o general thing for dishonest purposes, to which corrupt oftfeers and equally corrupt suitora -regort, in violation of justico and houesty. The romedy is largely in tho Lands of the Justices, who should investigato all the facts and ba clearly satisfied of the necessity bo. fore issuing any writ to imprison any man foy dobt, especinlly whon that writ is to bo exoouted on Saturday night. WISE WORDD FROM WELSH. Mr, WiLniax Werenm, an ex-membor of the pormanent Commission appointod to provent officinls and unoflicials from committing frouds on the Indians and tho nation, has published another, of his coustio lettors, This one is addressed to Prof. O, C. Mansu, in hearty approval of his courso, ond in cor- responding donuncintion of tho person whom a grent majority of the people of the United 8tates believe to be guilty of certain compliance and probablo participation in the wholesale stealing that hns characterized the mansgement of Indian affairs sitice the In. torior Department got control of the tribos, In ono incisive passage, Mr. WeLsm ang- Iyzes tho difficulties in tho way of persons nppointed by Seeretary Denaxo to investigato Mossrs, Corvauy and Jony Deraxo and the rost of tho * suspeet.” Ho snfu: Secretary Drraxo's Investigating Commissloners, not having the power to compel ko attondance of wit- nessos, can only oxamine auch as are brought to them Dy parties interosted in the prosceution or in tha de- fensa; As no prosecutor Lias ever boen willing to waate Dis timo befora such a Comswinslon, tho wituessss aro almost inyariably those prodiced by persons Intercsts «d §n concealing frauds, The,Commirsioners baving no power ta sdiminiator caths to panish perjurers, if false awearing in such a case bo perjury, or to compel a wituces to toll ull that ho Xnows, or to answer when cross-oxamined sharply, testimony taken under such circumstances ta wsuslly a mere blind, As these ine voutlgations are usuatly Lold §n tho midet of a lawices community, and as a voluntary witneas for the proso- cution 1« usually threatonod and lays Limself open to acharge of malice, fow men of rospectability aro witle ing to voluntear, Buch Comnisloners uwually have no fungls 10 pay the travellng expensos and s por diem allowance for witnesses, but the Riog is liberal to such, 1t the Commissfoners felt authorized to go out sopa- ratoly as detectives thov conld accomplish much good; but thera fs ususlly on the Cammission » Judgeors Inwyer, or somo other exact person, to remind thom that thelr dutios are semi-judicl. No wttorney fs over ciaployed to conduct {ho prosccution, although tho DEra¥0 Commissfonera allow the accussd to'ap- peat aud to have counsel, therefofe the most hoorablo Commifssloners are usually compelled to unite in tha repart *not proven.” This reviow ig {llustrated by soveral apecifio bite of history. In 1873, the plundering at tho Whotstonoe Agency (Srorren Tair's) had been so nnusually gross‘that a Commission was appointed to investigate it. Just before the two Commissioners (Epwarp O. Kewmnrz and Hexny E. Anvosp) reached the Agency, the Agent left for parts unknown, Sodid his only clerk. 8o did every scrap of records, accounts, documents, eto. Under theso cir- cumstances the Commission was unable to do anything more than report ‘“a state of ir. regularity, contusion, and corruption nt this Agency.” ‘It recommended certain strong mensuros. It 1s needless to say that Devaxo pald no heed to the recommendation. Was he to remove A man agaifiat whom complaints were brought, whilo !*the newspapers wero talking about him"? Certalnly not, Drravo suppresssd this report. He Lay & habit of indolging in eup. pressio veri, but takes Xindly to sug. geatio falsi, whenever a tricked or trick. ing Commisslon whitewashes a pal ol the “Ring.” Buch reports are never kuppressed, They are printed (at the expguse of the peo- Ple}, and scattered Lroadcast (at the expense of tho people), and help to keep tho Riug in power (at the expenss of tle people). 