Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 5, 1875, Page 4

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EW OTIOAGO TITATRC—Clark street, hetween R A e, Enigagetuont of Charloita Thomi~ aon. *Jane Eyre.” ADELPTI THEATRE—Deathorn sirest, cornar Mouron, * Lispet.” MCVICRER'S THEATRE--Madison street, betwern Destborn and Atate, Logagement of James Lewid, “ Tho Big Honanzs," HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph strcet, hetween Clarkand laSalle. Esgsgonient of the Californis Minatrols. WOOD'S MUSETM-—Mouroo slrcat, between Dear Born and Btatn. Afternoon, * Tho Marble eart Evenlng, * Unclo Tom's Cabln,” SOCIETY MEETINGS. WABHINOTON CHATTER, Yo, 4%, T A, M,~Tegu- 1ar Convocation thin (Frids 7:30 for bus. sness and work on tbo M. M. Degree, ity order of WML E I, FROWBIIDAL, Bec'y, CIHAS, 5. ORIENTAL LODGE, 3, A, Foand A, M.—Stated Communication ihia (Friday) svening at 7:30 o'vlock, for busuces aud work on the 3d Degree, By order of the Master. * E, N. TUORER, Boc'ys COD LIVER O11, AND LIMU.—TITAT PLRASANT and sctits sgant in tho care of All consumptiva ermptoms, ** Wilbo J;mwl'm:l’ nl. l'ln’m'l}allll ”I';LUHA:‘. b«:;lflmfi aa nd fn medical practice. o e A WALDH: chemtst m&» Chigagy Cribune, Friday Morning, November 8, 1875, At the Now York Gold Exchanga yesterdny @reenbacks opencd at 87, declined to 66}, and closed at 56, So far from being crushed ont by Turkey, 1ho insurrection in Bosnin and Herzegoviun shows signs of healthy vigor. The military fendors in those provinces have taken the preliminary steps toward proclaiming & na~ tional government. Bomo interesting figures, showing what it costs to maintain some of the important do- partmonts of the United States Government, are contained in the report of the Fifth Auditor of the Trensury, an outlino of which is given in our Washington dispatches, — e Reckoning in all the fraudulent voles east in tho city, CLeany, Opposition, defeats Nzsox, Republican, for County Commis- sionor by 592 majority, The vote was : Apparent majorily for CLRARY, ... The majority for MuLLoY over JoNEs is re- ported st 1,846. Had it not been for tho frandulent votes polled by repeaters, NeLson wanld bo elected by a handsome majority. It is altogethor unlikely that the defeated Devil-Fish candidates will raiso tho question of illegality or informality when the Board of Canvassers moet to make the official canvass, Thoy would have everything 1o loso eund nothing to gain by such a course. It is unquestionably true that 99 out of every 100 illegal or frandulent wotes cast in Cook County last Tuesday were for the Devil-Fish ticket, and that the frauds or irvegularities of election judges were whol. ly on that side. Tho question wmay be raised, but not by the Opposition. 'The closeness of the vote in Now York and ‘Wisconsin still leaves an opportunity for the Democrats to elaim & victory. From Wis- conein our advices indicato tho eclection of Lupworox snd a portion of the Republicon Btate ticket by o small majority, and tho olection of & Democratic candidate for Btate Treasurer, In New York also the correct ro- Lurns are not all in, and the outlook is not so encouraging. The Albany Eeening Journal, one of the leading Republican newspapers of the Stato, concedes the success of the Dewmo- cratio Btato ticket by about 8,000 majority. Recent cablo dispatches roviewing the bresdstnfls trade in Luropa hnve referred briefly to tho poor crops in Russin as being likely to affect tho markels to s greater or less extent, Late English papers give o far gloomier pieturo, declaring that thoprospecta in Russia for the coming winter aro really alarming, and that famine is feared in tho agriculturnl districts, It is said that not only the cereals, but root crops of nll kinds, areal- most o total fuilure, and that this condition of thinge is found not in widely separated localities, as has been the case in former years of searcity, but thero is n general com. plaint of loss of crops throughont {h Eem. pire. Wo publish this morning the fall text of an oplnion by tho Hlinois Bupreme Court in the caso of The Poople va, The Chieago, Bure lington & Quincy Railroad—a case involving the question of the power of the people, through the Railrond and Warchouso Com- ‘missioners, to carry into effect tho provisions of the law regulating and rostricting the rotes to be charged by railroads in this State, ko