Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 25, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATES OF STTECTIPTICN (FATADLE I ADTANCE), Poxtnae Prepald nt thia Omee. 2,00 | Weekly. 1 105 SRt 1590 :;;Ecfl,»{;l ot 'fl.i,’:; opio £ LR DA a.00l Parta of a year at the ssme rate, WAKTED—One Active agent in each town and viilsge. Rpecial arrangements maie with such, Spocimen coplen sent fren, To yresent delsy and mistakes, bo snre and give Toat-Oftico addrars in fall, {ncluding Stateand County, Remittancen may be made efther by draft, exnrens, Fost-Oftics order, or In regintered lotters, at our risk, TRRAS TO CITY SUDACRIDKAA, Datly, deitvered, Bunday excerted, 23 cents per week, Drily, delivered, Bundsy fucluded, 30 centa por weck, Addreen THE TRIBGNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn at., Cialcago, TIl, TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. -~ ASTIDRERS THEATIE=Madiran street, between Dearborn and State. Eugagement of Edwin Adams, ¢ Clancarty,” ADELPHI THEATR ouroo, * Tha Day o eathorn stroet, corner " Afternoon and evening, CHICAGO THEATRE~Clark sirest, Latwoen Ran- dolyh and Lake, ** Oid Heads nod Young Hearta,” TOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph strert, bLetween Ciarx snd LaSelie, Fngagement of Johnm Dilion, “The Lancashire Lass,” “Afternoon and evening, [ TSOCIETY MEETINGS. HRBPERIA LODGT N0, 411, A, T & A, M.—~Ttegu- Iar communiration this (Wednesday) avening, Aug. 23, at Msonie Templo,_car, Randolph and_Halsted:sts, THIND DEGREE. Viaitinghrethren cordfally invited: 1, BRENAN, W, AL BUSINESS NOTICES. IT MAY ARRM RIDICULOUS TO OCFF Adential counrol to_the fading throngh the publ hut whan wo rocommeRd tusm 1o ush ** Latid's Hnom ol that If oue adrice phoct hating followed will ba 80 wxjuisitely UWoe t nil fhs world will bollove TUta. ‘Wednosday Morning, August 35, 1878, Greonbacks at the New York Gold Ex- change yesterdey opened and closed nt 834, with parchosers in tho meantime at 88} and $8%. * The importa into the United States for the first seven months of the present year wero $35,032,110 less than for thoe same period in 1874, while the exports were §i1,101,404 less than for the corresponding period last year. . A singnlar epidemic has broken out among farm-stock in England, known as the foot- and-mouth disease. ‘Twelve thousand ani- mals are down with the distemper in Dorsot- shire nlone, and the diseaso is rapidly spread- ing. The officers of two American war-vesscls at Tripoli had a disagreenble experience in de- manding satisfaction for an insult offered to the Amorican Consul. Thoy were hooted through the streots by a disorderly rabblo, and for this the Tripoli Government mado duo apology, but they were unsuceessful in necommplishing tho primary object of their . mission. Tho insult to the Consul remains unsatisfied, and the American war-vessols re- main at Tripoli. Privato business will defer the commence- mont of operations by the new Cnstom-House Commission until Sept. 3, on which date the members will rendezvous in Chicngo, organ- ize, ond proceed to their lnbors. The scope aod charncter of their investigations are sot forth in Secretary Bristow's lotter of in. structions, which nuthorizes the Commission to reccive and duly consider such outside tes- timony or information as shall be available, Local architocts and building experta will thus bo able to assist the Commission in ar- «iving at conclusions both just and accurate, — Officinl roturns of tho censna of Wisconsin have now beon received from all the countiea ; of the State, and foot up a total population of 1,236,090, which is an increaso of 182,020, rhich is 174 por cont In five years,—a very handsome increaso. Thero hna beon o protty close raco between Iows, ‘Wisconsin, and Michigan in population for a number of yeors. It looks as if Wisconsin was drawing abesd of her competitors. Bhe waa tho lightest of tho three in 1870, but may lend them in 1880 if she keops up tho presont rate of growth, ¢ —— Jndgo Drcxey, Corporation Counsel, has rendered to Comptroller Taves an opinion aa to the lawful authority of the City Collector to levy upon the personal property of owne ers of ronl cstate in order to enforce the pay- ment of delinquent taxes, The opinion is to the offact that such anthority ia unquestion. ably vested by law in tho Colloctor, the satat- ute exprossly declaring that oity taxes shall bo a lien upon any property, real or personal, belonging to tha delinquent, and such prop- certy may bo seized by the Collector and sold to discharge unpaid taxes, The Comptroller had contemplated a levy upon the personal property of partios who refuse to pay their | taxes of 1874 in consequencodt the failure of the city to obtain judgment in the County Court, and the opinion of Judge Dicrey was requasted for tho purpose of determining the legality of such a proceedin Our own conntry is not alone in ita afic. tion from the grasshopper plague. A Rou. maninn correspondent of the London Times, writing from Galatz on Aug. 1, describes o swarm of locusts which he bhad witneased that day that was from 3 to 4 miles wide, 16 miles long, and was abont five hours in passing, The correspondent mays: * All over this part of the country lately all the horses in the village Lave been kept saddled, and tho instant the locusts aro reported in the zeighborhiood all the peoplo turn out and gallop after them, andraiso an awful din with pots and paus, and so on, to provent them from alighting. If onco the flock alight it i 83c cash, and 77}@78 for September. Bar- ley was netive, and closed firm at $1.03}@ 101 for September. Hogs were firmer all around, and 10¢ higher for extra heavy, Snles were chiefly al $7.75@8.00. Cattle wero quict and wenk, except for choice. Sheep were netive and easy. On Saturday evening Inst there was in stora in this eity 964,995 bu whent, 2,557,840 bu corn, 226,486 bu onts, 16,817 bn rye, and 0,433 ba barley. One hundred dollam in gold would buy 113,25 in greenbacks at the clos The recent edict frome Rome addreesed to the German Bishops, giving them permission to obey that provision of he Farck law reln. tive to the control of church property by congregations, and by which many * Ohl Catholies” havo. gained possession of their churches, has recontly been brought to a practical test in Italy, nuder the very shadow of the Vatican—in other words, it is a chicken como home to roost, The majority of the members of n congregation elected an Old Cntholic ns pnstor. 