Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1875, Page 4

fHE CHICAGO TRIBUNK: WEDNESDAY 8 IPTEMBER 15, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATEA OF AUSSCRITTION (FATARLY I¥ ADVANCE), Pontaxe Prepald nt shis OMce, Patp Ly 1R Wealdr, 1 yoar....8 1,03 A ferkiy: B30 | ¥ive eopi Bupdsy K daoublo shest Tarts of & year st the sama rate, WaNTED—Ons selive agont in cach town and village, Bpecisl arrsngements made with auch, Bpecien coples sent froe. To prevont delsy snd mistakes, be sure and gire Foet-Offes sddress in fu?, Inclnding Stateand Connty, Remittsnces may be mado cither by drafl, express Pest-Office order, or {n registered lotters, st our risk, TERMA TO CITT SUBSCRIDERS, Daily, delivered, Bunday excepled, 2 centa per week, Daily, delivared, Sunday incluiled, ) centa per week., Address TIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Oorner Madisan snd Dearbarn-ata,, Chicago, Il TO-DAY'S AMUSEMEN ADELPHI THFATRE--Desrhorn atreet, corner Monrce, Varlety perforinance. Afternoon aud svening. CADEMY OF MUSIC—Taisted street, between Bt )‘ur‘aml Monroo, Engsgemant of the Marfan Taxlor Combination, * Dulls acd Dears,” Afternvon and eventug. MCVICRER'S THEATRE—Madison strest, betwoon Dearborn and State. ** Hunning a Corner,” TNOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph strest, hetweon Ciark and Lafialle, Engagoment of Sho Csliforuts 3dinstrels, Afternonn aud eventng, CHICAGO THEATRE—Clark strest, between Ran- olph sud Lake, * Paulice,” —Mozros_street, between Deare onnd the World fu Kighty Daye.” og. INTER-STATE EXPOSITION—Lsko shere, foot of Adsms siroet, TESPERIA TODGE NO. 411, A, I, & A, M.—Re; 1ar communieation this (Wedneaday) eveniug, sept 8t Masoule Temple, cor. Ilandoiph and H THIRD DEGREE. Visitingbrethren rord! * CHAS, 1, BRENAN, W OUAS. F, FOERBTER GARDER OITY LODGE, Na, 141, A F. and A, 3— A riguinr communivation will be hl:m at Uriental Hall gl Wednesday ovening, H(‘r,l. V}G ""“‘t"lm M. Visitf tlron fra A . earve, Visiting brethrn St co, W, M. QTIXG MONE.~EVRRY trd's Tioom of Youth " is & rlaments, capahls ol fmpart- b anthnl conploslon to suy Lis Conntey nor any other can atider bo found, Snid by all druggiats. S LI L L ‘\Vadnosday Morning, Beptomber 16, 1875, "= Greenbacks, ot the Now York Gold Ex- chauge yosterdny, opened at 852, rose to 86, {fell to 85}, nnd closed a shado higher. ittt had e The New York and Philedelphio daily pa- @ers of Monday morning, Sept. 13, wero placed on oar dosk yesterday (Tuesday) morn- ing at pu early hour, having come by the new fast mail train over the Pennsylvania 'Contral and Fort Wayne Railways. Wo ac- ‘cording]y tender our acknowledgments to the officers of this great Company for their advance favors. At n largely nttended mceting of the Re. pablican Central Committee of Cook County, yostordny afternoon, important steps were taken in connection with the appronching campaign, It wns decided to urgo the organ. $zation of Republican Ward and Town Clubs throughout the city and connty; and to ap- oint o committes of five to prepare an ad. dlress to the Iepublicans of Cook County. T'hero i evidently a settled policy among the ‘hend men of tho party to enter the fleld an- der tho old party nomo and to put forward o Zull Republicon ticket, 1t does not appear quite so clear that Servia ~vill abstsin from participation iu the Tarkish revolt, There has been doveloped a decided difierenco of opinion on this subject. The Committee of the Skuptschina or Servian Chnmber to whom wag referred the address of tho Prince Mivnavo cannot agreo as to the courts to be advised, one element favoring the relegation of the quoestion to the Servinn Government, while the insarroctionary wing of the Commiltee are fierco for an immedinte declaration of war against the Porte. While 1ihis discussion progresses a large number of Servinn army offlcers are leaving for Bosnin in disgnise, and an order has been given far tho immediate manufacture of seventy-two Sags for tho Servian army. The repart of Speeial-Agent ITaze, of the Irensnry Departinent, on the subjoct of the interior pots of entry and the wotkings of the Immedinto Transportation act, is alto. gether flatlering to tho Custom-House of- ticors of Western ports, It is found that ap- praisals ate mode with great strictness, no undarvaluations being discovered, and tho #ystem in general is warmly commended. Various improvewents are suggested in con- nection with the customns servico ot the ports of arrival, with 8 view to facilitating tha iransporiation of imports to interior ports, wod o disposition {8 wanifested to jncrease tho eflicionoy and value of the system, instead «of bampering it, 0s was desired by the sea- board importe The Bonapartist movement in Frauco seems destined to assnme such a prominence 49 to call for some action on the part of the Government. Rovnrn and Onuvien will at- tend tho conclave in Switzerland on Friday of this week, and Admiral Roxcienz 1z Noouy hoa boon invited and will probably Do there, fhe profuse distribution gratultously of copies of the Pays and Ordre among the sol divrs in barracka in Paris, and the determing. tionof the Bonapartist leadera to priut and circulate 1,000,000 copies of M. Duvavrs speech at Evreux, together with tho letters of Admiral Le Noony and the Prince Im- perial, havo so far attracted the notico of the Turwanent Committes of the Assembly that 1his body will to-morrow call upon M. Bur- vT for information as to the Government's intention concerning theso demonstrations. —— The Chicago produce markets wers steadler yeaterduy, sud grain way strorg, Mess pork way quict, and 5c per brl higher, closing at $21.55@21.60 cash, and $21.05 for October. Lard wes quiet and unchunged, closing at F12.85 por 100 1bs cash sud $12.90 for Octo- Lor. Moats were quiet and steady, at 8¢ for sboulders, 113@11Je for short ribs, and 120 for short clears Highwines were dull and unchanged, ot $1.16 per galon, Lake frights were quiet and firm ot 2|@2)c for curn to Buffnlo, Flour was in fair demand und rather firm, Wheat was active, ond ta1je higher, closing at $1.15} for Beptem. berand $1.184 for October., Corn, was nc. tive, snd 1@1jo higher, closing at 60je for Beptember und 5930 for October. Oats wore active, uud je higher, closing at 8630 for Sep- tember and 84jo for October, Rye was stowdy ut 760, Buorley was active and