opinion of the Court reverses tho judg- auent of the Court Lelow on purely technical yoints, nnd the victory is on the side of the Railrond Company to this extent only. The troubla oerns to Lave been that of defoctive declarations by the prosccution in the Court below, but the opinion, though mot dealing with that question spocifically, assumes the constitutionality of the stutute under which the action was bronght. —— The Chicago produce markets wore rather slow yesterday, oxcept in provisions, Bless pork was active, and 300 per brl higher for Ffuture, closing at $21,00 for new, and $19.35 seller the year. Lurd was guiet, closing at #12.60 per 100 1ba cusk, aud $12.17)@12.20 soller the your, Mcats were in good demand aud firmer, ot 8]@8}o for part salted shoul- ders (boxed), 11§@11}o for short ribs do, and 12¢ for shiort olear do. lighwines were mors active und steady, at $1.13 per gatlon, Lako froights were less active snd strong, at 6l asked for wheat to Buffalo. Flour was quict sud casier. Wheat was quiet and sieudy, closing at $1.074 cash, and $1.07§ seller Do- cember. Corn was rather quict and easier, closing at 52fe cash, aud £03c for Novewber, Oats were activo and casier, closing &t B0jo cash, and B8lo sellar December. Iiyo wai TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: IFRIDAY, Faut at 66@6cle. Barley was nctive and highier, bt closed weak nt 8f}e cash, nnd fije for Deecmber. Hogs were active and closed slrong at 1015 wivance, Sules nt LU0@S 00, Tho cattie teade was «ull at lower prices, Sheep were fairly active ond michanged. One bundred dollara in gold wonld buy #115.00 in greenbacks at the close. Taking the whalo clection into considern. tion, the most raseally and disreputallo performanco wan the voting of the unnaturalized paupers and idiots at the Poor-llouse, The Ring members of tho Board of Counly Commissionera estab- lished a panper procinct at the Poor-Honse in the little Township of Norwood, which is on- Iy 2 miley in extent, and which eannot poll 125 Jegal votes. A second precinct wng mot needed except for the purpose of facilitating the perpetration of frauds In the othur precinet, three-fourths of tho voters are Republicans, It was to pre- vent them from ohallenging tho unnatural- ized ponpers and idiots, and guardivg ngainst ballot-box stuffing, that Kismenty arranged (o have o pauper precinet all to himsclf, where no self-supporting citizen resided to detect or prevent the intended swindle. e retnrns the following vote from his precinct: Votes for Huck, 7; ditlo for KeELEY, 2 paupers for Hrsixg, 230! It is very certain that not to cxeced twenty-five of theso idiots and paupers were entitled to voto by law. In the other precinet, where citizons only voted, the result was : ek, 723 Keeney, b ; Hesivg, 16, It is high timoe that something were done ta reform mattera and things about the Coun- ty Yoor-House, 'Iho whole management is rotten and dishonest, and hay becomo nn offensive, pntrid sore on the body politic, THE GREAT RAILWAY COMBINATION. The now schodulo of freight-rates adopted by the four great through lines to tho Enst Las gono into operation. Wo thiok this combination & sad mistake, not only for all the raifronds concerned in it, but for the gen- oral intercata of the country. A year ago, tho Baltimore & Obio Railroad Company comploted ita direct route to Chi- cengo, having then a route to Baltimore and auother to Now York, "Its rivals combining, it was deprived of its routo to New York, nnd was confined to its sonthern line, The Bal- timoro & Ohio Railroad opened o new mar- ket it offered the merchants of Baltimore and Chieago a new place in which to buy and gell, Itoffered tho great Northwest an At. lantic port in which to trade, rolicving them of the necessity of dealing in New York. There was not a village in all the Northwest where the opening of the Baltimors & Ohio Railrond wag not greeted with intenso satis- faction. It broke the long existing monop- oly. %ut the managers of tho new roule seem to ignoro tho very evident fuct that the suc- cest and prosperity of that road aro bound up in the success and prosperity of Balti- riore. It is essentinlly a Baltimore rond, and when it caters for business to New York it operates as directly against tho commerco of Baltimore as does the New York Central. The Western States havo teasod to look upon New York as the only place with which to