3r. Wevan's letter closes with & well-de. served ftribute to the part played by the presa io sxposing the Indian Ring. The lust Commisslon nppointed by Becrvtary Dmxano s hampored in pre- cisely tho samo way o8 tho others, besides being Iargely made up of pevsonal cronies of Drraxo; but, ag Mr. Wersn points out, it will Lo accompanied on its” travels by report- ers, whoso solo mission it s to discover the truth, If the truth, when discovered, should prove that the Secretary of the Interior is the hend of tho Indian Ring, the press of the country would surcly continue its attacks. Under thewe circumstances, would newspaper clamor® in favor of DELANO'S resignation pre- vent tho President from demnuding it ? ——e THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY CABE. Quite refreshing, for the dog-dnys, must have heen, in its way, the interview between 1is Excollency the Governor of Tllinois and Shorilf Nonrmis, of Williamson County, ro- yported in our Sunday dispatehes. Tho Iattor oflicial being at the State Capital, and hoving dedged tho intorview, was sont for by the Governor. Appearing in responso to the summons, Sheriff Nonnts satd, as hnd been re- ported by Tuz Tunue, thet the peoplo of thnt connty had been ** afrald to speak out " in condemmnation of tho vendeltn waged there, *‘for fenr of the assassing” The worthy Sheriff ndded: *'The murderers aro known ; there is no doubt aa to the Buf ficient proof of thoir guilt to haug thom.” Bo mmeh being elicited, tho quostion of catehing tho murdercrs that they might bo hanged, ns they so richly deserve, was noturally mooted. The peouliar feas turo abont these Williamson County wmurders has been, that the murderers were not hanged beeause the Sheriff didn't cnteh them, and no mon in that county dared eatch them. To attetpt it would Lo to *mix up” in the vendotta. Oncmon having beon assnssinated, soveral shot at, aud a number * warned ™ to leave, all within threo weeks past, for having mixed upin it, nobody there now cares to mix in the business. Iut to reeur to tho intorview. Sheriff Nonnts—whase nephew is oua of tho un- cnught murderers who are *‘Lnown” and ngoinst whom there ia proof snflicient to lieng him when canght—declined tho Gov- ornor's tender of troops to aid in the arrests. "Troops, ho said, would do no good—unless they wero the militia of Willinmson County ! "Thero is no militia organization in Willinm- ‘son County. When formed, it would includo tho ablo-bodied Burtmseey, ITENDERSONY, Ceatys, Russtris, and tho others mixed up in the vendetta; sud, of course, thoy would Do just tho peoplo to eateli their murderous kinsfolk and allics, Theroon, the Governor admonished the Sheriff, who bas displayed such notablo in- copacity, cownrdice, and apparent connivance with the assassing, that he, the Sheriff, would bo oxpected to do his whole duly; also that 4§f needed "—it scems Iis Excellency ro- mains in doubt uwpon that point—the wholo power of tho Stato would be placed ot his disposal. With that, tho intorview termi. nated; the Sheriff hod declined tho tender of troops, and the Governor had *admonished " the Sheriff, The Sheriff, whose duty it it to moke the arrests which ho did not make, though the men nre known, aud who declines the tonder of aid to ouablo him to mnke thom, returned to Willinmson Cuunty. The Governor, whose duty under the Constitution it is to *‘tako care that the laws be faithfully exocuted,” and who is nuthorized *to call out tho wmilitary foras of the Btato o execato tho laws,” without further action, having gdmonished * the Sheriff, bade that worthy good morning. Meanwhilo tho next murder in order in Willinmson County will be that of some man who sholl