irregu- lur, closing at $1.11 for Beptember and $1.06 for October, Hogs were in good dewmand, und were strong ab o slight advance. Bales L L 36205025 . Cattle wore fuirly active and firm, with sales at $2.50@0.60, Sheep wero in demnnd at stendy prices. On Saturday evening lust thero wero in storo in this city 526,006 bu wheat, 1,058,508 bn eorn, 785,706 bu oats, 78,828 bu rye, aud 61,459 bu batley, Ono hundred doliars in gold wonld buy £116.87} in greonbacka at the close, Tho annual mceting of tho National As. gociation of Lumbermen began in this city yeaterday, with delogates presont from overy State in the Union, Tho Associntion is com- pored of lumber manufacturers and dealers throughout the United States, and represents milliond of capital. As was remarked Ly scveral of the epenkers yesterday, il is pe- culiatly fitting that the Association should meet in Chicago, the grentest lumber mart in the world. Hero tho question of demand and pupply, tho question which will chietly angross tho attention of tho Association, can bo investigated and diseussed with the prac- tienl aid of daily demonstration such aa could hardly bo obtained elsowhoro, It stands nd- mitted by the gentlemen who conduct the Inmber trade of Americn that the supply far exceeds the detnand, and it secms to bo con- ceded with equal unanimity that a eritical timo hina arrived, o time whon tha Associn- tion must solve the problen of release from the presont uuhenlthy coudition of things. The 'proccedings of tho Associntion will tlereforo be watched with especial interest, Onea moro the Episcopnl Diocess of Tllinoia will undertake tho difficult task of choosing a Bishop, Dr. D Kovey, who wna elected by the Special Convention in February last, and was subsequently rejected by a large ma- jority of the Standing Committce of the Dioceses in tho United States, has recalled his acceptanco of the Episcopate, thus leaving the present Convention free to bogin afresh in tho olection of a Bishop. It ia quito cortain that Dr. Dg Kovex's namo will not be pressed agnin, although his {riends still maintain that ho was completely and canonically elected Bighop, and that the Standing Committees had no right to defeat the will of tho Diocese of Iilinois in that election. TFor the good of the Church in this Stato it is carnest ly to be loped that the present Convention will succeed in putting aside the tendeney toward intolerance manifested on both sides in former conventions, and in ar- riving at a Christian and reasonablo conform- ity, if not unanimity, in the matter of the Bishop,—that the majority will not abuse n & prerogative possessed hy virtwo of slheor force of numbers, and that the minority, when beaten jn o fair contest, will gracefully nccept the result, * THE NEXT CITY ELECTIOR, The Common Council of Chicago have adopted a resolution dirccting the Corpora- tion Counsel to report his opinion as to the power of the Council ““to call a special elee- tion for the election of all city ofticers under tho charter of 1872, prior to the annual elec- tion under such chorter,” Tho charter of 1872 provides for an elec- tion of Mayor and other city officors on tho third Tuesdny of April, 1873, and every two years therenfter. 'The first or next regular clection under that charter for Mayor and Aldermen will tako placo in April, 1877, It is & question whether the “ City Council, City Clork, City Attorney, and City Tress- uror” may be clected ‘“‘at the gencral elec- tion for cily officers on the third Tuesday in April” in 1876. The election for Moyor is peremptorily fixed for the odd years, 1873, 1875, 1877, ete. 1t is claimed, however, that there is power to hiold a special election under the following sections of Art, 4 and Art. 2 Ant, 4, Sro, 14, 1f thore (s a failore to eloct any officer horeln roquired to bo elected, or the person elected ahould fail to qualify, the City Council may forthwith order s new clection therefors and fn ail ‘casca, when nocossary for the purposes of (his act, muny call speclal elections, appoint Judges aud clerks thero- of, canvass the returns thoreof, olc. Anr. 2, 8r0,2. Whetever a vacancy shall happen in the office of Msyor, when the unexpired term shall be ono year or over from the dato when tho vacancy oo curs, it shiall bs filled by an election, 8rc.d, If the vaceacy 4a leas than one year the City Council ahall elect one of its number to act as Uayor, whoaball possess all tha rights and powars of the Mayor, ote, ‘There can be no question thatthe Camnion Council can order a specinl election to il va- cancies,or when there Las been a failure to clect, or whon the person elected fails to qualify. But nons of theso contingencics now exist, There hns been mo failure to elect, and no person clected las failed to qualify, nor is there a vacancy in any of the city oflices. ‘The present Mayor, Oity Attor- ney, and Treasurer were electod for a term which does not expire until the first Mouday in December, 1875, or until their successors are elected nnd qualified, There boing no vacancy, how can an election be called to fill that which does not oxist? The vacancy must precedo an election to fill it. There is n wido difference between a vacancy in an office by the death, resignation, or removal of an incumbent, or otherwise, and the ex- piration of the term of the office. The latter is not legally o **vacancy.” Tho law provides for the cloction of all officers, and for the clection in due and proper time of their successors; o vacancy happens from some unforeseen cause; it is of necessity al- ways in on unexpired term. Henco all elec-} tion laws provide: 1. For tho election of all officers at the appointed time, and fixing the dates when that term shall begin and end ; 2, They provido the eonrse to be pursued in case there bo a failuro to eloct, or when the officer elected shall fail to qualify, or prove ineligible ; 3. When a vacancy happens in an offico by the desth, resignation, insunity, or rewnoval of the inonmbent. In no event can there bo a special election to fill nn oftics in ouy of thesa contingencies until the event buppens. The charter of 1872 specially pro- vides for all theso cases, Thers can be no special election held to fill a vacancy until after the vacancy has happenod ; and the law makes Qrcot and permanent provision for filling all offices at the regular times, and in anticipation