tende. In monny lines of import and of ex- port Baltimore is of greater convenience than New York, The West produces heavily in many lines of artlcles in which Baltimors Lins o Jarge export trado, and which trade is capa- DLle of indefinite expansion. Now comes the combination of the north. orn railways to charge rates of freight from Chicago to the Atlantic which will enable those compauies to pay interest snd divi- dends on a large accunulation of fraudulent dobts and watored stocks. The Baltimore & Objo Railrond Company was in quite a dif- forent financial condition, With a debt and n copital stock of only 28,000,000, scoured by a surplus for exceeding that amount, it was not under the necessitics which pressed upon companies having four to five times that amount of debt and liabilities, and with. out any surplus. The country was prepared to nccept it as a model company, to whoso standard and system of finance all other com- paniea would oventually be brought, if they expected to compote with this Railrond Com- pany, which opened to the fifteen millions of people of the Western States a now route to the Atlantio and alarge commuercial city as & now market. But the management of tho new routo has succumbed. It Las united with the other trunk lines and adopted their tariff of freights, thus uniting with them in an extortion from which the country expect- od that road to deliver it. Last wintor tho shipment of grain from tho West to the Esat was continnous, but the reason was tho comparatively moderate rate of froight oxactod. If tho combinntion expect that like shipmonts will take placo during 1hig year pnder the advanced rates of freight, they will discover tho mistake before the sea- son has progressed very far, The West is comparatively prosperous. The wholo crop has heen liberal. Monoy is universally abundant and oblainable at low intercst. Thero isno occasion to hurry grain forward, and to keep it in the West until navigation opens offers n large margin of profit when compared with ship. ments at the rates of freight estab. lished by tho combination. 'The power of the railronds to reduce the prico of grain in Chicngo by an sdvance of freights no longer exists, An advance of freights Lng the single effect of reducing the amount sold for nhipment by rail, The grain will rowmain here ot Chicago prices, and the railroads will havo to settle thelr freights with the puschnsers al the Enstern ends of their lines, ‘Fhe railrond companies may oxact higher rates, but tho property moved will ba of less vaungl}t.. Upon them rests the responsibility of piling up grain in Western warchouscs und running emply trains, Tho power to coerca shipments has long sinca boen broken, and tho West can calmly wait yntil traus. portation s resumed by the reduction of wolghts, In tho meontime, Baltimore, abavdoned by s own road and subordinated by it to New York, iy as remoto from and disconnooted with the West ayif tho Palti. more & Oblo Railrond had never been com. pleted to Chicag England never took Lindly to the neeessity of paying the Alabama claims, Sho cannot, thercfore, be expected to rajoice in the news that Franco may bo about to file u formal demend for an even greater sum. It seems thnt Lovis XVIIL, when put upon the throne at the conclusion of tho Napoleonio wary, paid 130,000,000 francs to Lvgland in settly. ment of claims for property owned by En. glish snbjects und destroyed during the ntiuggle, Articls IN. of tho Convention wlopted Nov. 20, 1815, provided that any sur. plus regining after all such olaims were satisled should be ropaid to France. Itis wdwitted that sowo sugplus did remain; the duly real question is its amount, I'he English put it at 14,000,000 francs, and tho French at more than four times this sum. It s paid that the diserepancy s due to England's having charged to this fund 1t of the cost of building Buekingham 1" nce nnd ecrowning Gronor IV, Aud it s nsserted that imnginary claims wero actually trmmped up and entered as paid in order to keep down the surplus. In any event, how- over, the figures aro sufliciently large. 