bo overheard whisporing that the assnssine ought to be punished Probably ho will be shot through a window or waylnid in the night. Then probably it will be stated, as is dono in a Springfield dis- pateh of yesterday, that, **Despito the Aowl that is made all over tho Stato, there is no doubt the Governor has done all he can legal. ly do”; and perhnps be will ngain ndmonish the Bheriff of Willinmson County. A striking instanco of the dostruction of capital was furnished yosterday in the auction sale under foreclosuro of the Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis Railrord, a line about 260 miles in length, running through one of the most fertilo and thickly populuted regions in Ilinois. The rosd was built in 188 and 1869, ot an outlay, as represonted by its bonded dobt, of $0,000,000, and it was sold under the hammer at $1,820,000, alittle over 7 por cont of its cost. It is dificult to ac- count for thig enormous shrinkage in valuo, There {8 no chargo of oxtra-bad manngo. ment, nor of any Creditalobilier schemo in tho construction of the road. In spite of its apparent opportunities and advantages for securing o profitablo traflie, the concern nover paid any considerable amount of interest on ity bonds out of its earnings, but continued to sink decper and deeper into arrears, its total debt being something over $11,000,000 in gold ; while the whole property and fran. chiso'were ostimatoed at only about $1,000,000 in tho report of tho Master in Chancery. Tho smount bid yosterday, $1,320,000, was consldered in exeoss’ of the actual value of the read, which was nccepled by tho pur- chasor subjeot to various claims, At thobest that can bo hoped, tho unfortunate bondhold- ers will pever realizo more than 7 por cent on their principal. It is a remarkablo caso of annihilation of value, and one which can ouly be explained upon tho prosumption that the roud, running from noth to south, and having for ita termini Rockford and Bt. Louis, was built yoars beforo it was needed, if, in. doed, such & lne could over bo mado profit- able. TRE BEY. CARLES G, FINNEY, ‘Tho telegraph bringa tho aunouncetsent of the donth of the Rov, Cuanrxs G. FINney, ox- President of Oberhin Collegs, Ohlo, which oo~ curred very suddenly yestordsy morning at hls rosidenco. Mr. Fauvey, up to the timo of hia death, bad been In hia ususl health, tho aud- dounass of Lis death belug occasicned by heart disease. Ho was born in Warren, Comn,, Aug, 20, 1792, and at first intended to pursue the practico of law a4 hia profession, In 1824, how- ever, ho changed bis purpose sad entered the minlstry, commencing his labors s an evangelist, He followed this callicg for eloven years, sod ceoated s revival excliement throughont the United Btates evon wore marked than that which Moopy apd 8axx2Y bave rooently produced io Epgland. In 1835 he cossad his ‘vevival labors and gecoptéd a Professorebip to Oberlin College, and in 1837 becama pastor of the Firat Congre- gations] Ohurchs In the eame place. Healsooon- tinuod to preach in New York and otber places until 1848, when he went to Eoglsnd and re- mained thoro three years, during which time he resumed s old revival work with great success, thus boing the predocessor of our Chlcago evan- gellats. In 1853 ho becawe Ereaident of Oberlln, and romaiued in ghat posttion until 1808, when bae wad succeeded Ly tho-Tlev. J. H. Famnouiro, who now occuplos the chalr. As ao suthor he waq scarcely leas widely kuown than ay an evan- golwt, bis wozks baviog passed through numer- ous editions, Amoug tie moet importaat of themare: * Lestures on Bavivale™ (1833) of which fonrtcon aditlons wern fiuaoed ; ** Lecture ta Prafessing Christians ® (1830) 3 **Rormons on Amportant Bubjects "' (1939) ; and * Loctures on Byatomatic Thoology " (1347 i - Qivo tho IToonlera ctedit for warm hoarts. An incidont . roported from Chill, Mistat County, shows that some of tham desorve it. Mr. CoNNgn, of that neighborhootd, was down with erywipelns in tho feot; his crops woro spolling ; and howay focling torribly bino over the prospect of a hoavy peenniary foxd, which ho wad {u no condition to bear. Onhe dav, whon he was partieninrly do- presged in apirits, hio waa sueprised by tho nolxo of reapers in bia flelds, and on looking out of the window ho snw a dozen of his nelghbots hinding wheatns fast an it was cut, Meantime, their wiven wero preparmg a big dinner, provid- cd by thomsclvos, fu tho kitchon of the farm- house. It dues humanity good to hiear such ato- rles e this. Bofore midnight of that day s heavy rain fell; but the gonerous neighbora had provided for that, too, by puiting the wheat in shoel after tho sun wont dowu. 4 Two atories concotning tha lato Axpnew Jonx- #ON havo beon flatly contradicted by hia rola- tives, The first in that ho was an Atheiat, orat lonat o Doist, 'Lhis roport originated with tho cosrespondont of the New York Hernld and tho Chicago Times, whois said to be a notorious clerleal impostor, and who is thersforo entirely unroliable. M, Jounsoy's family deny that ho waa in any senso an unbeliever; aud to provo Die rolinneo ou God they hiavb published a devout letter writton by him during the cholera season in 1679, In ths lotter, Mr. JouNsox npeaks of Denth ag ** the mero shadow of God's protocting wing.” Another story set aflast ginco tho death of tho ox-Presidont s that ho mot a sovero dis- appolutment iu youth from unroquited lovo. Axonew Jouxsox, Jr., editor of the Greenvillo Intelligencer, denios this report Rlso. Tliero was indeed au unsuccessful tovo affair, but it did not entall *sovero disappointment.” It is & curious subjoct for & son to write about. e et The peach-mnrkat in Boston, Now York, Phila. dclpliia, and Baltimoro is glutted; yeb tha de- sorving peoplo of the West aro living on dried pruves for frult, Why by this unuatoral utato of things maimtnined? About 500,000 able-bodied citizens of Clicago and Cook County would ou- Joy and pay for vome of that glut. Vory ombarrassing It §a for Mr, JEFFEnsoN Davis, no donbt, to have on fnvitation withdeawn aftor it bas boen necepted ; but this is nothiug in comparson with tho eniwoline adventuro after !&n War; simply nothing The Now York Times will refuso to prostrato ftsolf in the duaf boforo tho Liberal Mumbo- Jurabo,—meaning Iteubon E. Fonton and Liy party. Gov, ‘Titdon doos not think the queation of in- flation will be tho mawmn issue in tho Premdentinl canvagr. Jt cannot bo, Lie says, ** whilo the couu- try bas 260,000,000 or £60,000,000 mora maney than suybody can use, borrow, or loan." Mr, Willlam D. IKelley plumply told o reportor st Indisuapolis that he hoped tho Democraty would succeed In Ohio. 3Many of r. Kelley's Tepublican constituents have plumply told him that ho ought in common decency to resign bis seat in Congross, or keop i mouth shut, Brownlow advises tho young men of Tebnes- seoto go to work. ‘ Fow peoplo,” ho says, * fully apprecinto what a curae to our State tho drones aro,” If this vast army of idtors wero pus to work, Mr. Birownlow thinks the people of Tennossto would soon cesso to groan over tho Stato dobt. ® Tho Now York Ierald reporta that Prosident Graut is about propared to yiold to the pressure which has been brought to bear upon Becretary Delavo; and that J. Ruesell Jooes, who has just roturned from the Bolgian misslon, fa likoly to recolve the appointmout. Couot ons for Chicago. Tho Hon. Reverdy Jobnsou has come ont atrongly agninst tho finencial theorica held by hia Democratio brothren in Obio, and ju favor of tiord money. He claimg that Congroes Lias no power, undor existing circumatances, to issuo nora {rredeemable paper monoy, and to force the peoplo to accept it as a legal-tondor. Gov. Cismborlnin's paper in Bouth Carolina ia becoming tao enthusiastic. It eays in a recent lssua: ¥ Tho National Republican organization ocannuot afford to go beforo the country without Qou. Grant—if not aa its afaudsrd-bearor, ot lonst a3 its bratn, muscle, and motivo powor.” Thoro i8 too much dubioty in that phrage—" it not as ita standard-bearer," Long Brauch comes forward 88 a claimant for ono or both of tho I'resldentinl Conventionn noxt year. 