Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 8, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE RATER OF PTRECKITTION (FATARLR IM ADVANCE), Postage repaid at this Once, Daily Edition yywt-pald, V sone, Farts nf yoarat Mailed to any addres rouR wE Sunday Eaition: Literary and BKM for, Keilgiots Pan of year Werresy Eorrio’: Onecupr por veekly—Club ot fue, of twenty: ‘af Tirenta, remit tho postage, ve On all ctubs the out which te 15 coute @ con Specimen copt-# eett free, To prevent dolay aud mistnkes, be ance and five Poat-OMce address in full, Including Stateand County. Remittances may be made either by draft, express, Post-Office order, or tn rey red letters, at our risk, TERME TO CITY sU:CHIDE RA, Dafly, delivered, Sunday oxcoy-ted, 25 cents per week, Danly, delivered, Sunday included, #0 conta per woek, Address THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madizon and Dearborn-ate,, Ohicago, Tit, —_————_—— AMUSEMENTS. ‘ WOOMS MUSEUM—Monroe atrest, between Dear born and State, Afternoon, * East Lynne." 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Special communication this (Friday) @vening, Work on the Third Degree, BUSINESS NOTICES. WILROR'S COD LIVE OIL AND LINP—PRR. sons wie hava been taking Cod Liter Ui will bo pleaeed fo loara shat Dr, silibor bay succeeded, from alrectiay al professional gentlemen, in combining tho wre iv in such a manner that jt is chi aant ty (he and ite eftceta fn ling complatats arn teuly wonder. Bul. “Vory mary persons mouse cases aro pronounced Dufeless, and wha bad takes the close cil tora long tino wivhout juarked effect, Have boon entirely cured b {nia preparation, io sure and. yet the een factored by A, 1, WILBON, Chemist, uate The Chicagy Tribune, Friday Morning, October 8, 1875. Greenbacks, at the New York Gold Ex. thango yesterday, closed nt 83 ———— The Opposition County Executive Com- mittee havo decided upon holding tho County Conventionon tho 1th inst., aud the primary olections on the preceding day, All prospect of a possible unpleasantness between Burmah and Grent Britain is re- moved by the official announcement of an unconditional agreement by the former that British troops shall be allowed passage through Burmese territory, in caso another azpedition to China is determined upon. Tho offorta of the American Board of For- oign Missions to pay off its dcbt of $44,000 seems to be mecting with gratifying success, At the session of last evening a large number of subscriptions and pledges wera reccived, the aggrogato being about £25,000, of which a good proportion was contributed by Chi. cago, It fa reported that tho Ohio Democrats are Preparing to resort to chemistry as o means of assisting success at the polla, The story, which is far more ingenious than probable, is to the effect that Republican voters will be supplied with tickets upon which the names havo been scratched with invisible Ink, and that the scratching will not bo apparont until after tho ballot-boxes slinll havo been troated toonintornal sprinkle of powder prepared for the purpose of making the ink visible, Tho cleverness and stupidity respeotively roqnisite for the successful working of euch o scheme aro too inconceivable to permit of sorious apprehension for tho result, Lack of space prevents tho publication of more than a condensed abstract of a vigor- ous apeech delivered by ex-Goy. Wasnbonn at Baraboo, Wis. last evening, Mr, Wasu- unN arrnigns the Reform party in Wisconsin ‘with a list of failures and delinquencies which appear in striking contrast with the honesty, economy, and efiicienoy which characterized Republican rulo in the Badger State; and tha reasons ho presents in support of the os. sortion that tho Reformers should be reform- ed by being incontinontly turned out of office at tho approaching election can senrcely fail of carrying conviction, Not tess forcible ig Mr, Waennvnn's progontment of tho financo question. —_—_—— Ex-Spesker Buarnz, in a letter to tho Chairman of the Ohio Republican Executive Committes, explains that private and im. Pporative ongagementa havo provented his participation in tho campnign in that State; but he expresses confidently a prediction of $13.00 1.00 00 for corn to Bufalo, Flonr was in better de. mand and steady, Whent was lors activo, and 1@1}c lower, closing at £1.09} for October and $1.08] for November. Corn war rather quiet, and 4@Jo lowor, closing at 5640 enah ant Se for November. Oats wero quiet and steadier, closing at 3230 for this month and 32e for November. Ryo was quict at 72}@ Barloy was dull, and 1@2e lower, closing at 9740 for October and 954 for No- vember, Hogs wero active and firmor, with the bulk of tho antes at $7.60@7.85. Cattle wero dull and wenk, snles dragging at £2.60@. 6.15 for common to extra, Sheep wore quiet and steady. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $117.50 in greenbacks at tho close, Mayor Convin {s underatood to have ten- dered to Ald. Hicpneta the appointment of City - Marshal, and of course Hisoreta will Aecept, But for the fact that under tho Present ordinance tho Marshalship is a sineenre, with few duties nnd no re- sponsibilities, ft could be truthfully said of this appointment that the Mayor had made about the worst selection possible, It may, howover, yet transpire that tho framers of the ordinance defining the duties of tho City Marshal had this possibility directly in view, ond that, although Mr. Doszap resigned because he had no power to do any good, Hrrpretn hastens to accept on account of tho attraction which tho position possesses for an incuiabent who would rather not do any good. But if it proves that the Marshal's hands are tied for both good and bad, the appointment of Hinpnetm will furnish ground for congratulation that larger powers ware not vested in the oftice, es THE REAL MEANING OF THE CHARTER- DECISION. The matter-of-fact and common-sense in- terpretation to be put upon the Supreme Court decision in the charter case is that the Election law of tho State is meaningless, and only serves to lumber up the atntute-books, It may bo violated with impunity. Tho very safeguards which it provides against fraud may be thrown over so (that the frauds them- selves can never be traced, and yet tho fail- ure to traco them will be construed against thoss who protest against tho violation of tho law. ‘This is the practical effect of the