of the oxpiration of the current torms of the present incumbents, Judgo Dickey is asked to giva his opinion whether tho City Couucil can call a speciul election in November, 1875, to cleat oftleers, (1) when there has been a failure to cluct ; (%) when pemsona elected have failed to qualify ; (8) and to fll vacungios that may happen thereafter, In other words, to hold a special election in anticipation of vacancies that msy or may not happen in the future, The charter of 1872 is emphaticin fixiug the times when the officors shall bo alected and when their terms shall begin and end. The Constitution is equally emphatic in de. claring that the term of no officer can bé ex. tendod by auy act of the Leglalature. Iu that part of the oharter of 1872 providing for the organization of villages, it is provided that & special election shall be held to elect officers pro tem. to serve until the regulur election under the charter. This provision ig wholly wanting in that part of the charior relating to incorporatod cities adopting the geueral charter, the (heory of the charter being that in the case of citiea tho old Bovernmental machinery was to con- tinne in operation until such timo as the new ono Legun o operato under tho new law, Henco it follows that, a8 tho terma of the present city officers cannot bo logally extended under tho Constitution, and as there can bo no general clection under tho new charter until at the time fixed by that new chiarter, thero should bo an clection for city officers according to the old law and machin. ery, to serve until the first regular election under tho new charter. The Iaw does not contemplate a poriod when there shall be no officers ; the Iaw prohibits an extension of thw torma of the old officers, and it is ps cm- phntically fixer the date when officers under the new charter shall begin. The only legal method, therofore, of bridging tho interven. iug period, is to olect persons under tho old Iaw to govern the city for that time, THE LATE LAKE DISASTERS, Tho loss of the propellers Equinox and Mendota in the Into sevoro gale should direct attention to {ho practices of our lake marine, There is littlo doubt that both thieso vessels were unseaworthy. Thuy wero both rated as B 2, noxt 1o condemnation. The rates aro A1,A2, 81, B2 and condemned, Those rated B 2 ean get no insurance, which is the best practical test of upseaworthiness. But they are kept in service and loadod down to the water's edgoe ns long as they can geta license, Tho trouble is that the vessels are not condemned when they ought to be. Asa rule, all tho vessels which are rated as B 2, and cannot get insurance, are in an wn- fit condition for service. An American Priwsort might find herein an excol lent opportunity for fame and for Lenefiting his fellow—<creatures, Perhaps the work in this conntry would be of so dif- fuged n mature as to require rather an nssocia- tion than individual application ; but cer. tainly there is a demand for clorer inspection and a prompter condemnation of our lake vessels, . The practico of towing barges is also one that should bo prohibited. Iad the Equi- nox and the Mendota been freo on Tharsday night, thero isreason to belicve that they might have escaped, or at lenst that they would not have been so suddenly and totally wrecked as to give the crews and passon. gers searcely opportunity for snving their lives. Tho barges aro nn inven- tion to make ono propeller do the work of two. When thoy were firsl used, they wera made from the hulks of abandoned pro- pellers; now they are built especially for this service, Bcooped out 8o as to Lold the greatest possible eargo, and have a broad, fiat front, which presents o resistance ngainst the waves instead of cutting through them. The Mendots, scarcely fit to propel itself and its own cargo, was towing two of these im- mense macbines. They wero attached by great hawsers to the rear of the propeller, dragging it back; at the same time all the power of the steam and the scrow of tho pro- peller was brought into uso to pull them for- ward. Thustherewerotwogreatforces working in opposito directions. It was ns if two pow- erful horses should take hold of n frail wood- en box and pull at it in opposite ways. ‘Tho strain on the propeller of these opposite forces weakoned it in its vital part, and when tha waves struck it the arches gavo way. A large proportion of the disastors which have occurred on the lako have been undor the circumstances in which the Mendota went to pieces. The unsenworthiness of the pro- ypellers for one thing, the practical carrying of two or throe londs instead of one for an- other thing, and the tremendous strain of the barges for a third, are tho principal reasons for the bad wrocks and fearful loss of life. There should be such a system of inspection 88 to prevent thege abuses, THE MORGRELS BPOILS, The mongrel combination known as the People’s party, sired by Hesixe and damned by their own misdeeds, made n desporato effort to capture the mecting called by the rogular Democrats on Mondsy evening. It was not a very honorable or high-minded pro- ceeding, and did not meet with the unquali- fiod succeas which Mr. Hesiva's ambassadora evidently expected.. It simply produced a regular old-fashioned Democratio brawl, which is #he usunl result of an unwarranted interference in a political gathering. The representatives of Mr. HesiNo failed to mnka a favorable impression either inside or out- sido the meeting, because they were wholly and utterly illogical. K They lad no renson to offer why the Democratic party should abandon the flold in this city. They could not explain why, so long as tho Democrats are trying to maintain their party and elect their ticket in Ohio, Ponnsylvanin, Iows, Wisconsin, and generally thronghout tho country, the Democrats of Chicogo shonld deliberately givo up their orgonization with tho simple purpose of clecting a lot of bum- mers and blackmailers of both parties to the city offices. This is the point ot issue be. tween the Domocrats and tho Mongrels, aa woll es between tho Republicans and the Mongrels ; nnd there is no moro reason why the Democrats should givo up the city with- out a atruggle to tho no-party bummers than there is why the Republicans should do #o, unless thoy have more natural sympathy with the bummer element. The * People's party " was simply a