'The minority, however, backed by the Bishop, demanded that the her- ctioshould step down and out, and appealed to thoe Conrt. The Conrt dccided against themn on the ground that freedom of worship nnd conseienco was guaranteed to all citizons by the Italian Coustitution, slthongh the canon law of the decrees of the Council of 'Trent were upon the side of tho minority. So the Old Catholic hold his position, and the minority had to submit to the will of the majority. Armed with this decision of the Italinn Courts and the assurances of the Popo to the German Bishops, the Italinn congre- gntions hereafter will enjoy o larger degreo of frecdom in managing their owa affairs than they have over had before, BENATOR M'DONALD AND THE DEMOCRAT- 1C POLICY. Senator McDovaLp, of Indiana, is in Ohio, ealled thero to reply to and if possible re- move tho impressions made by the recent specch of Senator Monrtoy. It hins been sup- posed by the Ohio and Indiann Democracy that McDoNarp is tho ngent appointed by Providence to roply to and refute Senator Montoy, and the Democrats always nppeal to Lim for that purposo. Senator Monrox's argument that so dam- aged the Democratic inflation cause in Obio was to the effect that tho Democrats never id and do not now recognizo or admit that Congress had any legal authority to maka greenbacks logal-teuder in payment of debts. That their demaud for the issuo of. four or five hundred millions of additionnl legal-tender greenbacks was coupled with & demnnd for the abolition of all the National Banks. Thatthe demand fora now issuo of legal-tenders is mnde with a knowledgo that the Supremo Court will de- claro them not to bo a legal-tonder; that, under theso circumstnnces, the result will be no legal-tender, no National Bank notes, —consequently no cutrency, giving free scope and liberty to the unlimited creation of State banks and an unlimited issue of State bnnk notes. That this is the ultimate end sought by the Democratio leaders,—tha re- establishment of the old State bank systems a3 on integral part of the Democratic doo- trino of State rights and State sovereignty. This wns Morton's charge, which he enforced by facts and arguments of the most con- vineing kind, Now, how did Senator McDoNALp answer these damaging accusations? e attacked Gov. Montoy's consistency, paraded his votes, abused tho legislation of Congress,—all of which amouated to nothing. But Senator McDovarp declared that, notwithstanding tho decision of the Snpreme Court, ho did not beliove and nover could admit that Con- gress had any power to make Tressury notes & legnal-tender in paymont of privato dobts; that Congress might authorize the issue of Treagury uotes, leaving the public to take them or not. Ho was, az a Democrat, op- posed to tho creation of any banking systemn by the Goneral Government, and would in- insist upon their abolition. He did not say anything about the wild-cat State banks, bnt, a8 8 Democrat and & Sonator, he wonld de- clare greonbacks void as legal-tenders, and prohibitany National Banks. Haviog done this, Mr. McDoxarp would leave the country with- out Any paper currency at all. What would ba the consoquenco ? Thero being no logal- tenders, no National Bank notes, the creation of State banks would be an imperative nocas- sity, Instend of nuniform system of National Danks issuing notes, thera will be thirty.oight different systoms of State banks. We will have, a3 before the War, rotten banks in this Stato located at Thebes, Bparts, Palestine, Dog-Toath, Wild Boar, Opossum Creek, and overy romoto crogs-rond and blacksmith-shop in Illinois. So with all the other States, Thirty-oight States, ench with a different sys tem, will pour forth its tide of bank-notes ; the value of tho notes of each bank will differ from that of tho notes of all other banks, and the notes issued in one State will not cir- culats in any other Stato, and overy time a man leaves homo he will have to sell his money at a discount every time he crosses a State line. It will bo seon, thereforo, that Senator Mo. Doxarp confirms to a remarkable extent tho declaration of Senator MonTon as to the pur. poses and aims of tho Democratio party on the subject of the currency. Tho clamor about more greenbacks is o fraud ; there is not n Domocratio statesman who does not know that thero is not a responsible Conrt in the United States that would not promptly de- By the powerof Congress at this time to make now lssues of Trensury notos a legal-tender, Thero is hardly a Democratic lawyer in the country who does not bellove with Senator McDoxarp that the present green. bucks aro not n legaltender, but nre in violation of tho Constitution, The talk, therefore, of issuing more greenbacks is 8 mere mask in order to offect the abolition of the Nationn! Bauks—to make room for the restorntion of tho red-dog and wild-cat State- all up ; but by this means they manage to frighten them from alighiting, and cause them to move on elsewhero.