decision, without any regard to the technical errors that may have been made in the prose- cution of the case, Tho violation of the law was admitted on tho part of tho city, not only in regard to the notice and change of yoting-places, but in the omission of several essential features of protection against fraud. ‘Yheso omissiona went up to the Supreme Court in a subordinate way, ond the Supremo Court allowed them to pnas out of the case by holding that the counsel for tho city had the right to withdraw the plea which bad brought ont the allegation of the omissions. We do not care to disensa the point whether or not tho counsel for tho peoplo were at fault in making up a record for tho Supreme Court; it is suflicient that the Supreme Court had before them on ndmitted violation of the Election law of the State in almost every particular, opening the way for the grossest frauds, and that they have decided that this may occur without vitiating an election | Wo shall not undertake to restate the wholo case, bat select bare samples of the doliberate violation of the Election law and its resulta. Tho law requires that thero shall be two clerks at cach poll, and that lista of voters shall be made and kept, This impor- tant requirement was utterly disrogarded in the First, Second, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, Eighteenth, and Twontieth Wards, where tho ballot-bor stuffing was done. What was the consequence? In the First Ward 1,762 votes wero returned, of which only 97 votes wero against the charter! Had lista of voters been kept, according to the law, it would have boen necessary for the clerks to have written out 1,762 names, It is notorious that there wore not more than 1,000 legal voters in the ward, and of these not more than 400 deposited ballota on the charter. ‘The representatives of the people contesting this election could then have taken tho list and proved in court that at least 600 persons entered as having voted did not vote at all, and more than 700 other names ontored a3 votors were necossarily bogus, and that there wero no voters in the ward answering to those names. But there woro no clerks, and law and committed the frauds? What is to Prevont the samo peoplo at tho city election next spring from following the samo course? All thoy have to do {s to refuse clerks, and poll-lists, and tally- sheets, They may then stuff the ballot-hores to their hearts’ content, as they did at the charter election, and it will be impossible to trace the frauds, for the means of proving thom will have been removed. We siinply describe the effect of the Supreme Conrt’a decision. If the ballot-boxes shall be stuffed next Aprilas thoy were lost April (and wo sev no reason they should not be, since thoy: will be in the hands of the same desperate men), tho Supreme Court will havo to follow its Inte decision, and hold that the preliminary: violations of tho law, enabling the stufling of the boxes, ave not to be considered. It will be impossible to prove the frauda whero no {ally of votes sball have been kept, and so the tax-eaters may perpetuate themaclves ang their villainies from gencration to goneration. Tho decision leaves tho Me helplesa, and the more helpless because “thota ia a low which nobody is bound to observe,—as tho Supremo Court has decided, THE LATEST COUNTY JOB. Tho erection of the new Court-Hongse bo- ging in the most unpromising way. Tho first contract—that of constructing tho foun- dation—has been let by the ringof the Coun. ty Commissioners to a former member of tho Board, who ia not a practical mason but iso professional politician, at a price excoeding one honest bid by £12,080), and another per- fectly responsible bid by $4,500. Both tho lower bids which wero rejected camo from practical and experienced contractora, who were evidently bidding for the work for themselves, and placed the bids at as low a figure as thoy thonght they could afford, These lower bids were rejected by a voto of surprising uniformity,—oight Commissioners, no Iste were kept, for the express purposa of depriving the contestants of the menns of tracing tho fraudulent ballots. Had lista been kopt, the judges and clerks would not have dared to make thesa falso entries, bo- causo discovery would have been inevitable. In other words, this violation of ona of tho osaential parts of the Election law was com- mitted deliborately with the purpose of ron- dering the atufling of the ballot-boxos in soven or cight wards casy, and of removing all danger of detection, With thia condition of things before them in fact, if not in tha. strict construction of the record, the Supreme Court ignored the admitted violations of the law as unesaontial, What is true of tho First Ward was also tre of the Second Ward, whero 1,585 vote s wero returned, not one-fifth of which we -¢ tho superior intelligenco of the people of | °¥er casty of the Eighth, Ninth, Eloven! }, Ohto ill not pormit 8 triumph ot the ay Eightoonth, and ‘Twentieth Wands, wt ore that ia laboring for an indofinitely irrodewma. | “P°Mous majorities wero given for tho o' nar. blo curroncy. Scarcely less important oa q| ‘* Under the same roscally and fraud utent principle, though at present only a looal | “feamstances, The fact that the re quire jasue, he rogarda the grave question of pro- ae of tho law were wholly ignored in or- serving intact the system of free education poe i Prepare for tho frauds subse quently and tho absolute freadom of thepublio schools oamaltped ie farther ostabliched by the oir- from sectarian influence or sectarian strife, | Cumstonce that, in the Third, Fourt n, Fitth, = and other wards whore lista of vo ters were The Committee of Eighty, composed | *ePt, the total vote did not amow at to one chiofly of cubstantial Christian businesa-man, | fourth the legal voters of those wards, and having concluded that there i emall Likeli- | ‘4 rmajoritica wero largely and, uniformly hood of unanimity among the mintatera aa | $BSinst tho charter, It ix uot al one that tho to the plan of operations, have taken the low was grossly violated, but tly at its roquire- matter into thelr own hands and dotermined | Mente wore deliberately aud purposely ig- that the rovival movement shall be inaugura- | Bored in order to maha way ‘for the frands ted in Chicago, They have about given up | *Ubsequontly committwd, that rendors the de. the