'Tho railway officials and botol-keep- ors aro specially notive in furthoring the move- ment; and Philadelphia, if sho cannot liavo tho Convontlons horslf ag a part of the Centonnial, would tika to hava them as near as Long Brauch, in ordor to swell thoattondanco at that mamgpioth oxbibition. - Gov. Tilden's swing aronnd the clrclo seoms to bave done Inm good. He mada eleven spooches on tho last day, stopplug the train at tho large cities along the line of tho New York Central Road {0 alr ils eloquence. By tho way, tho old man seema to havo a good deal of blood in Lim for o paralytic, wbich Eli Porklns says ho fu. But noboty believes Ell Perkios, not oven his omployer, Mr. Dana, The Wasbington Chronicla has manifostly taken a now doparture sloco it bas passed {rom tho control of Bouator arlan, I8 old friends and subsoribbra will doubtless open their oyes wine at finding in its columns an article of uev- oral columns purporting to give au exposure of frauds {n tho marine corps. The Chronicle has not horetofore boan distlugulsbed for itu ser- vicas a8 an uuoarthor of frauds. Tho Pulladelphia Times publishes a lottor from Harrlsburg whaich iy genorally acceptod re a atatomont of the curroncy views of tho Detno. cratio leaders in Ponnaylvania and of Aloxander MecClure, It prodicls that tho platform of the Dormocratio Btate Convention will ** declare for & uniform currency on a upecio basis, but reslat- ing any arbitary efforts to baston resumption at tho coat of the business Interesia of tho coun- try.” Which, of course, is an emauation from the brain of Jack Buusby himself. Following thd error of soveral other papers, Tuge Tripuxs rocently reforred ‘0 & vacaucy ex- iating fn the Fourth Tennessoo Congressional District. As a wmatter of fact, there {4 nova- canoy in that distriot,—Samuel AL, Kito haviog tbeen electeduinca tha death of Mr, Head. Mr, Fito Las himsolf boen seriouslyitl, snfforiug from neu- ralgiso pains in the breast, and it was for a long timo foored that howould not live to take his weat; but hobhas latoly discarded medicfbe and taken to mineral weters, with i happiest 1o sults. Ho confidently balieves that, beforo the opbulng of Congreas, he will be entirely reatored to health. It has baen maid that the result of the election in Nor{h Csrolins waa & surpriso to the poli- ticiana, The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist furnlebes au esplauation which 1a not ontirely reliabie, usge it 18 offered in oxtenustion of & Domocratic raverse: but it may well have a grain of truthin it. Tho Constitutionalist saya: From the commonta wado by tho preay upol the re- sult of the eloction in North Carolius,"*wa conclude thuat fow meu outside of th Btate undorstand tho real charsctor of that peopla. 1t wa su slection bo change the organio law, (o which they ate, sa & ruls, over ope , or st loast spproach & sevolutlon wmoro alowly than a2y other clase in the United States, 'They uat- 1ly rocelYe propositious to wunul old Labits snd ma with suspiciou, and reject inovations of whate Xiud until all the balance of the world bas tried d proved thew, Tha Blate was dlled with Tarios duriug the Revolutionary War, and with Unlon mesn during the lata atrugglo, They suspected the lato movement was w rovolutionary vus, and opposed ite ‘Tho magnsnimity of the Iudependent candi- dato for Cougrose in Oregon Las not beou