* I'his is o remedy Zor grasshoppers our Weslorn farmors have uever tried. — The Chicago produce markets were irrogu. lar yeatorday, Mess pork was.moderately nct- ivo and 160 per brl lower, closing at 320,70 cash, and §20.72§@20,75 for October, Lard wag quiet, and deolined Go per 100 Ibs, clos- ing ot $13.20 cash, and $18.92}@13.35 for October, Meuta wers in moderateroquest and steadier,at 8}oforshoulders, 1170 forshort rib, aud 120 for short clears, * Highwines wero quiet and steady, at $1.10) per gallon, Lake freights were dull, and quoted at 2 for corn to Buffalo, Flour was quiet and unchanged. ‘Wheut was more active, and 2} highor, clos. ing at $1.16} cash and $1.16} sellor Septem. ber. Corn was rather more active, and weak eurly, closing jo lower, ot 6740 cash, and (8o for Boptember. Oats were activo and easier, closing firm at 400 cash, and 80ja for Sep- { tpmbae, Lve was aulet and frregular, st 830 bank currency of the ante-War days. They want ‘“‘cheap money ™ and plenty of it by croating on irresponsible bank at every cross- rond, not for banking purposes, Lut to {ssue notes. ‘Whatever doubt thera was of that fuot, this was the true purpose of the Demo- oratio party. Whatever idea there may Lave existed that Benator MonTox hiad exaggerated or misunderstood the Democracy hes been removed by Senator McDoxaLD, wha, follow- ing, os he said, the impulses of his Demo. cratio ednoation, frankly declarod greenbacka to be unconstitutional as legal-tonders, and National Banks notes impolitio, leaving the country no other resource than a roturn to tho old State bank wystem. It now appears that tho mission of Mon- siguora Itoncerrr, who was sont to this country with the berotta to Cardioal Mo- iLoskCY, was not altogether satisfactory to that individual or to'the Church authunties in Romo. Ho had just sent in a report to the Pontifical Searstary of State and to thu Cone axeuation of the Propogands which L ) per- ‘THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY AUGUST 23, 1875. Ilis first complaint is, that during his mission to America ho roceived numorous requests from the Bishops for special facultics which they considered indis- pensablo for their dioceses, but which the Curin Romana, since thoe promulgation of tho dogma of iufallibility, has decided ngainst conceding,—a fact of which there behind. the-times Bishops did not seem to b awaro, His next complaint is a very touching ono. In New York, ho snys, ho was received with grent deference, but at the same time with n considerable show of disagreeable democratic equality, Monsignoro Roncerrt in evidently bard to plense. Ordinary men would hnve been well satisfied with ocenpy- ing tho attention of the whole community and all the available spaca in the nowspapars for a week, even eclipsing Brrcnen, and ‘tiuroN, aud Mourrox for the time being. Hin last complaint is of a financinl sort. 1o says: *“ Altogethor, the offerings to the obolo of St. Peter were inconsiderable, not oxceed- ing n total of much more than 160,000 francs, or £10,000,—n fir smaller sum than was an- ticipated.” Tt is usunlly considered a mark of ill breeding for a guest to go home and nbuso the lost, and Mensignoro Roxcerrt docs not appear to be an cxception to the rule. The enstigation of the faithful was probably deserved. Thirty thousand dollars theso times are not to bo flonted. 3ost peo- ple will think the price paid by the New Yorkers for ared hat quite high enougl,— more, in fact, than it is wort THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN NOVEMBER, 0ld Mr. StoreY hes now on hand the job of dictating to the several Judges of tho Sn- preme Court how thay shall decide in several casies beforo them, and especially in the ap- penl by the Mayor and Common Council of Chicago from the judgment of ouster ren- dered in tho recont quo.carrants case. Old Stoncy undertakes to define not only what the law is, nud what the Supremo Court Judges should do, but netually instructs them asto the logal effcct and operation of auy jndgment they may render. Ilaving instruct- od and dictated to the Courts what judgment they should render, tho old person informs the peoplo of this city what they shall and shall not do in the matter of holding an clection this fall. Tho old gentleman is considerably befogged, and hislegal defini- tions and jixlgments are the laughing stock even of the wholly unversed in legal techni- calitics. Tho old man bas taken tho notion that he bosses this city, and ho sccks to im- press upon all people, and especially the Judges of thie courts, that they must decide a3 bodictates, or ho will force them to leavo tho Bench ; that he will let his blackguards loose upon them, until, to escape annihila- tion, they will seck obscurity, Still, wo do not know of anybody, Judge orany other porson, who has resigned offico or left the city or Stato to avoid the blackguardism of the old man and his paper. The Iatest proclamation issued by the old man is that thero shall bo no election for mu- nicipal officers in November next under the charter in force np to the so-called election last spring. Old Mr. Sromey lays it down that, at the special clection last spring, the' chaorter of 1872 was adopted; that, though two Judges of this district have united in opinion that there was no legal election held in April last, and o judgment of ouster hns been rondered, that, becauss an spponl has been taken, that judgment has no forco until confirmed by tho SBupreme Court. There- fore, any clection held under the old charter prior to the decision by the Supreme Court would be invalid, even if the SBupreme Court should sustain tho judgment of ouster. In all of this old Mr, Sroncy mnkes himself ridiculous; exchpt as a matter of nattompted dictation to the courts and to the peaple, it is entirely out of the old gontlemnan’s line, which lics in quito anothor dircetion, The fact is, the judgmoent of ouster tnkes effect from tho date of its ontry. The appeal simply snsponds its execution until the Su- promo Court can hear and determine the np- peal. If the Supreme Court overrule the judgment, that sottles the matter in ono way. If tho Supreme Court affirm the judgment, the eppeal is dismissed, and the judgment of onster stands of the date it was originally en- tered by Judge Farwern of the Criminal Conrt., In caso the Supreme Court shall, therofore, not render a decision upon the appeal before the time fixed for the election of municipal officers in November by tho old charter, that charter boing in fact the adjudged chartor of tho city, an election thereunder would not only be a wize precaution, but an absoluto legal necessity and duty, which citizens of all parties will readily recognize and obey, dos~ pite old Mr, Sronxr's commands to the con- trary. In the menntime, the case will bo heard in the Suprema Court, and we have no question that tho very respectable gentlomen who compose that Court will render such judg- ment 04 the law and facts justify, wholly in- dependent of the instructions of old Mr, Broney, and