expectation of securing the services of | “l#ion of tho Supreme Court full of danger, Mr. Moons, for tho proseut at least, and they | ‘There ura two reflections which suggest yesterday voted to hold union meetings in | themselves in con'acotion with this decision, Farwel) Hall every afternoon at 8 o'clock, First, what good ‘purpose is werved by having and invite Maj. D. W, Wurrrur to take | #8 Election law? Is it wot merely a dalusion sharge of the services, assisted by Mr, P, p, | and a enare? Te it not worse thon 9 dead. Hua, There fa no doubt that tho clergy of | lotter? Does it not leave honest voters the evangelical churches in the elty will very | under the impression that they are protectod generally unite in the movement, ‘now that | sainst frauds at the polls, while tho law is n che practical business men of the laity aye | ere cover for the iniquities of thosa in power fakou the Initiative. who may ignore and violate it with impunity? Would not the public bo better protected if thare were no law, ond the honest voters understood thoroughly that they must pro- tuct their righta at the polls by force and tarms ? (Vill it not be botter to havo the law repoled, #o thet oltizens may have full warn- ing to organize on election-daya into Vigilance Committees for their own protection? In tho next plico, what hope is thers for honest victory for the Republicans, bolieving that ‘Lhe Chicago produce marketa were rather wouk yesterday, with not so much doing. ‘Mens pork was active, and closed Btondy at €22.85 por br] cash, aud $10.16 seller the your. Lard was dull, and deolinsd 50 per 100 Mhe, clowing at ¥13,25 cauh, au, ¥22,05@12,10 sellurtho year. Moeta wero scarce and firm, at 13$@l4o for short rib’, and WAG@14}o for short clears. Highwine g wore more aotiye | elections in the future when the samo do- sud mtuady, at SLU per - gation, Luke froig'ata | oivion shat nullides the Elvotivn law aleo con- ware hy good demand gud strovges, ab 2jc | Unues tn oftive lhe yery.uen who violuted aa including 0, C, P. Honvex, voting against them and in favor of the excessive bid to which the contract was finally awarded, Thero ‘was some suggestion that the bond of McNer & Co., who offered to do tho work for $12,- 000 less than Hansa, was not sufllciont. To meet this, Mr, Croven moved to postpono final action, so a8 to givo the Bonrd time to examino into the bond and Mr. McNzr timo to improve it if it wero insufficient. But this motion was promptly voted down by the eight Commissioners, who insisted that their chum Hanus should have the contract at his prico. This was unreasonable, 23 a few days would not have made any important differ. enco in the commencement of the work, and might have saved the county $12,000. The refusal even to postpono with the prospect of saving $12,000 heightens the other suspicious fonturos of tho ense. In fact, the Chicago Times, in its issuo of yestorday, makes the following open charge: Ittaatact which the Sémes bettoves, and which {t will ere long teck to establish, that this fraud uy on the tax-payers wae engineered by Pentotar, and ( lint tho price received by the efght Courmissionors, who voted to accept Hanstn, waa $16,000, ot $2,020 cachs, OF this damaging fact there ia not a doubt, This dolib- ctato vale of the county’s intareste ts probably I rut the frat of s serles of similar mwindlos which wii run through the ontire work, ‘Tug Trrovne has no information ng to tho truth of this chargo, but it is not likely that the Zines, which is an institution of recog. nized financial responsibility, wo ald make such a charge unless it wero prepared to prove it. The allegation is certair dy atrength- ened by the peculiarly suspici ous circum. stances surrounding tha award, which may be briefly restated as follows: (1) The award of $12,000 over and absyo a bid be- lieved to bo entirely reaponsit jlo; (2) the re. fusal to extend tho time lor.y onough to ex- amino into the responsibility of the lower bidders ; (3) tho selection ¢of an excesstya bid that was mado by a profer ssional politician of intimate relations with th ering crowd in the County Board; and (4) tho bad and enspi- cious charactor of sov eral members of the Board, and the evidence» of formor jobs and devices for sinking the public money with tho connivance of the, Board, ‘Tho Citizens’ Anso ciation, representing the tax-payers, should take steps immediately to enjoin the commer:cemenf, of thia work nntil the contract can to subjected to tho scrutiny of ® judicial irvestigs tion. It is scarcely leas suspicious on its f+4co than the proposed payment of $45,000 for worthless abstract. Looka,which hos alro ady been enjoined. Eter- nal vigilance is the 1 wrico of an escape from tho succession of rob} jerjea that aro gonernted in this County Borr q, and itis only by follow- ing them up, ono after another, as fast a4 they show the mgolvos, that the tax-payers’ maney con be , protected, For tho rest, this swindle cow oa at a timo and in a form to givo the people » solemn warning os to the ap- proachiug olection, whon fivo vacancies aro to be llr ,a in the County Board. During tho com! year various largo contracts will bo made! .n connection with tho Court-House, and '¢ five honest men bo not chosen to fill the vacancies that occur, tho neglect will cost thes tax-payora hundreda of thousanda of ollars, The tax-payora must look to the fall clection with this feature of it ospecially in view, WHY CURRENOY SHOULD BE AT PAR, It ia a very common thing, as woll aa avery unjnst thing, to chargo those who favor a re- turn to apecto values with an undue interest in favor of National Banks, and to attribute to this interost in the banka an alleged hos. tility to groonbacks, We venture to say that 99 por cont of those who are stylod “bullioniata" simply ask that the currency bo made equivalont to coin, and, beyond that, caro little whother that currency be socured notes or Treasury notes, Aga banking system, the National Banks are perhaps better secured, and botter pro- vided against fraud and dishonesty, than any banks we have over had in this country, The capital la Jona fide pald in, the notes are am- ply secured, the security being equal to their redemption in coin, But tho friends of sound money and honest money demand that bank notes, as well ag all other papor {esues circulating ag money, shall bo made good for what they profess