com. bination of the foreign element to bent the ¢ Puritaus" on tho Sunday ordinance and secure ita répeal. The foreigners succeeded in this, the Bonday ordinance has boeen ro- pealed, there is no likelihood that any party will ever try to reatore it, and thore is an end of the issue, The ** Pedple’s party " ticket was electod to repeal that ordinance, and has accomplished its purpose. A majority of the voters of Chicago were in favor of keeping the liquor-saloons open on Sunday so thoy could got thoir tipple without reatrction. ‘They 8o declared themselves. But they havs found that the persons whom thoy elected to enforce their views in this regard havo dis- graced and plundered the city. Thoy are now nsked to keep up the organization in order that theso pervons and others of their ilk may continua their plunder. This is the only purpose of maiutalning the “People's party.” Tbere is not even a proteuse of anything else. The Republicana who voted the ticket two years ago because they were opposed to ** Puritanism” nod Babbatarianism axe asked Lo vote it again to keep bummers in office, The Republicans have refused, snd will run a ticket of their own in order to assure & responsibility of the oftice-holdereif thoy succeed. If the Demo- crats foil to take the samo course they will simply sdmit that they are in full sympathy with bummerium, and bave not the interest €ither of their own party or of the city at Leart, Mr. Kenos's speech at Monday night's meeting was that of an ignorant and bigoted wan, ‘Lhe ouly reason which he, 8 Demo crat, eant giva for aupporting the “ People's party " is, that tho Repnblicrus seem to de- riro that a rogular Demoeratio tickot shall bo run. A wan whose actions are governed by such & rulo is a reckless and unthinking eren- turo, To do ona thing simply De- enuso somebody advises another s n sllly confession of wonkness. If Repnblicans de. siro that the Domocratis party shall run tickot thia fall, it is Lecauso they prefer to nco the city offlces in the hands of ihat party (tho respectablo membors of which will hold the offica-holders accountablo for their con- clict), rather than in the hands of jrresponsi- ble bummers, intont on plunder and tax.cat- ing, who hold thomselves accountablo to no. body, Mr. Kenor is himself an office- holder, and, 18 such, ho seems to think that the interests of the publie are naturally an- tagonistic to his own personal interests, Without any regard to the tax-pnyers, to political principles, to party organization, lio is ready to join or snpport any combiunation which promises to keep him in office. 1le says, in effect, to tho public, that he doesn’t caro how many bammers and sealawags are elected to office, how much the tax-payers are robbed and cheated, or how much the city is nbused and disgraced, if he can ouly hold his place at tha publio crib. “I think the best way to do this,” Mr. Kenog rays virtually, ¢“ is to keep up the mongrel organization of foreign Know-Nothings, and induce Demo- crats to give it their votes under tho impres- sion that this is the way to beat the Repub. lican party.” ¢ Supposo it is," is the reply which tho Democrats make, * what good does it do the Democratic party whon tho dufeat’, of the lepublicans merely gives the offices to no-party mongrels and bad men, who take no interest in the Demacratio party nor the pub- lic good, aud who mercly use our votea to help them plunder us as tax-payers 2" * '"Tho Mongrels represont nothing but spoils and tho Know-Nothing spirit. Mr. Hzsixo, their lender, declares he is not a Demoerat, and refuses to promise that, if elected by Democratie votes, he will do anything for the party in the Presidentisl campnign. Ho wants o fat offico, but declines to boacconnts. ble to any responsible party organization for his administration of that office. Is ho really willing to indorse all the bummerism and corruption and ratify nll tho scandal of the past twa years in the City Government if he can thereby possess himself of tho County Treasury? Wo hope not. He <wants respectable Democrats to do the samo thing, but respectable Democrats haven't tho samo inducoments. 1o wants the Ro- publicans who voted for the ‘' People’s party " two years ago with a special purpose, which is loug sinco aceomplished, to do tho ssme thing this year without any purpose, and they have peremptorily declined to do it, ‘Whether or not the respectablo Democrats will permit themselves to be bullied into doing it we do not know ; but, if they do, thoy will havo no right to complain of bum- merigin and scalawagism aftor they have con- tributed to its support, aud indorsed it by thelr votes, S . THE MER WHO WANT INFLATION, ‘Che public is divided, on tho currency qaes- tion, into three classcs, The first wishes the currency left os it is. It wents no interfer. ence, no inflation, and no contraction—th:at It would have no stops taken towards resump- tion and nothing put upon the record which wonld ndd to the improbability of ultimate redomption. This is the laissea-faire, the do- nothing, the stand-still party. It is pretty Iargo, and it votes now on one side, now on the other, now not at all, actuated by a vaguo desire to keep an oxact balance between the is, no dopreciation and no appreciation. two other fractions of the body politio. The second class of tho general public wants the paper currency £0 bettered that it will bo interconvertible with gold. It js not united on the precise meothod, nor the exact time, but it is a unit in its aim. Many plans have beon proposed. Their central ides is that rosumption shall be brought about with tho least possible disturbance of business interests, and within o reasonable length of time, This party insists that the paper currency shall bo of & stendy and relia- ble value; that it shall not bo exposed to in- cessant fluctaations; that tho poor shall not bo robbed and the stock-gnmbler enriched by tho continued uso of a currency which rises and sinks like tho waves of a troubled sea. ‘The third class will neither go forward nor stand still, Its members are determined to go back. They think tho currency is worth too much, that it is too valuable and absorbs too much confidence. They proposs to make it worth less. They are in love with *‘ chesp money,” and money of doubtfut value, and in order to get this sort of wild-cat stuff thoy aro prepared