entirely ungoverned by any of hie thrents of what ho shall do unto thom jointly and severally in case tho judgment bo different from what ho has orderod. The Stato Auditor of Ilinois complains that injustice has been done him in editorial comments in this paper on the Statw Revenue law. Wa wish todo him no injustice, Ha disclaims all knowledgo of the recent opinion of the Attorney-Goneral prior to its publica- tion, and wo therofore withdraw anything wo have said connecting him therewith, ‘The Auditor further declares that the state- ment that the Revenue law of 1872 was the production substantially of the Auditor’s office ia a mistake, and that the statement that the portion of the law taxing capital stock was a ' pot scheme of the Auditor's office” is withont fonndation in fact, He further denies with cmphasis that the Btato Revenue law, with its provisions taxing eapi. tal atock, was intended by the Auditor's office as an auxiliary to the schemo to make the State at large pay the local debts of the counties and towns which had voted bonds to wild-cat railronds ; such an intimation he re- pola s an injustice. In anawer to thess complainta we must re. mind the Auditor that newapapers must reach conclusions by facts, In theso statements the Auditor's office may have been treated :n]uldy. es the Auditor assurcs us it has ecn, But the Auditor's office has hind, ever since the Introduction iuto the Legislature of 1872, all the credit and glory of the Revenue law of 1872, Tho late Mr. Bravpew, then chief deputy in the Auditor's office, was credited with the paternity of that law, and capecially of the capital atock clauses thercof. The bill waas criticisod at the tine a8 & production of the Auditor's office, and we nover heard that faot questioned until now, when Gen, Lip. PINCOTT nasured us it wasa mistako,—an abaoe luto injustice to him and to his office, With regard to the Revenus law and os; idal stock tazation belng used asan auxillary the tax-grabbing law of 1869, we only judged hy the resuita, Prior to tho passage of the Tteveuno law of 1872, tho Stata assessment for taxntion purposes averaged £500,000,000 for a munber of years. In 1872 it was £310,~ 000,000. Under these nsaessments the yield under the tax.grabbing law was very slight,— 70 slight a4 to atiract no special attention to tho robbery. Tho Auditor, however, {ssued a cirenlar to Assensors commanding them to incrense their nsressmenta to full cash value,—the law of 1872 being, in this respect, no more exacting tlon the provious law. Whatevor was the purpose of this cireulnr, the effect of it was to increase tho total assessment for 1873 from £510,000,000 to nearly $1,200,000,000, ex. clusive of the capital stock, which was mearly $90,000,000. This in- crenso in tho asscasment mnecossitated o Iarga incrense in the rate of taxation upon the whole State to make good the deficiency of nearly a million of dollars taken under the grab Iaw, Under this impression we con- neeted tho new Revenue law, the cirenlar from the Auditor's office, the enormously-in. creased nssessment, the large fund of State money applied to Jocal debts, the increased taxation to supply the deficiency, ns facts warrnnting tha assumption that the new Rev- enue law, with its provisions for taxing cor- tain property several tires, was used, if not intonded, ns an auxiliary to the tax-grabbing law of 152, We are astonished to know now that in all this the Auditor's office had no such purpose or intention, as wo are also glad to know that the samo office isin no wisio a party to the romarkablo intorpretation placed on the amendment made at the last session of the Legislature to tho Rivenue law in the exomption of certain classes of corporations from the tax on capital stock, ANOTHER SUBSIDY COLLAP3E. Another balloon has collapsed—a very large, a very showy, and very costly balloon, built by contractors with Government help— n balloon built not to navignte the nir but the sea, and intonded to carry large numbers of pnssengers nnd vast mnounts of property. Somewhat over & year ngo, the steamship City of Peking, built for the Pacific Mail Steamslip Company, wns launched from the ship-yard at Chester, Pa., with a grander flourish of trumpets than ever yet heralded the christening of an ocean stesmer or any other kind of asteamer. Wo wero informed that sho was n floating pnlace, although it s since turned out that sho is about ns fit for flonting ns an actual palace would be, Wo wore informed that sbe was the longost, tho strongest, and the most gorgeous craft that that over **walked the waters like a thing of lifo.” For months sho made trips in New York harbor, and all the politicinns and lobbyists, the soldiers, and scholars, and poets mado oxcursions in her, and feasted upou City of Peking viands and drauk City of Toking champagne, under the effects of which they waxed eloquent upon the glorios of the City of Peking, 'I'ho politicians mnde long specches und tho poots wrote long poems in her honor. And at lnst people como to beliove that nover such a vessel sniled the water since CreoraTRA's barge, with its perfumed purple sails and silver onrs, ‘‘which to tho tima of flutes kopt stroke,” wont sweeping down the Nile, They paid glowing tributes to the enterprise of tho Company whick could order such floating palaces; to the builders who could build thom; and to the great and good paternal Goveroment which allowed all con. cerned to dip their hands into the National Trensury and take out what they wanted for tho construction and ndornment of ¢he City of Peking, Bat at last in the natural course of business it beenme necéssary that the City of Poking should make an ocean trip, for sha could not always bo dovoted to holidny junketing in the harbor of New York. BShe went to San Francisco and had to Le hauled up for ropairs. Tho repairs made, she went to Chinn, gnd without encountering any so- rious wenther was in such a vicketty condi- tion that no insurance could be obtained on her for the return trip, and she wos not al- lowed to carry any passengers. Divino Providenco and tho weather being favorable, ' she got back to Ban Francisco and underwent