to be—dollars, aud not fluctuating fractions of dollora, ‘To this there {a intorposed a demand for an increase of the deprociated money. The do- mand is that the whole circulation of the bauks, which, undor the law, must be ro. deemod oun demand, shall be abolished, and that in lieu thereof thera shall be issued na- tional notes which are not to be redeemed at all, At no time, at no place, and in no form, has there ever been a proposition mada by ‘ny convention, committue, or individual, for an increase of national notes coupled with any plan for their redemption, or for thale Sonvuitibility, or for keeping them at Wor or atauy fixed value, Thoy aro a legal. tender, wud hence it is that their deprecia. sion {fe 8 standing menace ta every per. gon who owns apy property, who has a dollar deposited in the savings banks, who aelly goods on cawdlt, of who lends money to his neighbor. ‘This is not a nation of paupers, This is n nation of Inborors and | producers, ench man striving to produce an- | tually something more than ho expenda, Tho Inborers—tha men who work for daily, weok- ly, or monthly wages—have on depoait of thoir savings a thousand millions of dollars. ‘Theso are not the rich men nor the blonted bondholders, ‘Choy have combined their amall savings, waiting until each twnau’a share shall have so acenmulated that he can uso it independently of the othors, Tho paper currency is not at par. It hag ono value to- day and anothor to-morrow. No effort is mado and no plan proposed to give thix cur. reney a fixed value either nt par or at any other rate, This oxisting uncertainty is aggravated by the constant effort to hare the amount of this cnrrency not only donbled in the first instance, but in- creased indefinitely, ‘Tho thoueand millions of dollars in tho savings banks aro now worth one hundred and fifteen millions below their professed value. Next week they may bo worth a hundred millions leas than at present. ‘There is no action taken or proposed to ro- strain this depreciation; on tho contrary, thero jas threat thnt this prosont uncertain yalue shall be further reduced, wo that, in- stead of fluctuating between &0 aud 10 cents, it will stragglo np and down betwoon 50 nnd GO cents, ‘This ig, o contost between the honest, thrifty, producing classes, who are by saving ariding to their small accumulations, and ‘tho dishonest, bankrupt, gambling speculatera. The one class who live by labor aud accnrnulate by industry and thrift want monoy with o fixed value,— honest money. The otber class want cheap monoy,—money so chen'y aud abundant that it can bo had at 50 cev.ta on tho dollar, with which to carry on the, vocation of gambling and robbing undor tlys protection of the Legal- ‘Tonder act. It is against this doprociated monoy with its Auctuating valu a, and this menaco against tho proporty and. savings of the producors, that the men whr) advocate hard money pro- test; and it is to. put an ond to this condition of things, and y estoro fixed values, that they claim that the currency shall be advanced to par, THE LEGALITY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE, ‘The decis',on of tho United States Suprome Court on aa appeal taken in the case of Vin- atnta I. Mixon and Francis Minon, her husband, 73, Reesz Harrenserr, from tho ecision of the Suprome Court of the Stato of Mise ouri, in favor of tho defendant, satis- factori) y settles the question of womon-suf- frnge, so far as tho courts aro concerned. ‘The supremo Court has definitely and un- mist akably declared that the Fourteonth «Amendment of the Constitution dooa not corsfor upon woman the right to vate. The Court aflirms in the decision that women wave always bcon considered citizens under ‘he Constitution and entitled to all tho privi- leges and inimanities of citizenship, but in the adinission of thia general point the Court docides that suffrage is not one of tho privileges and immunities of tho citizen, oud that it is nowhore made go in expross terms, and oven further than this, that suffrage was not cooxtensive with the citizonship of the States ot tho time of its adoption, Applying these general facta to the constitutional amondments, the Court shows that the fram- ers of the Fourteenth Amendmont novor con- templated that it conforred tho right of suffrage oven upon the colored persons be- causo it invested thom with citizonship, and, taking this view, they framed tha Fifteonth Amendment to prevent any State denying them the right of suffrago becanso of race, color, or provious condition of servitude. Upon this point the Court said: ‘The Fourteonth Amendmout had already provided that no Stato should make or enforce any law wlilch should abridge the priviluges or Immunities of citizens of tho United Statos, If muffrago waa one of theac privileges or {inmunities why amend the Constitution to provent ita being dented on account of race, otc, 7 Nothing {s more evident than that the yroater must dnclude the lees, and if alt were alroady protooted why go through with the form of amending tho Cunatitu- Hon to prot part? Tho decision closea with the following definite atatomont : Certainly if the courts can consider any question settled this is ono, For nearly ulnety years tho people have acted upon the ides that tho Constitution, whon it conferred cittzouship, did not nocessarily cone fer the right of suffrage. 1¢ uniform practice long continued can settle the construction of wo important an instrument as the Cunetitution of the United Statos confesacdly fs, most certaluly {t haa been done bere, Our province ia to docldo what tho lew te, not to de- clare what itabould bo, We have given this caro the careful conaideration ita importanco demands, Ifthe Jaw is wrong 18 ought to bo changed, but the power for that ie not with ux, Tho arguments addressed to us bearing upon auch a viow of tho subject may porhape ‘be suficient to induce those having the power to make the alteration, but they ought not to be pormittod to influcuce our Judgment in detorinjuing the present rights of the parties Utigating before ne, Noargumont autowomen's need of suffrage can be considered. Woecan only act upon hor rights as they oxist, Itie wot for us to look at the hardebip of withholding, Our duty isatan oud if we find tt in within the power of # Btato to withhold, This decision, which was unanimous, and which virtually tells tho advocates