to subtract 20, 30, 50—any number of cents from every dollar intrusted hy the thrifty poor to the savings-banks. ‘Thege men want & currency that no prudent man will keep onhis hands a moment longor than ho can help, a currency that fluctuates violently, with a general tendency down- ward, so that tho $10 bill will buy $8 worth of goods to-day, and 37 worth to-morrow, and $G tho day after, They want a currency that will be like rags tainted with somo in- fectious disenso, whick the holder is afraid to handle or drops in disgust, or like a rotling pear, worthless wunless instantly used, or like an electrio ecl, giving & shock of fear to every hand that touches it. The people, theso men think, have too much faith in their greenbacks, deprociated and finctuating a8 they aro, ‘They belleve they stand a good chance of redemption, and the paper, therofore, posses somewhere within sight of par, It iy now proposed to destroy this foith as far as possible, and to thus ‘“cheapen” the greenback. It is not pro- posed to make the greonback dollar worth 75 cents or 50 cents in gold, and then Leep it steady at that valuo, but to give it an utterly uncertain sud varying value, steady at noth. ing, with strong prospect of final extinction, The men who compose this third class and comprehend the effuct and outcome of infla- tion are, withoud exception, persons who are overlonded with unsalable property, Thoy are embarrazsed or broken spoculators. They bhave unsalablo lots and lands, stocks of goods and manufactures that will not scll, unrented building, idle factorivs, stock in bankrupt or crippled entorprises. Z%ey want to scli—un- load. Nobody wants to buy their stuff. They are therofore zealously striving to make the currency the most insecure and doubtful thing in the country, so that everybody will prefer even their unsalable trash to the moro trashy money. When this comes to pass, thoy hope to sell at their own prices to the honest but frightened public, pay off their debts, and have large sums loft with $hich to begin their spsculations and their batting on the market, anew, They know that & crash will come, bat they hope by that time to bave won by thalr gambling, to be ownars of some sound pisces of proper- ty, and thus to have exchanged, during the era of infiation, their bad stufl for good. Of a done in Mississippi. chased aud fired upon. publicans, therefors bocomen course, thera are many ignorant persons who ndvocate inflation becanso they really be- lieva it is for the genoral good, but every in- telligent man. who favors debasetuent of the currency «does ro for private rensons of his own, and belongs to this calegory of tho un- lucky apeculntors who hopo to bonefit them- solves at the exponse of everybody olso. TRE MI83188IPPI MURDERS, The dispatches sent by the Chairman of tho Democratio State Committeo of Mississippl to the offect that nll is quiot in (hat State, that thero are no disturbances, and that life and property are socure, consequontly lat there in no necessity for ealiing upon tho mil- itary forces of the United States, are now shown to be fplse. Al is not quict in Mis- sisgippl, There aro disturbances there. nud property nre not socure, and there isa necossity for interferonca, both of a military and fudicial sort, in order to protect innocent men who are being murdered, penrs that einco the Vicksburg rufilans mur- dered their quota of negrocs a new roid has been commenced upon them in Tallahatchie County. Last Tuesday, ¢two negroes, who, it is clnimed, came acrosa the river from Arkan. a8, registored themselvesas voters at Charloy- ton, in the above county. In Northern States, in any States where lnw and order are rerpect- ed, presuming that the charge of falso registry was trme, the parfies would have been ar- rented and tried by regular judicial procced- ings and punished if the charge woro proven. This, however, is not the way things are The fire-caters usurp judicinl prerogatives, and condemn and pun- ish all offenses by murdering the supposed offenders, provided they are negroes, without atopping to inquire whather they are guilty or not guilty, and, having murdered the of- fenders, then turn upon their friends and all other personq unfortunate enough to wear a black skin, who may got in their way, and murder them, This was the programme on this occasion. The two negroes wore at once Some other negroca stood by them. 'The pursuers roturned and reported thot tho negroes were swearing vengeanco ngainst thom, calla had beon made upon various towns for nsgistance, and tho next news we may expect to benr is of & negro-hunt and the murder of all negroes who may happen to be in the way of the hunters, whether they sre guilty of anything or not. In’ this affair, a8 in the Clinton mnssacre, tha chief trouble is, first, that the victims are negraes, and, sccond, that thoy aro Itopublicans. Supposo that this rulo of murdering those who register them- selves falsely were made universal, how large & part of the Democratic party in the North would survive tho noxt clection ? however, is only good and operative whero the offenders happen to bo negroes and Re- At last accounts, In view of these Iater developments ro- speeting tho Clinton maasacro and the possi- bility of ita epeedy repetition at Charloston, it js incumbent npon the Government to in- terfere and comapel order. the professional ontrage business, nor storics sot aflont by carpet-baggers for partisan pur- poses of outrnges upon negroes. 