eareful in- vestigation, What was the condition of tho gorgoous flonting palaco? ‘Threo thousand rivets found to be so loose, fome of them having beon worn down from one inch to flve-cighths of anlinch in dismeter, that they had to be drawn out! The cement in her waterways oracked! Tho joimer work started, and the doors hanging in all direc- tiona! ‘' For over 100 fect,” says tho San Froncisco Chronicle, ‘‘amidships the frosh rust running down from her rivets showed conclusively that she is weak, and, when laboring at ses, working her rivets and ad- mitting tho water”! The onkum showing through the planks of the steerago and main deck! We quoto still further from the Chronicle On tho outslde hnndreds of rivata abavo the light water.line can e discovered which have moved, and even some of the riveta put in while on the dry-dock, in February last, will have to be taken ont, which goes’ togrove that she is atlll working, Instead of putting 400 tons of ballast in her hiold, as she hiad when arriv- Iug ere, the same welght of iron should kave besn put into the hull, Thae vessel, aithough of enormous fongth, Lex no double shcer strake, Mar decks, fu- stosd of beimg plated the entire longth and Lreadth with l-inch iron, are ouly diagonally strapped, the beams are Ladly fitied to the frames, but worat of all, tho greater number of Ler rivot-holcs through this sxin and butt strave are balf blind, And this is what is left of tho floating pal- oo, the City of Peking; and the City of To- kio, her companion, is sald to ba but litile bettor off,—both built by the samo contract- ors, both built in the same manner, both constructed in Pennsylvania of highly-pro- tected American iron, for which tho Ameri- can people wore taxed millions of dollars, as o unsnswerablo argument againat the oppo- nents of high-tariff robbery; both of them built to show that vessels could be construot- cd of protected iron and successfully contest English superiority on the high sess ; both of them going to pieces; neither of them fit to crosa the ocean., . The City of Peking wns aubsidy steamers built by a ring, Credit Mobilier fashion, upon money furnished—or expected to be supplied —by the Governmont, and only adds ono more instance to the long catalogue of mel- ancholy collapses of subsidy schemes in rail- road a5 woll as steamship construction. It only adduces ono moro proof that where there is o subsidy thero will be shoddy railroads and shoddy steamships; dishonest contractors and dishionest companiea and rings; money filched and squandered ; swin. “4lling, gross and infamous; commercial dis- honesty of the most flagrant description; a careloasnoss as to tho lives of passengers ‘which amounts to coustructive murder. Every ovil of subaidy §8 summed up in the subsl. dizod, high-tavil protected City of Peking and the Oity of Tokio,, With their worn and rusting rivets, thelr guping seams, their stralnlig pldoka and Sdwed plates, thay rep~ resent the very essence of high-tariff robbory, of subsidy steals, of comnercinl dishonesty. THE NEW CUSTOM-HOUSE COMMISSION, Ihero are itlieations of an entire chango of baso in tho trestment of tho Chicago Custom.Ilouse by the Administration at Washington. The recent developments in regnard to this building completely refuta tho slanders thnt have been put upon Becrotary Bristow by certain nowspapers, in which ho has boen ropresented as treating tha report of the local architects with contempt, and ns being fully committed to young Mr. Porren's reckless ambition to bnild a Custom-Touso of his own with Tenncsses or Maino stone. The fnet that Gen, Touyan, who was the new lacal Superintendent appointed by Mr. Yor- TER, has been relieved from duty Liore, shows a desire on the part of the Sccretary of the ‘Treasury that the new Commission sball not meet with any prejudicinl influence in favor of tho position to which he has heen nl- leged to bo committed. The reliof must be accoptable to Gen. Houwaw, as he Lns been an ardent Porrem manm, and hay been lmplicated in tho desiro and effort Lo have the present walls demolished and a now building of diferentmaterial ercct. el. Wohave no doubt Gen, Moraaxn has been hionest enough in this belief, but it is better that tho new Commission should be loft entirely free to cxamine for themselves. There scems to be every renson why the scloction of tho new Commission should be satisfactory to tha Chicago public. It was evidently crented as nsort of arbitratibn be- tween the first Comumission and the local architects, whosa reporta were totally at vari- ance. It is compdsed of a larger number of persons than the first Government Comunis- gion, and there is no reason at present to doubt either the capability or fairness of the gontlomen solected. They come from diffor- ent sections of the country, nro either eivil engincers, nrchitects, or practical builders, and are ropresentod to be men of good stand- ing in their respectivo homes. The only eriti- eism wo are inclined to make wpon tho formn- tion of the Commission ig that it would have boen fairer to Chicngo, and on the whole better for the public interests, if two of the soven men wero residents of this city, A large pdrt of the differenco of opinion in re- gard to the presont walls arises frotm a differ. ent estimnte of the sustnining capncity of Chiengo sub-soil. Herein the nctual experi- once of Chicago architocts and engineors is of infinitely more valuo than all the abstract theorics that an assembly of strangers, how- ever scientific, could suggest. This defect in the Commission may be supplied, however, it they tako ample testimony from Chicago experts, Wo prosuma that such is thoir pur- pose. Tlie Commission will be able to decide to the entire satisfaction of the Govornment and the publio those points of difference be- tween the other two Investigoting Commit- tees where there should have been no differ- ence. Thus they will determine whether the Government Commission wna right in estimating & pressure of six tons to the square foot, or the local archi- tects right in estimnting a pressure of considerably less than throo tons. Their scparato and independent tosts will also serve as