of wom. on's right that they cannot obtain the right to vota in the courta, since the Constitution does not convey any euch right, removes agi- tation from ono quarter. It is tha last wo shall hear from woman.swlrage in tho courts, Ita advocates, if thoy wish to get to the polls, havo now but one way left to accomplish it, nomely, by legistative ennctmonts. But ns logialative onactmonts aro framed by public opinion, and og public opinion has alwayy been conaorvative on this question, and in tho largo mojority of tho States porsistently hoatile to it, ft is probably tho last we shall hear of this folly for some time to come, At Teast, it will roqniro an amount of labor to change popular op{nion which oven the most carnust aud garruloug of tho woman's-rights advocates will shrink from, Tho only com: pensation which they can obtain at present ds to take up roaidonce in Wyoming ‘forritory, whore they can vote to thoir hearts’ content, with no Tyrant San to ask, Why do you 6a? Tn criticising the charter decision, and tho record upon which the Supreme Court gave at, itia but falrto remember that the Citi. zens’ Association deemed it of great impor tanco to secure # daciaion of tha caso by the Court below in time to have it sinally deter- toined by the Bupremo Court at its present teria and beforo the fall election, If the Mayor and Aldermen could keep the litiga- tion pending in the Criminal Court until it would be too late to carry tho case to tho present term of tho Supreme Court, they would accomplish thoir object,—that of hold. ing thoir oftlcea beyond the time for which they were elected, The counsel -for the Citizens’ Association, therefore, first sought a judgment of oustor againat the “city upon grounds where thero would bo no controversy upon the facts, and no opportunity given to the Mayor and Aldermen to delay the ease for tho purpose of taking testimony and having a jury trial, ‘There grounda wero the failure to submit the want of # legnl notice of the olection, Both thona questiona ware decided by the Criminal Court against the city authorities, and from thoso decisions tho city appealed. ‘The question of actual fraud committed at tho election the Citizens’ Association did not attempt to try before the ease could bo heard on the other questions in the Supreme Court, because this question of fraud could not baya been tried in time for an appeal. ‘The counsol for the Association uxpected that tho Supreme Court wonld take the same view with Judges Doorn and Farwriton the questions of minority representation and notice, but, if mistaken in that, they felt that tho case would bo rent back for trial on the queation of fraud at the polls, It has been sent back, and that question is now opon for trial. ‘Tho Citizens’ Association claim that no time fas been lost. ‘The Suprome Court haa simply decided that so far as concerna the questions of minority represontation and notice of the olectiou, there iv po ground for ousting the city of the charter. Still wo are inclined to the opinion that the allegation of frouds might have been presented to tho Supremo Court innmoro striking form in the first plnco; and that, in tha next placo, tho Supreme Court might have taken cogni- znnce of theso allegations which wont to them in the shape of cross-crrors. ONLY TWO DAYS MORE, The Inter-Stato Exposition of 1875 will close its doors to-morrow night, and open them again only to allow the goods now dis- played to bo takon away, Buta few bricf honrs remain for sight-seoing. They should bo utilized. Thero are tens of thonsands of persons in this city who have not yet been to tho great displny, Thoy havo missed seeing tho Inrgest and beat collection of evory varic- ty of usoful and beautiful waros ever oxhibit- od in the West. Every mon can find his specialty there, If ho digs ditches, here aro improved patterns of apado and shovel. If ho paints pictures, horo is tho finest and moat complete gallery of American art that has ever been shown in this country, and so in the world. Botween thoeo extremes, what industry, what puareuit, what art ia not represonted in this microcosm? Thonsands of men havo lnborod to bring togethor this collettion for tens of thousands to seo. Tho first syllable of disappointment has yot to bo heard. Every visitor has beon delighted. The number of oxhibitors is nearly 60 por cont greater than it was in 1874. ‘The prob- Jom before the manngera has beon, not to find applicants for spaco, but to find spaco for applicants. Tho character of tho wholo Exposition is immeasurably better than it was Inst yoar or tho year beforo, ‘Io soe tho show thoroughly is to gain an education. To- day and to-morrow are tho last days, Thero can bo no extousion of timo. ‘Tho exhibitors are only under contract t> leave their wares on display until Saturday night. Many of them claim the right to romovo them on Monday, and this right cannot bo gainsayed. .Tho closo of the Exposition, thon, is inovitable. It must be seen now or never, Tho attend- anco has alrendy beon large, but thore ought to bo # crush on theso last two days. r, It ia nu unfortunate fact that tho sales of paintings in the gallery of this yoar have so for boon very fow, Tho samo is true of Cin- ciunati. Tho genoral business depression is to blamo in both citios, but tho lack of buy- ers bids fair to seriously interforo with tho success of fature attempts to make really good art-gallorios n feature of Western Expo- sitions, Thero will be no auction, under any ciroumstancos, #0 that pictures must bo bought to-day or to-morrow or not at all. If Chicago is to be mado a gront art-mare, it muat bo by tho extension of liberal patronago to these yenrly sales. The paintings now on oxhibition nro sent by the artists thomselves, No dentors’ profits figure in tho prices asked, and these pricos ara in many eases 60 per cent below thoso demanded in tho studios from which tho pictures come, Thore has never been as favorable an opportunity hero to buy good picturea cheap, It should ba diligontly improved, SOCIALISM IN RUSSIA, The Russian Empire in Europe isa con- gerios of communes held together by tho force of habit and of despotism. ‘The village communities have been fully described by Sir Henny Marg, and tho description is repcat- ed by another writer in tho last volume of the Cobden Club Essays, ‘Taxation and Municipal Government.” Each village