'The reports come too direct and circumstantial, and aro corroborated from teco many indepondent sources, to bo ignored or denied. Tho Chair- mon of the Democratic Stato Cammittee when ho sent that lying dispatch to Wash- ington thot thero wns no trouble and no necessity of interferenco, thereby deceiving tho President, knew the statement was false. Ho knew was not quidt. He blooded murders had been committed. Ho know that they had beon committed by fire- eating Democeratio roughs aronnd Vicksburg, urged on by the teachings of such nowspa- pers a8 the Vickeburg Herald. Ho knaw that if justice woro unimpeded theso ruffians would be brought to the gallows. Instead of this, theso murderers have slsughtered un- offonding blacks with impunity, and thoy will continue to do o so long as there is no law to punish them gnd no power that will stop in and protect their victims, It is evident enough that tho Governor of the Btate is a weak, incfficient, timid man, who, it ‘ho knows his duty, docs nor dare to perform it, and conscquontly that tho blacks kave no hops of defenso the United Btates Governmont, in beholf of the blacks, but in behalf of tho respectable white people and of the business intoreats of the Btate, to take official rocogni. tion of theso outrages. It is the duty of tho authoritics to hunt up and arrest overy one of theso Vicksburg villains and bring them to punishment 0s speedily s possible, The matter should not bo allowed to slecp, but should bo prosecutod with vigor until every ono who can be identified as having been con- nectod with tho massacre of the negroes at Clinton has been canght and bronght to trial, The wheols of the courts in Mississippl Love been rusty too long. It is timo thoy are sot in motion, avd that Justicotakes hor long-un. used Bword in hand again. And thero ig another point to be urged in this connec- tion. The negroes must loarn lo defend themselves nnd strike back again, stance of -the Clinton outrage they would have been justificd in killing their persecu- tors, If there is going lo be massacre, let it bo massacre on both siden, If the blacks want to proserve thoir libortiea they must do- fond them. Where they are not the aggros. sors they hnvo every right to stand up and striko back, and strike hard, and when thoy commence doing this in earnest their rights will be respected by the firo.eaters, who are only courageous when they are fighting do- fonseless men and women. e The inflation organ of this city has at lost disclosed one of the objects sought by the is- sue of more greenbacks, It is to convert the Troasury of the United Btates into a loan of. fice to lend the money raised by taxation from tho people to those who bave no credit, and can borrow nowhere elso, the other day that it was not likely that the 40,000 depositors in tho savings banks of Chicago, who were roceiving G per cont inter- est compounded on their $10,000,000 of savings, would ba likely to withdraw their money and put it into scrip bonds besring 8.85 por cent interest ; but that, snpposing | that they did do such a most improbable act, it would be simply withdrawing that much money now actively employed as loans to ls- borers, and to manufacturers for wages, and for various other productive purposes. It would bo s/ reduction of the loanable funds in this eity ten millions. - To this the inflation print says that if the people would take their money and pat it into 8.65 bonds, then *the Government, having borrowed 10,000,000 at 8.65, i prepared w lend $10,- 000,000 a¢ the sama rate.” That is to aay, the Government, having borrowed all the money, amounting to » thousand millions of dollars, now in the savinge: banks in the country, would proceed to lend it out to all the Jax ‘This is no longer that know that from him. daty of Coores, Doxoaw, Surmman & Cos., B, F. Al LENs, Tom Beatrs, and bankenpt railrond companies in the United Blates. eratic Administration would lend it out to all Demoeratio bankrupts and bummers, and n TRepublican Administration would do thesamo with ita friends, 1low mnch of this money would all find its way into the pockots of politicinns and dend-bentn, Instond of going to Washington and lovying a tax on all the Qovernment clerkn to ralse money to enrry on an election, or to keep nn jmpecunious nowspaper aflont, alt that wonld hinve to be dona would bo to send a note, through n Congressman, to the Recretary of the Trensury nnd borrow nil that was wanted ! therefore, the avowed purpose of inflation— {0 enablo persons who have no credit and no responsibility to borrow money from tho Tho purposo stated only ronders the menua sought the more infamous, It now ap- | National Treasury. In tho Council on Monday night, Ald. Firzoenanp aubmitted a resolntion directing the Corporation Counsel to report an ordi- nanco abolishing tho oftices of City Collector, City Assessor, and Tax Commissioner, surprisc is that such a resolution should be deemed necessary in order to remind the Common Council of their duty in the prem- ises. The cily has legally, and in complinnce with the Geperal Kevenua law, and under Bill 300, and in obedience to tha requiro- ment of tho charter of 1872, transferred the collection of all city taxes to the County Col- lector, All that remains, therefore, for the city to do in the way of nssessment and collec- tion of {axes is to cortify annually to the County Clerk tho nmonnt approprinted by tho city and needed to bo raised by taxation. Thero the whole powers and functions of the city terminato, No city oflicer has any power or ruthority to assess property for taxation ; the entire dutics of the Tax Commissioner's office, which wero to equalize valuations and prepare books of assessments, have been ren- dered unnecessary, and, there being no taxes to bacollected by nny city oflicer, the Collector of Tnxes becomesa gupernumerary. Despite all theso notorious facts, these three offices, with their numerous deputies, involving o large annual cxpense, continue. it is opposcd to abolish an office, party policy to ever threo branches of vice which bavo no longer tho slightest official duty to perform, sud the Common Council continacs them on {he pay-ro]ls of 1t in hardly necessary to add that the Council did not pnss the resolution. The resolution was reforred to a Commitlep,— that is, buried, put out of sight, as an imper- tinent interference with the right of forty or fifty statwart politicians to draw salaries from the public without any service. The Mayor and Comptroller, who are guardians of tho City Treasury,and wha profess to Lo striving 1o save every dollar of unnecessary oxpendi- ture, cannot bo ignorantof tho fact that these three branches of the public service have no longer any duty to perform, and that not to abolish the oflices is a gross noglect of duty and a fraud upon the publi the publie rer- W. Tarsuw, of Messing, is & guest st tho Palmor, Houso. The Hartfords sre talking ovar their luck at tho Bhorman House. The Hon. Joba C, Dore, of thia clty, srrivedin Washington yesterday. The Rev. J. Magno Pringle, of Kentacky, is a guest at the Tremont Houve. Clara Louiso Kollogg Is translating & French aclentifio work for family perusal. B. Cary says ho {8 as good & tomporance man a8 ever, aven if ho doos drink beer. Anothor man has inventod a flymmg machine— Dr. Louis A. Boswoll, of Alabama. 