n standard by which tho other tests mny Do mensured. With the oxperience of those that have gone before, and a disposition to do nothing but what is for tho public inter- est, the finding of tho now Commission will probably suggest o final And satisfactory dis- position of tho controversy. There is one phase of the matter which they should keep constantly in mind, to wit.: The Public Treasury is not in o condition to sacrifico moro than $1,500,000 on account of any merg discolorntion of stone, or scaling of tho sur- faco, which may be romedied ; nud the people of Chieago decidedly prefer a Custam-House that may bo less beautiful to the eye than to wait for years and spend an additional $1,600,000 in order to sccure one more artistic and finished. It is possible that we mny have to suffer some dofects from tho carolessmess of the Muveerr administration; there is no reck- lessness or dishonesty in this world without its penaltics, But the demolition of the present walls and the building of another Custom-House from the beginning can oxnly be justified by demonstration that the pros. ent building will be unsafe if completod on the prosent foundations. If this be not shown, then the work should be recommenced at once and the dofects remodiod as best they may be under the circumstances. THE ABSBTRACT JOB. It now appears that there was more renson for calling Mr. Prurzen's effort to sell a sot of sbstract-books to the county a ‘job” than we' supposed at the time we so named it. Mr, Prurzen, it appears, has beon meroly an sgent, employed as a man likely to exor- ciss a favorable influence upon an official. Board. His pay was to be contingent, it is alleged, upon his success, so that it was sim- ply hia purpose to get as much as possiblo for ‘the property which he ropresented. This property, or a large part of it, secms to have been sofd at one time for §3,500, and. haa never beon valued at more than £15,000, Mr, Peorzen kindly sells il for $45,000. It oconsists mainly of some letter-prosa coples of abatracts made by a firm before the five, but they are notably incomplete and frogmentary, and, as there is no material from which to completo tho ante-fire record, they arecomparatively value« less in themsolves. They are absolutely so, however, from the fact that the law which authorized the pnrchoso of abstract-books haa not been complied with in the case of the Looks eold by Mr, Perrzen, The law re- quires that tho Judges of the Court shall’ approve of the purchose of the books; but |- the Judges havo not beon consulted in the watter. Weo ghould think that this circum- stanco alone would vitiate the sale. If it doosn't, and the County Board declines to reconsider the purchase, the county tax- poyers will be required to pay 845,000 for somothing that will be of no use to anybody, for raterial from which it will not be possi- ble to make a complote abstract, or one which purchasers and wmonoy-lenders will acoept as evidence of title, There are manifold records necessary to give an abatraat of title authority, the absence or incompleteness of any one of which is sufficlent to vitiate tho abstract and render it worthless, The property which the County Doard proposes to buy—in fact has resolved to bny—does not contain tha roquisite rocords of ante-fire titles. Its forty books of lelter- presa coples of abstracts very posaibly furnish an ocfihmil chain of :lrau before the fire, bat it wounld have to be taken on trust by the purchaser or loaner of money; it wonld not be acospted as the same abstructs coming from the firm of Hanpy, Snnions & Oo. are acoepted by common congent. When the fire came and destroyed . tha sounty records, ihare wate fhree ababraot fring fn roodstanding which had saved their books and indices,—~BuonTart & Hoarp, Cirasg Brothers, and Jonrs, Hziiems & Co. These throo firms immedintoly united their books, and by combination and compnrison of three sets of books havo been ablo to trace chains of title beforo tho firo with almost the same .eertainty of corroctuess as if the original rec- onla of tho county woro still in existenco. Their abatracts have been universally accept- od, and the Infrequency of complnint and comparativoly small amount of litigation growing out of the destruction of the records attest thoir valme. Tt might Lave beenn good thing if tho county conld have bought theso three sots of booka at a rensonablo price, but the ownors thorcof had exngger- ated {dens of their value, and the negotiation for their purchase always failed. FExperience haa shiown that there are somo advantages in leaving these now semi-official records in tha hands of private parties, Abstracts cost more, but the profits the booka yiold to the owners assure their safe-keoping bettor than if they wero public property. At all events, nslong s theso throo sets of books continue abso- Intely the only completo evidences of ante- fire titles in oxistonce, it is sheer folly for tha county to pay any price, large or small, for partinl and incomplote evidence which is of no valuo to anyboy. ‘We think it would be well enough for the county to possess indices of tho records since tho fire, but it is not necessnry to pay $15,000 for them. It is only a matter of clericnl labor and eareful supervision, and we have no doubt that such a set of indices for the pnst four years, dating from the fire, could be mode in tho Recorder's office at n cost of onefifth or one.querter of what it is proposed to pay. Thereafter tho indices could be kept up at n small increase of cxpenso along with the records as they are mnde, It Is ontirely probablo that, some day in the future, the three sets of ante-fire in- dicos cnn be purchased nt a rensonable price, and tho county would then possess a com- pleta and valuable sct of abstract-books, dating from the beginning, and furnishing an uniuterrupted chain, But all the stulf which the County Commissioners'now want to pay $46,000 for would be of no value, and thero ia not the slightest oxcuse for the proposed expoaditure. We sincorely hopo that the purchaso may bo reconsidered, and shall be surprised if Mr. ITorpey, after more mature oxamination of the mattor, shall