'Fho 14,000,000 francs, with intercst from 1815, would amount to moro than 50,000,000, whila the French figures would make the sum dno nemrly 250,000,000, fHome years ago Lornd Lysununst nrged, in Parliament, the roturn of the meney, nnd the enly objection way tho wenk plea that France had not asked for it. I is now proposed to go through this chenp Sormality and see whether England will settle the hittio bill. TiL BTRUGGLE WITH THE DEVIL.FISH, It is well to reeall the obstacles which the citizeus and tax-payers of Cook County sur. mounted in the recent loeal election, in order to fully appreciate the valua and magnitude of the victory, It was, as wo said in advance, n desperate struggle with a hnge political dovil-fish, whose teutacles were fastened upon overy Lranch of the City and Conuty Govern- ment. Some of the clements utilized in be- balf of the Devil-Fish ticket may be particu- larized with advantage : 1. There were all the counly officers and their employes. 'The County Treasurer was pasticularly enlisted in belalf of Mr, Hestxo, 04 the latter, it was clnimed, had given Lim his place two years before. 'The Connty Clerk—a Communistio desperado, who would stop short of nothing essentinl to success—had packed his oflico with supernumerary employes at the cost of the tax-payers, that they might contribute of the publio moneys paid them to the cnmpaign fund, and give their votes to the *‘cause.” The Sheriff's oflico was turned loosa to do service in the campnign and on election day in the shoulder-hitting department. "The Coun- 1y Law-Departinent was use to misinterpret the lnw for the henefit of the men who re- tained it. The Ring in the County Board whipped in all the contractors, and forced them to give freely of their money and in- fluence, and to compel all their employes and Inborers to voto on the side of the Dovil-L'ish, Every department of the county service, ad- ministrative and ‘clerienl, employed all the ngencics at command in tho interest of the Dovil-Fish ticket. 2, For the first time in the listory of this county, thero was n special: precinct estab. lished for the voting of the paupers, idiots, nnd insano *‘ miserables” supported Ly the county, Those wrdtched tramps and strays, not a tenth of whom were legal voters, were marshaled under the leadership of tho willing tool Kiuperny, Warden of the Poor-House, who went through tho empty form of put. ting ballots into their hands for deposit in the box. Thus 239 votes were cast in the pauper procinct, of which certainly not more than 253, at the outside estimate, wero lnwful. Tho desperation of the crowd with which Mr. Hesizo allied his fortunes cannot be bot- ter illustrated than by the employment of the degraded and demented pauper clasy, sub- sisting upon the taxes of the very people ngainst whom thoy were voted, 3. All the barnaclesof tho City Government, from Couvix down to the janitors of the publie schools, wero ranged on the sido of the Hrsmvo ticket. No personal freedom in the oxercise of sulfrage was permitted to any employe, no matter how menial his service nor how poor Lis pay. All were compelled {o contributo a cortain proportion of their salaries for the benefit of the rotten Ring ticket. This infamous practice was innugu. rated for the first time in the history of tho city or county. There were feoble protests agninst it, but the managors of the Dovil- Fish crowd were incxorable, and the contri- bution was laid npon all tio employes under penalty of discharge after tho clection. It bas been said that, in_some of the city de- partments, s in most of the connty depart. ments, the number of employes was tempo- rarily increased in order to get additional con- tributions and additional votes, Tho city coutractors were likawise disciplined, and en- goged to vote their laboring men solidly ngninst the tax-payers on whom they live, 4. "U'ie police wore forced to give aid and comfort to the Devil-Fish crowd. Webeliavo that thero was an honest effort on the part of some of the Chiels to act fairly in tho fnce of the terrorism cxercised over them ; but thero was an undercurrent iun tho force, conse- quent upon the persistent packing of the rank and file that has been going on for two years, which wns entirely sympathotic with the criminal classes at thd polly, 'This was evidenced by tho refusal of the patrolmen at various precincts to assist the challengers in enforcing their rights under the Iaw. ‘The incident in tho First Ward where a challenger was sct upon, pounded, and at lnst stabbed, ‘becauso he insisted upon doing his duty, is a fnir samplo of the action of the polico in many wards, for, instead of arresting the bullics and would-be nssassing, the polico