holds its land in common, In some of tho villoges tho yield of tholand is held in common, In most of them tho soil is distribnted every fow yearn among the qualified membora of the community, but tho title to it remaing in the whole body, and does not pass to the in. dividual. This system has been in forco Zor conturlea, It is Socialism adapted to circum- atancos, Its succeas has alwaya mado tho Empiro of the Czare o hotbed of Socialistia agitation. Evyory now and then the police mako a descent; papers aro aeizod; some wide-spread plot is discovered; ond another train of prisonera starts off for Siberia or the scaffold. But their places aro soon taken, Trint follows trial, but plot treads fast upon plot. Tho Ruesisn Govern. mont is seriously disquicted at the growth of the Socialist sentiment, It has good reason to bo so, if somo Iste nows ig truco, Some months ago, a number of conspirators wero arrested, tried, and sontenced, The proceed- inga wero kept strictly secrot, but o papor has recontly beon published which purports to bo survoy of tho internal situa. tion of tho Empire, propared by the Puplic Proscoutor, and submitted, during this trial, to the Judges. The London Spectator says that tho intrinsic evidence is 80 strong that there seeme tobe little risk in accepting the document for what it purports to be,—a painstaking and confidential state- ment, from the Government point of viow, of the scope, object, and means of tha revo- lutionary Socialism which for many yeara back has engaged the notico of the Russian polico, and which has developed to an extont that demands the most serjous solicitude of the Government,” 12 this hypothosia bo granted, the groat importance of the paper is plata, Tho report states that the Socialists aro carrying on an active propagandism among the middle classes, and that their doctrines are alluring numbers of young women and young men, The evil has firm root in all but throa of the forty Departments of the Empire. Tho organization of tho Socialists is so perfect that the Government despaired of discovering all tho “circles,” While the middle classes form tha backbono of the con. spiracy, every class, from possant to Prince, da Involved in it. Its purpose is to await the Ocourrence of war with Germany, and then, when the army is on the frontier, incite an insurrection in behalf of the reorganization of society and tho redistribution of property, ‘These, bo jtremembered, purport to ba tho views of the Russian Government. They uioulion of minority representation, aud the } slow thatthe force of the Boclallat move. niont in that eonntry has hitherto been great. ly nnderestimated, and that tho supposed atrengthof tho Russian Empire may be aome- thing of a sham, Tho Ohio campaign Ia attracting attention not only in this country but alao in Europe, from {ho Importanoo of tho financial inauce involved init, Among other uglish papors which aro discussing thia campaign {a the London Stand- ard, ono of the most inflaontiat paporn in Eu- gland, which gots tha fsaucu involved before its readers ion the following graphic and concive inannor : rom Ste political consequences, this inflation movement 14 of cumous Intorenl to the etudnit of pol- itica, a9 well aa ta the political ecomoraint, Jt xhotrn the extraordauary vitality of the Jaitacy ttpon whieh Law's Jamous schemes were daaed, and rf tltuatrutes the 1n- ‘eonupetence of the ordinary’ pudlte, even in a country where mpular education te widely dipuaeth, to unter Hand the plaineat economical principles, | Uhie, spita- tion clearly baa fts root in ofalse analogy. Becnitro an tndividaal pernou, with plenty of money tn lds pocket, 18 ablu to buy what ho likes, It {a aupposed Liat A nation can do theaame, and hence it (4 argued that tho way to make tho country Jronperoun tn 10 provide St with plnnty of currency, “The apacific is so mingle, Atta to bo regretted thot it 4s not aifielent, But onu would mippone that an error so glaring could not main- tain tle ground after thy Sret ciuar expoaure, Obviota- ly there fs no real analogy belwonn an individual aud B nation. Iftho nation, indeed, posecasea a yreat stock of gold and allvor, by parting with that atock it could ly tho tea and coffee and brosicloth ita neoplo required. Hut to get the gold und ellver {t would have to expend much Inbor in mining, or elga it would have to sell iarge quantitien of tts goods, In elthor caso the gold and sliver were obtained bs iabor, and labor in agriculture or mantifactnroa would produce eommads- flea which, when exported, would buy tha tas, coffer, and brosdcloth just an woll, But it ts not gotd and silvor which tho American inflationtnta want. On tho contrary, it Issinply paper. Now, paper toney will not be takou in forelyn countrice, and, thereforo, {6 Maeless for incrossing the wealth of the country ‘by Importation, ‘The only effect, in fact, of a preat wane of iicuntertiote paper money in the United Stuter nore, would be fo ratse (he nommaé price of almoat every sate- oleartiete, 1tin quite olear that if avery person in the United Staten were to bo presented with » dollar to~ thoy would b@ no richer than they were before, doilate could be Iaid out ouly in buying the oods {n the country, and tho printing and treuing of fiite of paper would ot incronee. these, "Every oan snd wouian Suding himself and horrolf in possesion ofa now dollar would go tuto the market to purchaso, and thelr natural competition would run up prices, would doutle, ot moro than doudlo, thoso things evers- oily would like to have, and altghtly raiso tho pricea of thono for which the demand only slightly increased. Injlation, therefore, tf Just, would do nu good. But f, inatead of being ahared equally with the whole popula tion, a smtnority ao? posacation of the new doflare, they teuuld be enriched at the eznense of the mass of the peo- ple, tio tould find that they had to pay a targer price than before for ail they neeled, and world not odtain ‘more nivney to pay it with, To this caso {aflation would ‘work injustice, It would stem that tt ought to be oasy to convince Amorican Democrats of truths 80 plain, Yot wo reo that they aro proving false to their princt- ples and threatening to wreck their party under the influence of a fallacy that sppeara too potent to decotvo ® reavonable ma a Tho Inferior ia wrestling with tho question of tho Bible in tho public