not change hig voto. If the Courty Commissioners want to do anything, let them proceed in n lnwful manner to authorize a preparation of abstract- books from the firo down at the ordinary cost of tha necossary clerical labor, and no more. DOES THE PRODUCER OR CONSUMER PAY THE DUTY P A weelk or ten daysago the Journal repeat. ed its peouliar notions as to who pays the tariff tox, ond challenged Tue Tninune to show wherein it wns mistaken, In s brief article Tux Tmisuse, complying with the wishes of ita venerable contemporary, pointed out the fallncy, not to say nonsenss, of its notion, that tho manufacturer paid it. After pondering over Tuz Trinuse's reply for s fortnight it returns to the question, and re- affirms that the manufacturer who exports the goods to a foreign territory, and not the purchaser nnd consumer, pays the duty, It talks of Tur TnwvuNe's “ignorance” of what it calls * facts,” and then says : Ana matter of fact, the Pittaburg manufactarer sells his froa in the Torouto or Montreal market for almost exactly the samo prico as he sella the same iron in the Pittaburg markot, 80 that Le not only pays the duty, but also pays the cost of transportation to Toronto or Moniroal as well, Tlo, howevor, recolres his pay in currency at Pultabury and In gold fn Zoronfo or Mone treal ; but the difference betwean currency and gold s not RuMclont Lo pay the fraight, inenrance, and duty, He muss make concessions or ho canuot sell at all, Tt fu the sbarp competition between the English and Amorican maunufacturors which compels esch to pay the duty, and which provents either of fhom from clarging it over to tha consumer, Unlass this sharp competition betwaen tho English and American monufacturersinduces oach sido to sell its iron bolow cost 15 per cent, neither party pays the Canadian duty, which i3 15 per cont. If oithor competitor sells iron to tho Canndinus at cost, the Cana- disn purchaser nccossarily pays the duty limself, What objeot the Pittsburg manu. facturers can have in selling iron in Canadn ot 16 per cent loas wo cannot comprehend, nor does the Journal nttempt to explain ; for, unlesa thoy sell at 16 per cent below cost, they connot claim to pay tho Canadian daty. I thoy selt ot 7§ per cent below cost, they only pay half the duty and the consumer pays the other half, And so of any other per cont below cost, ‘ But it is so highly improbable that Ameri. can manufacturers would send their goods to a markot whero overy sale consumes a por- tion of thefr capital equal to 15 per cont on tho amount of wares sold, that the Journal will experienco considerable difficulty in con- vincing any of its readers, and its hardest task will bo to make manufacturers believo it, and it must oxouse Tux Torvuxe for dis. belioving it. The Journal produces n table of prices of iron in Montreal and Pittsburg, from which it appenrs that bar iron sells for 88,50 in gold in the former and $2,60 in greenbacka in the Latter city, from which the Journal draws the nstonishing conclusion that the Pittsburgor who ships iron to Montreal pays the Canadian duty thercon! Lot us figure alittle on the basis of the Jotrnals quotations of prices, With bar iron at $3.60 in Montrenl, the cost will be #70 per ton in gold, or $8) in greenbacks. ‘Tho purchasor of the Pittsburg iron will pay the manufacturer, thorofors, $80 currency for a ton deliverad in Montrenl. . Tho cost of the iron delivered is made up as follows ¢ Daty-as ton costof tron, billed at m L e e o S s 0. What {tie consumar poys Now, unless the Journal shows that bar iron in Plitsburg cannot boe sold thero for $63 per ton except at.a loss, it necessarily follows that the **Canuck" paid the duty as | woll as tho cost of transportation, But the Journal quotos bar iron in Pittsburg at $2.60, which would be only 52 per ton, In that cose tho manafacturer made a clear profit of $11. It will bo necessary for the Journal to show that the iron-monger at Pittsburg sold his motal below' cost §9.50 por ton before it can muko good its Assertion that ks paid the daty, It it establishes thot fact, wo will point it to & manufacturer on the high rosd to ruin, and the more iron he sells in Oanada tho ‘quicker ho will get into the bankrupt court, . On most subjects the Journal is quite sound and rational, but when it touches on the tarifl it is as crazy as a loon, and believes all manner of sophistry and fallacy,~—ons of 'ita fancica boing that above stated, that the 1eanufacturer pays tho duty instead of the conswmner. As the Journal professes to be- lieyo that, one would reasonsbly expect to find 1} enthusisstically in favor of immense -importations -o¢ foreign “goods in order to msks foreignatd pay of our nstional debs very rapilly, as well ns to support onr Goy. ornmont in grand slylo, but for some uy. known reason it is not, . Tho Dritish ship Dromen, which arrived in fag Franciaco afier A voyago of 192 dasa on Tyes. dny of last woek, has curious history, which tho tolograph omitted to give. Tho Dremon 15 owned by Enwarb Batxs, tho member of Patlis. mont who wae 8o viclontly sitacked by PLissorg, s few weeks ago. EHo has tho reputation of bo. ing rattier A reckless merchant, having lost o targe uumber of ships, Tha Dremen docs noy appoar, howaver, to be poorly conatructed, nor [s it chiarged that sho was fusufliclently manned, The suspicion s in this case that tho ehip age not proporly provisioned. Thirteon of lor crow died and wero burled &t Res, ang twenty-two more wore down eick wheg sho arrived in Ban Francisco. Tpe cauep of death ia variously given 11 tho logas ** affection of (ho throat™ and ! cousnmption ;» but it is well knosn that those aro mery ouphemieme for seurvy, There {8 no reason why acurvy rhould break ont in & ship that hag a proper 8upply of frexh meat and canned vege. tables. Thao Captain of tho Bromen alloges thag Lo did have such supplics, but that tho crow re. fused to use thiom,—an assertion which, on g face, nppoars incredible, It responsivility fop tho lives loat on tho Bromon sball bo clearly fixed on Mr. Bates. ho will Lave soma difficuliy in egan facing Mr. Priusort in Parlisment, Two miastatomenta concorning Tne Cricaae TRINUNE