'The Scarlet Lady, says the Cincinuatl Gazetie, {8 tho nutaa of Ltho rag-mouey baby. 8. M. Etter, State SBuperintendent of Instruc- tion, is & guost at the Bhorman House, Thero was a glorious union of heart and soul in Troy—George F. Hart and Oalia B. Hoal. My, Bloomer is now said to have dicearded the brecches and adopted tho pull-back style. Haonator Catl Schurz arrived in Now York yes- y by the steamor Pommeranis from Hom- John Bartain, the engraver, has heen appoint- ed chiot of the flup-art dspartment of tho Oen- Adrian Izar, the famous Fronch billiardist, has arrived [n New York. What doos be want?—a Charsles Reade sympsthizes with Col. Baker. Thought the socrot of thay bald hoad would come oat sooner or later. Tt soems that Hariett Tiosmer, too, has written Let tho world be thankful that is is ouly for parlor production. Count Valmaseda will conduct the fupsrals of tho uufortunate Bpanarda sent out to Uubsas retnforcoments thia winter. Entriee for the colored nurscs of Androw Jolingon are now cloned, and it sppears that ho had seventy-threo of thom. George Auguatus Bala ls Bpokon of as cditor ofanow London evoning paper, to sako tho placa of Baron Grant's Echo. “Qen. Myor's voice Is as low and softas s womsu's,” writos s corrospondsat, He might add, *and just as deceptive,” Uopo DBismarck's prospective son-in-law will prove a botter man than bis son, bat it is doubt- Ho has & pretty hard name. Foley's status of Btonewsll Jackson, prosent- ed by Mr. Beresford Hope, M. P, to the Btatoof Virginia, has arrived in Baltimore, flawcs, ox-plo-man of the New York Post- Office, challongea an investigation of his warea. o losrued that ory in Washington. + Father's bair is growing gray,” la tho latesy populsr ballad; snd it (s enough to makeitte seo the way the young paople are soting nows- Mins Olars Davis, & beautiful and sccomplish- ed young lady of Charlesion, 8. C., hsa fust married Mr, Ah Laog, s _high-toned heathon of the same Jocality. The Hon, lorscs Wheaton, ex-membsr of Congross from the Byrsouse (N. Y.) District, 18 now visiting his daughtor, Mrs, William H. Tur- ner, at her rosidonce No, 330 Michigan avenue. Dr. Lemuel Moas, late President of tho hss been unsuimously elecled to & similar position iu the Indiana Btate Univeraity st Bloomington, 84 o salazry of $8,700 ‘Wo suggested Chicago Univernity, Judge and Mra, French dod Misa Preatou, the authoreas, of Concord, Maus., left for home last evening by the Michigau Central train. Thoy sttended tho Lzposition, and have, for so ahort & utay, seen much of Chlcago eoclety, haviog Leen entertained almost overy evening for a wook Ppast by somo of our leading citizene, Prof. Willinm Mathews, of the University of Chicago, has rosigued bis Professorship of Rhet- orio and English Litersture, and his resiguation bas been accepted. Ho proposes to devote bim- solt entirely to anthorshlp. be » loss to the University, which liss long prof- ited by bis services, but tha general public will be the gainer by the froedomn of 80 accomplishod l‘;& esnayist from tho exacting zoutisu of colloge His retirement will LUMBER. Secondd Annual Meeting of thy National Association. Address of Wolcomo by Senator Fe—; =«-Admission of Dealers. Ilow to Mako the Business Pay---Dimiy utlon of Productlon Suggesied, Tho Evils Complained of Dus t floted Qurrency, 0 &2 In Compelition with Canada.-Slatisties, MORNING SESSION, The stcond annus! meotlag of the Nationy Association of Lumbermon began yesterdsy morning, ot tho Tremout Houmo, in thiseity, ; Nearly evory momber of tho Association, abony 120 fu nll, was preaent, ovorv portion of (hy Unitod Btates being roprosontoed. 3r. J. G Thorpe, of Eaun Clafre, Wis., Presi. | Qent of the Awsociation, callod the moeting order n few minutos after 10 o'clock, and 1o queated tho Hov, Dr. Goodwin, of the First Cos. grepational Church of thiy city, to open the e - orcisas with praver, Thia belng performed, tho Chalrman madey fow romarks, alluding to tho vast maguitudy of tho lumbor industry s the Unitd Btetos. Lumbering was = laborious bnzardous buginess, Bubject ko and dostruction by firo and wator. dlml‘; TFor thy roason largo profits woro necersnry, The futny outlook of the lumbor trado Liad little of en. couragement, 'Tho supoly far exceadod the de maad. Tue genoral discussion of this subjed, howovar, would bo loft for othor apeakors. He* clouod witls the hope that the meeting would by 4 harmoolous and prodactive of mutual benofit, Ar, Poarson, of Chicago, thon introluced thy Ion, T. Michigan, ag roprosonting the lumbor Chlengo. BENATOT FERRY . Terry, Unitod States Sonator of ntereat o sald that whilo representing partially Chiesgy lumber interosts Lo sleo partially belongedto Michigen. Io did room to the lumbermen of Chicago that & lumborman should sddress then on the oceasion, o was bid by the Chicago lum. bormen to say that they wero mwost heartdy welcomo to this city. Aud it seomed tho selection of 1hia city wos moat fitt! to bim tht ing. Uen was tho contre of traflic, and cvery lumbermy should ba present, 'Tho extant of the lumbe trado wan such that thoy had doomed it neces § #ary to cstablith n National Ascociation. The lumber trade, begimning small and of onco, had nowr become of unceual imyortancs Tor the past two yodrs the uncertainty of th traffio hiad necessarily brought ou moro or lessof irregulaiity aud instability. Tho remedy lay wily them to bring 8 refurn of good times, The § wore fivo groat classes intorcutod in tho queation, § namoly ¢ _timber-owners, mill-owners, vissk owners, deplers, and consumors. There wa progresa in overything w lite, Ho would suggest t‘z compotition ot coalecence of strony gostod the romedy for thom toapp! claggify the trafllc into tho conservative and ths I progregsive interests, Tho trafiio began in the § clora idens of men who worlied only for their [ thoy sold, awn {uterosta, caring uot haw m 100, fnstcad of conridering tho tw seil, tho old 1dea wau aimiply suppl A O Iy, and only eared to stuily how ta couvert forests the mos quickly into lumbe, aud every manufacturer bad bea Teady toalscard slinplo machiuory and tako up wia all “fmprovemente, Lo rocalled that o shoe tbat they hod had conservative tmes in fhelr trade, They had found, however, had toudey” resched