fully noticed and sppreclated. The situstion In thas Btate was peouliar. Mr. LaDow, Demoorat, was olocted lass fall by » bare plarality. ' The Repuhlican strovgth wes divided betwesn a stralght party candidate and » Graoger, Bince 11 pattios Liavo b sctive [n making proparations to fill thn vac. beon nominated by (bo Nomocrits pondonts nomivated G. W. Whituoy aceopted on tho distinet undoratanding that thy Rapublican Conventlon should rriify the chico, ‘Thin was not dona, Henry Watnor rectiving tim Republichu nomination, Ther upon Whithay withdrow. Ty this action tha S:ato ds eaved tor tha Hepublicaur, i, 8a f8 prob-ible, the Tude. pendents do not biold another ecnvention. Tha vota last yoat wan divided wa folluwd: Dea. crntie, 9,644; Republicau, 9,340 ; Indepondent, 6,350, — PERBONAL, A. \V. Qreoloy, of Unclo 8am’n army. fn & rueat at the almer House. Dirig.~Gon. Crook returned to his hieadq-.aviers in Omaha on tho 12th Inat, Col, Kb, tho editor-in-chi:f of the New Orloans Republican, 18 at the Pt imar Houso, Tho Rov. Dr. Brigas, of Bye-sten, will 1o te Californin somo tine during Baptuobor for g pleavure trip. Col. Flint, Fourth Infavtry, rotnrnel to Fort Dridger, Wyoming, from a brief leavoe of ubinence, on tho 15th inst. An excurslon of about 100 porsons. chiefly | from tha central part of Ohio, urrived yautcriay at tho therman House. Edwin Adame, the popular a tor, and bis frn. ily aro at the Tremont House during (e prosent engagomont at MeVickes's Theaue, Count Arnim’is vot so ill us goneraile ro. portod, §6 han boen improvimg sapldty, aud oy staminn yot to Tast out Priieo Biamar Mies Lillian Cousay bas sigued & contract with Hooluy to play next wewscn in lealing juvenilo busiuess in Chicago snd Fau Franeico, A party of fiftcen of the most prominent citizens of Bloomington weoe ab tho Palumot Houua yestordny, on thelr way to Ureen Lay, Escanabs, aud other fishing 1csorta, All tho Philadelphis papors--oxecpt John VY, Foruey’s Press aud Goorgo W. Childs’ Ledyer— remark that Pennsylvanin lott her most ominen| citizon by the death of Horacu Ihnuey. Misa Minnlo Conway was marncd to Lovy, tho cornot playor, yestorday. o wodding, it e undorstood, will not intorf:ro m any way witk tho dramatis ongagements o/ tho brido, | Tho Hon. J. Rusaell Jones. lute United Statey Ministor at Brussels, aod family arrived I tide citv yostorday mornjug, aud will st once roacen- by their residence, No. 873 West Wasbingtos stroet, y Prof, Loomig, of ¥ala Collage, ban been per foctiug tha genealogy of his family ; atid he hay alrendy colloctod 9,000 names of pergons ‘sl 4 seanded from one meow, Who omigrated'to country 300 yeard ago. R What & commotion A, Blizzard will croate io the United Btatos Sonate if ho wuceseds in his aspirations to Andy Johinson's scat. Thoy wonldu't elcot hiim in lows, but in Yennessco the pooplo don’t know what A, Blizzard {s. Hooley and Campbell hava conriderablo arils. tio backing in their new Brooklyn venture, ‘Phelr company will be froshoned vceasionally with drafts of poopte from Honloy's Chicage Thostre sud Maguire's Esn Franci:co Opers Houso. . Mr. J. 1, MoVicker: last ovoning recaived a telogram from Coscoly the romdonco of Edmin Booth, tho eminent actor, announcing that he biod boen thrown from his carrisgd nnd fatally injurod. Particulars wora imuiediately tolo- Rraphod for, i Mr. Croffat writes to tha Graphic: Prof. 0. V. Liiley, who has won & world-wide reputatior in tho pent-up Utica of Mis:onri bugs, 1 & dash. ing young man, 8till under 40, with black bair, sharp ; features, lovely mubtache, aod noso ke Julius Cicanr's, T. M, T, Hunter, of Virziot, is ono of those honest mon whom wo read of in books, but sel- dom maet {n'real life. Ha iy acting Gtate Treas- urer ou » salpry of 2,000 por yoor, and ho do- natea the larger portlon of this sum to the pay ment of