rro being esrculated by nowspanora in oll parts of tho country. Onola to the effect that Trr Tninune chargea DoNALDEON with the death of Grixwoon, or at least insinuatos that thoie mav have beon a death-striggle in the balloon which rosulted in tho ovorthrow of the younger and wosker man. Tu® TAIRUNE uover made any such inrinuation; themoat it did in this direction was to publish & dispatch from Michigan, purporting to give the drift of publig opinion on the east shoro of tho lake. Anothep fucorreet and unjuat statemont, which bas been ‘wado by tho Bt. Paul Pioneer-Prese anl soveral papers in tho Bouth, convays tho impro-sion that Coreraxp, tho clerical nonspapor corro. spondent who was latcly tarred and festhored at Knoxville, Tenn,, was connected with Tag ‘Intouss, CopErAND I8 an atlache of tho Ghi eago Times, and ho waa punished for lying about tho Iate ANDREW Jouvsox in tho columus of that paper. —_— It the Mississiopl mathod of mocnring audl. encen for political apoakers shonld become com. mon nat tha North, rebellion would he our ouly refuge. The Judgee arrango maiters down there. A typical caso oceurrod recootly in the Clarke County District, the Judgo of which ane nounced on Monday, the Sth iast,, that any per. son leaying tho room in which he was holling court would bo fined and imprisonod. The Judge then introduced s candidato for Congress and soveral other speakers, who hold the audionce “gpoll hound " for morn than thres bours. Tha svatem s mavifestly hard on aa audience, but it has ite advantages. Thero are soveoral local pohticiens in Chicago, such-as A'd. Hronetu and * Conchshell” Rervorvs, who bave been studiously slighted for msny yoars by ao iotelligant public, Thoir only chaace of political galvation is to movo down ta Miasissippi and buy up & Judgo. —_——— The Southern journals ae m=intaining a high standard of values, aod show a sclf-respoch winch is commondable. Tho Savannal News, for {ostance, eaya: ‘A 25.cent watermclon for a dollar notice—we can't see it.” Compszs tuls truo indorendenco nnder adverss circum. stances with the truokling spirit of a Northers Ponuaylvania editor who advertises that bie ** will take huckleberries on subseription, and thea porder over the so-callad docadonca of ehivaly in the Bouth, e — WNever mind the cold weather, it s bottor Juck thaa they hove in the Esst. Ono summer hote! in New Jorsey hue bean broken up by mosuitoss, Forty-savon guests left in ono day, and-thirtp threo others would have dono tho samo thing but they were 80 covared with bites it waa not safo (o move them. Hero is a good oponing for the German savant who insists that mosquitost are healthy. Thoy sto—to leavo slone. —_— *I'm nothiof,” was the indigoant replyols handsome French geotleman arrested wilh his hand in a lady's pocket 3 **1 wan niorely slippg & lovo-letter into her pocket,” and he produced the love-letter, indoed. Bat a3 the lady wat pasge and plainly attired, tho policomnn searche ed him and fonnd ferty-one pucket-books and a neloct mssortment of jowelry. What a fortune that maa could meko in the bunko-business iz Chicsgo, Tho Iitinols State Doard of Agriculturs sne nounces that tho Btate Fair will occur at Ottama on the 13th day of Scptember. The Fair {a ono of the most interesting evonts of the year, and ebould draw out not only a long list of compoeti tors for the various pramiums, but an attends wnce larger than ever. Thia is a year of plenty, and cousequontly of rajolcing to the huaband- wap. Let himmako it & season of enjoyment and good fesling alao. — A Newport 1adv has been enubbed eo often that she is coming to regard life in s uow light. Whenever shesske s man aftor hiawife be makes » wry face ; whonever she Inquires of 8 lady how her hueband is, the lady puckers op hor mouth ; and then she learns from somobody elgo that all her friends aro alvorced. It has be- come 8o dangorous to make theso inquirion thad sho wisely decides to abandon them, The roport clrenlated by tho newspapers of thia city that & Culeago Alderman had received s lottes commenciog * Dear and Honest Bir," It mot with the most [rritating fucredullty by the unregenerate pross of the Unitod Btates, DAV BER S O W N POLITIOAL ROTES Boven nomlinationa for Congress have thua fat been made in Aliselaalppl. Five of the candl dates aro ** Colonols,” one is a * General,” sod onoisa *Major™; the privates are yet tobe beard from. Whatover may be waid sbout the color-line in Missisalppl, it {a quita evident thad the people in that region are acting upon a mills tary Line. Tho Couricr-Journal doutos by aathority ths statement that Qov. Leslie and Gaun, Jobn B, Willisms have pledgoa themnelves to work for thoe re-eloction of Benator Btevanaon and agninsé Mr. Beok, in cass the contest is narrowed $0 theso two candidates. Leslie and Williame acknowledge uo pledge. It is worth obsarving, however, that they do not show munoh kindnoss for 3r. Bock. In viow of thorecent outrages in Willlamson County, and tho romarkable complications thst huve arisen undar the amendsd Revonuo law, &2 extra gosslon of the [liinols Loglslature ist ked of by some of the couutry newspspers. The ' prospoct {a torriblo to the Virgints Gazetre, which thivks that-even the outrages -in Willlamsod would bo light indeod in comparison with & Iml: visitation of Haines aud ' ttie wosut Logislatwie that ever met at Springdeld, Boveral Bouthern newspapers, chief amoog which ts the Richmond Whig, ate taklng decided grronnds in opposition to Tom Soots's Southera Paciflo scheme. Thoy concslve it to be fu the Interest of St. Louls and the Pennsylvanis Raile rosd Company, to the exclusion of cltfes on the South Atlantic resboard. Rathor thau bave sach s line bulle nod such cpunootiona establusdeds thoy would be content with mone atall. ‘Tbe Richmond pavers, of courss, do s good deal % tslking in the intarest of the James River Esnawha Canal projoct. Benator Ferry's views in regard to the flauco have undoubtedly undergons the same mod.iis* tion as Sepator Morton's, A Mackioaw ocrre- spondseot of Tux Tatnuxs tecently lutimsisl s® much, and ‘several ‘Mtohigaa newspapers bavd socepled Ahie alatameat of tha correspondent ¥4