the gaal. Na lumbechad suy advntago over his nelghboe, The improvements wero a0 great (hat every svas » practical mechamic, They had been manufactire, rathor than on sale, o that now they su excon of yroduct. aviug dincovorod thtr do (8 L Letno Vo4 consumer present think that the manufacturors slons ‘wera {ntereated, Thia teuda alTected the entire natan, fect, they would disciise how fo remedy and thereforo called for thwgttoution of all Let them next consider thd progreasive stop o ey industry, 1oy fouud competition their st invention thoir mothod, Instabllity sud had conspired to injure the general intorests, Tiwp wera nll Jutorestod, consumer and producer, fn th preat question of Now to proserve tho trade, The.n Tay two methods by wiich thoy could suceoed,—spita- member _give tho oxperionce of hly dlstrict, snd gatier from tho combinad facts thua’ ob tion and co-operatinn, Iesone for (he fature. Aany Liad Deon formulitod by the press, for which they ware t0 bo thankful, What they wantod to do was o study the great 1t would 1,0 Niecki tiens of tho trafiio for teado might bo benefited, INE UON, W. T. PRICE, of Wisconsin, beiug colled on by the Chinairman, sid thint o was struce by eomo of 10 ruraarks of the dis- nguishod spesker Leforo o, Chicago s udeed s ing, It waa tho ceniro of the Weat, and go kind of bude ness had greater infiuanco fn thin city than the lumber trado, In order to impresa lbo gentlemen preseat withi an ides of tho magnituds of thie lnmber indusiss, tha apesker dualred to ivo tho following statinics Lo 1 umber aunually manufsctured n the country and the number of poopleemployed Miclugan, 400,000,000 fuet, cmplogiug 94,000 peaple: AFiscoimin, #00,000,.00 feat, employlug 36,000 people SMinncsots, 500,000,000 feet, employlng 20,600 people; 000,000 fret, employlng 22,000 peor 0,000 fect, amploying 6,000 pec eploylug 40,00 st Ating placo for the prerent meat| comimezcia }unl 1o the smount of Peunnylvania, T00,1 ploj Maryland, 150. Vio} Maluic, 640, 1,000,000,000 foct, peanla; giving & total of 5630,600,000 foet, 000 barrela of pork, worth $1,520,0.0; Tols of flour, worth §2,712,000, and_vegetsbles lo the value of §1,000,000, maiing total value af 1o0d top< tunod 0, ' Thiero was also paid out apnuslly In wage 000, Thio ¥aluo of stumpmge wa e Gimated st $9,415,000 anuual tucreado of § Tho fact was paten| continued the here was an industry “'"fi’.."n”:i. :1‘171‘15:: :‘xu:{}l'\z\‘ aind thoussnds of luborors t Yot it must bo perpetuaied, aud it was i conslder carefully in manufacture, Tho Becretary, then road the minutes meeting, inclu adopted at that tie. . Mr, Price statod that ho had just received s Aspach from tbe§Treasurer, AMr. Iforr, of East Baginaw, an- pouncing his (nability to be presont, Afr, A. G. Vad Hehstek, of Chicago, Was thoreugan electod Tresture? pro tem. DOARD 0¥ DIRECTONR, Mr. Prico, from the Dosrd of Dirctors, n&omd that the firat duty of the Committeo had been {0 de- cids whether the conditional reaolution on the subject ©f © contraction " bad leen adopted with susicient unenimity o be nding. They had therefors clrculars to each mewber, aud had delermined such resolution was not binding, The next duty 2sd bows to sppolit & Bocretary pro fom tn placo of lsary C, Dow, deceased, and (hoy had- appointed G.Be [+ #itockbrlage, Mr, Prico offered a resolution to amend Bsa. 1of Arte 2 of tha Constitution 8o &8 to aliow any jumber dealet 1o join tae Mlnc;:’uou on payment of & foo of §108ad sunual dues of § BTATISTICS WANTED, My, Colquitt, of Georgis, moved as 8D 10 fucrears tho annual dues to £30, so as to provide & salary for Becrutary, who could give his whols Ui 10 iho cullection of ussful and nocessary statistics, ¢ yavo his views upon the gencral atatusof ths tradey showing that the Association needed to pul forth ','.:3 effart {n order to aave tho trade from ruin, If & tuan could not 1o obtaiued o colleat theso slaiistich far lu.«w. pay him $3,000 aalary. . money ak for thu getlering of statistics, He hlj;‘ckm:.lu::mw Lers wore groatly embasrassed by uowledye of the trade, Mr, Pearsan, of Olifcago, sald that this been canvassod by the Lioard of D! and Jost, ADMITTING DEALERE. Ay, Rust, of ll)uhh‘m, suggestod that aibilo for deslers 3t create disturbance by resson of by lezs ouly caring to increase hol ‘The dealers ouly Cansd {u the future Luy their Jumber of tuzers, Houstor Ferry, of Michigan, sajd {hat ! never presunted ttsell bafore 10 him, s be hsd ueref dreamud Qs the dealars would era band K ust 0 tanufacturers. fviaton opou that parbof ibo Tesclution relatiod the aunual duce, At progress {/inxy eltber in sary Tor, manutacures 1o amount of thelr product, inthe intersst not only of themsolves, but of the dealers. hey were (hers 10 dincusa und accopt any sscriflcoreqiticed of thom, Haring thus thrown out kis idess of tho sials ot tho trade, thera vematncd for others to suggeat furthe and, moro yarticular methods, | Mr. Forry closed by urging the Askociation o give this subjoct thelr clanest attention, and 1o apare o effort by which the ,000" poople, Tho workmon corsunied anu € boards, $84,750,000, with 88 and to build wisely and well, B4 Femarks wero ovideutly directod sgaist any dacease ng the constittion and by-lsws of e, uf Liscoklyn, was of opinion that suficiesd had rectors, .:g 'f:; bad nupposed thut a thoro Were 1o be about A(L Elembary, whio would pay 1o sbout $500, this, "d"“;: annus) diior, would amount 10 about $5,000, which Towarded s enough for tho salary of 8 BocTERTY. 5 “I'ho ainendment of Mr, Colquitt was put 198 “nilited to membenhip ¥ local infly. This suz. ¥ He would |8 f anoke an: every miy that th dealer fl Jumbermia B ntort u L timulus 10d irregula tity tained tha slatiftics themselres, lesaen by , employieg 452,000 bate poaker, that helr duty 0 of the st awendmend oster 1t mighs be ‘mumber. wight ptees s viow bad omsel glud o8 Mz, Prics s nf.“"‘ {hat there ware several prosnd who were eligi ho inight dlscuss ihis fmportan th'n'nl::p«;t:m&u-m afgorded for mn& initiation feas, 1f0 thorsfors moved invited Lo cowe forward, for merbersliip wader the uid uostion o puy sualé sack b0 tabrook, of Michigan, moved that all Mr, Ea i porwed ited (0 give thetr viowl uestion, The motivs was u&‘ Avary, of Michigan, kad slways suppossd e AT e of daslers A} maBUThclprers Were oot cal. Jn Chicago suchi was the cass, Xles o was M