schools and tho re- cont action of the Board of Education in ox- eluding it from them, Tho discussion is a little crooked and very ourioun, growing out of tho fact that the Inferior has two editors, ono of whom has not taken the oxclusion to boart at all, whilo the othoris uncompromisingly opposed. toit, As it was noceesary for tho Interior to taka somo position in tho mattor, and ag it would not look woll for ono editor to take ono position aud the othor antagonize it, tho two havo ovidently compromised and producod a joint article, in which evidently both of them havo joined as far as thoy could without getting too closely on each other's toos, For inatauce, one of tho editors thinks that the Board would havo beon justified if they had taken such a position as this; ‘The Dible has long been sasocinted with our system Ofeducalion, Ittethe book which, whother rightly or wrongly, haa molited all our institutions, It is held By avast majority of tho people to be tho Word of God, and tmportant ana fector tn alt ight education, We do not thing tt shonid be retd ax a vart of the open- ang exercises of the schools, but, before wo tako action upon a quastion which involves #o many intorcata of consclenve und religion, we will submit the question to those whoso servants wo uro, And thon the other editor takes his aby at tho subject, and dolivers himself as follows: ‘Their action may bo designed as the beginning of set purpose on the part of those who believe nothing tocut ollour national Ltstory louse from ita glorious past, Jn which it acknowlodged as 9 primo patriotio duty the instruction in religion and morality, and to consign us toa thoroughly godless futuro; todo thia by Grat taking the Bible from tho schools, then God trom the course of education and all moution in tho teal-books, and thou the name of God from all public documents, the oath tu His namo from our atatuto- books, tho Sabbath frown our civil code, and gonerall to Iuxugurate on Americun soil the wrecking expori- ment of French eneyclopwdlate,—thin fe a povelbla ox- planation of the animua of tho Board of Education in throwing the Bible from the schools without notice and without reason (7). Each having sung bie little wolo, thoy thon Join in the followlog duot : Church and Stato should indecd bo forover kopt apart in thia country, Soctarianism phonld recelve no favor from Governiaent, No form of worship should ‘be prescribed or supported by the State, Freedom of conscienco should forever bo guaranteed, But tho Aistory of this land og it stands related to roligion ¢an never bo disowned, The principles of roligion have permeated all our inatitutions, and they cin novor be tuken sway, Thole light in scattered through all our systems of education, and they ean never be ob- scured. With thia glittering genorality, which moana nothing in particular, the two editors close thelr diacussion. Meanwhile, tho readors of the dnicrior ore asking the question, Does tho Interior favor or doos it not favor the exclusion of tho Bible from the public schoola? To thia queation they ara entitled to have = categorical answor. —_——_ Tt boging to look sa if Brother Moopr was gtowlpg fautidious, Ho baa atated to a Chicago clergyman that bo la averse to coming hora bo- cause the Jnferior bas printed an article or arti- clos prajndicial to him. Aud vow he hae an- nounced to a reporter of the New York Tribune that bo shall not begin tho work in that city bo- eanso there fa nota hearty unfon among the churchoa of difforont denominations. He furthor atated : Our uimiatobeip tho mintatern: they nave been walting for us to come and begin the work, claimin, thot wa shall havo « unlon of the churches after we ga hora; bub this te not our part of the work, What wo want is a certain amonnt of pre tory work dona by tho resident miniaters betore we begin. ‘There la not that hearty union in Now York that wo want, aad It may be that we shall not begin our work in’ elthar Brooklyn or Philadelphia, Brother Moopr found no difficulty in working in England with roligions papors printing artlolos which wore prejudical to iim and without any hearty union of the churches of different donomtuatlons. It ho waite until the latter result is secured, we foar he may never commonce his work. Wa hope that bis Engliah success hag not tarned his bead. —____-___. The population of the State of New York. by the census of 1875, 19 4,910,004, againnt 3,891,777 in 1805,—n0 Increaes of 1,074,827 in ten yeara, The population by the Federal consus of 1870 was 4,983,579, The following table shows the population of cities in 1875 and 1865 + = aa 668 r3 235,205 Tor 414,068 ‘Phe total increaso in 10 cities le 869,207, leaving only 215,530 as the incroase of the reat af the Btate. ——-—____ The interior juin & ener! with the Rev. Dr, Goopwin, It will bo romombered that, at tho recent naoeting of tho olergy, Dr. Goopwix stated that Mr, Moopy was deterred from com- ing to Chicago dy tojurions articles printed in tho Intertor. It is now denied by she Jnlertor that ithas printed eny guch articles, aud calla upon Dr, Goopwim to indicate them. Let bin auwer. If the Inferiorhas been guilty, we want to know it, that we may properly rebuke its wickednoss. If it has not been guilty, we want te know it alvo, ae Tux Tasmowa hea the spiritual Welfara of the Jnfertor at hoart, and does not ‘Wish 4.0 seo it misrepresented. aE ELC ny A Bt, Lou's paper remarks that “ @500 will not buy & St. Louis Alderman.” How mush will, towi? And why are &t. Louie Aldurmen ao doctora to keop still. mach better than other Aldermen that they afford to turn up thoir noses at $600 ? we PERSONAL . Gor. John I. Bovorldge fa at the Grand Py. cific. Ex-Gov, Wiliam R. Marshall, of St. Paul, isa tho Palmer, Vico-Prealdant Wilaon has beon warned by bb C, G, do Bt. Pan] and G. Castelli, of France, are at the Palmer House, Gon, Benjamin Atwood, of Washington, D.0., is a guest at tho Palmor House. ‘Tho Hon, William W. Bolknap, Secrstary of War, is a guost at tho Grand Pacific. J.D, Terwill, Becond Auditor of the Treasury Departmont, ia at the Palmor House. Mra. M, Mf. Tarnor and Mru. 13. Calvert, of ‘Washington, are guests at the Pal mor Hougo, Tho Golden Age bas suspended ; but thin is ne indication that the Groenback Ago is to aucceed, Horaco Bilaby, of flro-avgine fame, arrived ay tho Palmer Houso yestorday, diroct from Beneca