his creditora. At tho Boston Thoeatro, a foww ovenings sinco, whon Father Barbaud wai offering Old Fadil 1,000 francs to sond Fanchon nway, and the old 1ady replied, **It is not uonzh,” & young gen- tloman in the audionce, whe has ovidently played +gaacho Podro," romarked sotto voco to a come ponfon: * Pitely 1t yourselt, then I* Xing Kalaknus held & meoting at his palace in Honolalu last maptl, at which o addroescd the soldiors, band-boys, and othors cwployed on the promiscs, and urged thim to bocome tom persnco mon. 1o sahd bo bid eoon the ovil of- focts of tho use of intoxwest'ng liquors, mow oo the incronse, and deslred to rea it checled, thal his pooplo might becomo temporate, iudustrious, and prosperous, Tt ia & helnous sin for a Cetlolic gentleman to love & P'rotestant woman, i2 Aichbislipp Puscell may ba accopted a8 authority. At tho funoral of a young man in Eaton, 0., recoatly, thy Aven- bishop eaid substantially that the decearod fell in love (with o Protestant lady, w violatlou of tho ralos of tho Church, and then sidud, “avd now whero a his soul #” and tuut *lischild to now bolny ralsod & herotle.” The party of gontlomon ard Jadles from thy iron and coal regions of Panniylvania who were atoppiug at tho Gardoer Iousy visitad the dif- ferent parts of tho city yustarday, nud ex pressed thomsolves Lighly plaasod, and wero much surpnsed % tha roouporatwve atisugih of the city, They loavo thls morniug for Owalis, on routo to Calitornia and the Pasfile slepe whero thoy Intend spending three ur four months, Oborly, of tho Cairo Bulletin, » great light lo Bouthorn Illuols, is tho corrcspoudent in thel section of tho Chicago Times, Ilg rocoutly touched up the Willismsan County vaudeltn for tho Times, aud then copted tho articio in bns own paper with the following uaive uota of com- mondstion: * We publish thii morniug e very full history of the Wiltlumson County veudetts, It {s woll writtoy, and will be fou:id by ti:o readet ta be,intoresting from bogiuning to snd.” It may bo doubted whether Bartois ia passion. ately fond of bables. "The other morniug. whila he was standing ou the plazza in tho midst of & group of his boou companions, Nolle cauia waltziug out with the national grandeluld in het arms, and, planting it playfully uron iy chouls der, oxclaimed ; * Oh, ain't it o durling, Agy ¥ “Wall," returned Algy with thq wortificd oir of & man who had boen tsken advautaga of, **Welly its mother ls,"—Hrookiyn Argus. MOTEL AUDIVALS, Sherman HousemA, J, Knr, Boaton Col, ¢! K, Al len, siduoy, Nob,; J, L Wilte, Evanaville; Cul, C, I White, Loujavitle; O, I Crossotto, Nuw Yu A Cawypbell, LaBallds J. U, Howa, Tuwa; W, D, Conle McQregor; Harvoy Tilden, Oloveland} Jimws Abe i L. Wnghit, Oblo; 1, U, Nuwila, New on,” Detrolt; daines Muinridy Loutsy: Lremont Houso—La A, Olsgip, Mi: iy J. 8, Waterman, Bycswore; B, L, Hotal boit, Alban Ot 1an, Helelisy Mou, ~ Ter,i @ A ‘Douman, Low Yorki Johu P, Flaitz Detrolt; J. 4. Mack ailluw, Titteburg ; Johu Bol pion, Now' York: Oran Ott, beorls : B, H. Richardy, Detrof Day: G, iickon, Now York....J Irkwe 0 Hu or 3 . A, H.F, l.lchluhy, B Looia s D. Jutry Toles, 81, Louta; Y. 8, i Gustave Lovi, Bostou; O. uLuque e M, Humrick, idelpns , Fhflsdelphty "Thomas Ewing, Oblo; ¢ i D, J, McCaun, Nebraala; 3. ¥+ B, 3. Kratt, Bulfato; Jacou il 88, Louls ; 0. Rocker, Hoston { G, M. Darber, Vicer burg; 3, O, Femin, New Yorks Wildws Woufy New 'York; @, O, Bymes, Golorado,....( Paciflo—b, i ¥, Q, letgh, 8t. Louls; ik Hon. doo ull. e i , Kannas b Qe Chierics Hone rib; O, Ourtin, Plitabir Tustis, L MacGorthy, Now ‘Orleans, 1), & Crouch, Toxss; Frank D. Bbaw, New York: U, fo Richurda, Tox. ... (ard T Hon, A, 11, Norrison, 8l J Blouk City, 1a. Wikl D, J. D, Taylor, Clmhrh(llun. 0.; U duaiou 04 oo, d. by T e Hou, y! sios awd wife, Biaton ; Miss Mami ‘Mise Jasule ¥, MRty ety