Palle. Gough’e now loctura fa on “Blunders,” of which ho feola qualified to speak from expe rionco, The Rey. Daniet G. Corry, of the Binoker Streot Baptist Churoh of Utica, N. Y., in a guess at the Palmor House. Axon of Dan Voorhees has arranged to make an ostly appoaranco as Hamlet, The father might do woll ag tho Ghost. Gen. Josoph Jotnston only wishos the re Port that he lias boon invited to take command of tho Khodivo'a army woro true, The Rev, John 8. Glendenning, of considers. blo famo in Now York City and {te suburbs, an rived at the Palmor House yesterday. Motto for nowly-marriod people: ‘To have dono {s to hang Quite ont of fashion, like a rusty natl, Tn monumental mockery. Jndgo John F. Dillon arrived at New York | yostorday from Europe, and will opon the United Btates Circult Court at Dew Moines, In, on Tuosday next. Dr. Hopkine’ lecture to-day in tho audience. toom of the Mothodist Uhurch Blook ought to bo largely attonded. The subject will bo: “The Soriptare Idea of Bfan.”” Arseno Houssaye writes to the New York Tri. une, in a confidential way, that “France, which lends all nations in wit, loads thom also in sto. pidity.” Ho moana the atupidity of hor rulor, Obarloy Ross’ fatbor immodiatoly know that somobody was lying when ho board that bischild had boon found in England, and that tho man who know all about it wanted no money for his paing. Prosident Grant and party roturned to Denver from Southorn Colorado yoatorday afternoon, and will visit Contral City, Black Hawk, and Goorgotown to-day, and leave for Washington on Sunday. Obarlea Warren Stoddard has been commis slonod by the San irancisco Chronicle to make 9 tour sround tho world and write otters on the way. It was tho only meang they could doriss to bring him to Ban Francisco, “Tnover sot my mind to writin’ postry till two years ago," sald s young rnralist, tiltiog back in a grocery obair; “but the minute I tool to goin’ with that Johnson girl, by goab! I couldn't holp it."— Current dem. Tho Dotroft Post wants to know whor tho od- {tor of the Chicago Zimes committed suicide, Ithna soon tho story that a Chicsgo organist recently found an oxquisite lyre suspended above the keyboard of his inatrument, Santley, the favorite London singer, never Puta himself on exbibition in the windows of theatrea in which he haa engagements, If American artista were oqnally conscientious the @udiences would be emaller—and better. The last words of Nod O'Baldwin, the prize fighter,—"‘ Have me buried {a Boaton,”—bare ercated a good deal of amusemont. The Herald saya tho gianthas “Gone to moet Emerson.” Transcendentaliam ie invited to Lift up its over soul and rojoice, Tho Princosa Meroodes, the youngest dangh- tor of the Duc do Montponaier, whose betrothal to King Alfonso waa recently announcod, ia de scribed ag ** just pasted from childbood, full of grace and ingonnougness, ono of the moat grace fal porsonsgea who could occupy a throne.” she ia but 14. A Sioux City dispatch of last oventog contains tho following personal items: ‘The Rev. 8, D. Hinman and Gon, Torry arrived hero last night from the Rod Clond Council. Charles Aldrich, who has been with Haydon’a exploring exped- tlon in tho West tho past summor, arrived hore to-day. Gov, Pennington arrived from the Eat to-day, and loft to-night for Dakotas.” Little Joaoy Sullivan, of New York, who bas boon missing foreovoral weaks, and who it wis supposed had been kidnapped, hag been found. Tho child had climbod to the back partof® warohouse fillod with cotton-bales, end bad fallen in one of tho interatices beyond hope of Tocovory. His body was only discovered whsd tho balos were romovad for shipment, Proaidont Grant's exporionce with the Sundsyy school children in Salt Lake City reminds one of seonos at the eleotion which Br. Pickmek witnessed at Eatanswill, when tho Hon. Samud Blumtoy defeated Horatio Fizkin, Eaq, in & contest for Parliament. It will be remembered that, oa tho intereating oocasion reforred to, the children wore kissed all around, juat ae they wore at Balt Lake City by Prosident Grant. Jobuny dido't aqueal; and tho boys who wert playing at lynching let bim hang, though he kloked 8 good deal and clutched at the rope over his bead. They thought he was shamoulog. Jobnny was out down justin time; and the boys wanted to know why ho didn't aqueal, as lt wau distloctly underatood he abould, He mié he was too much choked, Thla waa near Knom ville, Tonn. Tho following obituary poem, taken from tbe Balt Lake Herald, ia thought by competsod Judges to bo child-like and bland: Alas | why should I ory tonday Yor one who could no longer atay ¥ Our darling ttle Hannah, ‘Tho child contd read and writeand spel Could aay ber *tablea” very well, And pisy on ma’s piano! Ont bles little Hannab t ‘Who plays now Heaven's plano, Amembor of the Chicago Board of Trade yoater> day picked «tong alken halr from his own coat and placed it uogoen on the shoulder of « friend. ‘Then approaching the victim from another quam tor the practical joker pretended to oapy ee love-token for the first timo, and, drawiag iter the same time Into public view, oxclalmesds, ‘Come, now, old follow, what does this moan? “Why,” sald the ‘old fellow,” somewhat takeo aback, bat suddenly recolleoting bimaelf, “*thac’s my wife's alr.” ‘Ta it, indead," re Joined tho romorsslosa interlocutor, winking elyly to a crowd of bystanders who had soen the performance from tho beginning; “then how did your wife's bair got on my coat?" HOTEL ARRIVALA. Sherman Houu—M. Ht. Hunt, Depere, Wis.; Col. Q, pron ODI 14,5 the rent Crawford, D ion Bateman, Galo "England; Col. J, By tun and. Col, H, Pip i, Fuuchard, Milwaukeo; Frank 2 {1'B, Hopkins, Pvoris ; Prof. uisiana burg: Oob Manafleld, Califurnis+ F, A, Wing, Geloaburg W. M, Oatittony ‘Budalo.:,.duruner souser D. B Canfield, Philadspbt Beck, Englauds Jobe B, Joyce, Cinclaua in, Cin di Webster, Ne Ireland... Palmar. hi javille.; We a. igenlineots Kalamsex00; Col, ¥, J." March, Hilladale; ©, A. Deweys Edward 8, Winchester, Boston; B, ¥-) Winslow, dt. Louls; George 31, Ellery, New York: Ob) R, Dicklusan, Bloomlugton ; George 0. Mairtantty 3 ne cgi fara Muruy, Putabirgy “tosriaa it Beg,” Beaton nd PacifcG, 8, Eidredgo, Ottawa’ Boones, Eo land ; HL, ‘9 Moston t J. 4 “Detroit; Ts : ie, Hostou t Ts nd; 3, 0. oN 8, Fay, Bostons Ay @ stalk, Oe BE whan hie Louls; Pes Greaves, Bagla at H hk vd Richate oll,