took the nssaulted challenger off to the sta- tion! Inoneor two precinets the challen- gers were denied all their rights, and the police refused themn any protection, but turned against them, 5, The olection-boards were packed with judges and clerks upon whom the County Ring thouglt they could rely to bring in the proper majorities. In only a few of the pre- cinets, where tho character of the vote was such as to preclude the possibility of swin- dling, was tho Republican party given any representation whatover, In a majority of the precinets, the judges and clerks were all of the Ring sclcetion, and the Republicans, backed by the more rospectablo Domoorats nnd the merchants and honest voters without regard to party, demanded one judge out of threo at each precinct, but they were refused. Tho Ring were determined there shonld be no witnesses to the contemplated frauds, Tho arrangenients were intended to bo perfect for repeating, for bLallot-Lox stuffiug, sud for falso counting, G, Thero was an organized brigade of paid repeaters, as wo have been credibly in- formed since the election, who had their Cap- talnd and Licutenants, chosen secretly, and whouo plan of voting was definitely lald out. ‘The number of wagous filled with men, going from polls to polls, furnished an evidence of such nn organization ; honest voters are not taken to the polls in that way. 7. Al theso various agencics were sustained aud assisted by the vicious and crimjval classes without an excoption. Tho gamblers, thieves, bullios, and roughs of all descriptions aud nationalities felt thut their licenseto prey upou socioty was depending ultimately upon tho vietory of tho Devil.Fish, and they ex. orted thomselves accordingly. The Jail, Bridewell, and Polics Stations were emptied of oll who could bo dischorged under any protext whatcver, and these villains joined in the proposed iutimidation of houest voters + NOYEMBER 5, 1875. in overy precinet whero thera was the slight- ent chance of sncecss. Such were the ngencies employed to assiat. the strong personal influenco of Mr. HesiNg i aned the powerfal conlition of forcigners which Tie hpd formed. That they were over come and defeated by the respeetable people and honest votert, i3 the most hopelul sign of the emancipation of our local Govermuent from the corruption which has grown up within the past two years, It has been de- monstrated that, when tho honest people clioose to come forward in their own defense, organize with awill, aud resolvo to put down any combination menncing tho municipal snfety, they may suceeed, 'I'hero ishopo and promise in this fact for the result of next epring's election, when this many.armed monkter of loewl corsuption will dispute the gronnd again with seareoly less power thnn it exerted last Tuesday. If'the tax. payers and honest voters will organize then as they organized in the recent clection, tirere will he no donbt of the result; but to defent the same crowd again will require the samo vigilanee, They will then bo laid low for many years to come, F.0W REFORMERS ARE TREATED. 1t i one of the features of Ameriean poli- tics that the public wan in offico who under- takes 1o make war upon ollicial abuses, and to purify tho public service, is certnin to pro- voke n personnl hostility which, rejecting all public considerations, aims at tho destruction of the reformer. Gav, TiLpey s just now an illustration of this trath, As o private citizen and 88 a Demoernt ho devoteda year andahnlf of labor o a complote unraveling of the Twrep Lusi- nesy, and laid that gront robbery bare in all its details before the people. In 187, upon the high wave of popular enthusinsm and gratitude, Mr. Tinoey was eleeted Governor by 50,000 majority, thousands of Repnblieans voting for hitm, and other thousands of Re- publicans declining to vote against him, though their own candidate, Gen. Drx, wus one of the purest and most worthy men in the State. But Mr. TiwpeNy was not content with his lanrcls in the Twerp cose. Ho dovoted Dhis timo and nttention ns Governor {o an investigation of tho rascally system of contracts for re- pairs on the Now York canals, and exposed a serics of wholesnlo robberies extending over along period of years, and footing up many millions of doliars, Ilo called to his aid several leading men in the State, including Republieans, nnd appeinted them to collect the testimony and procure the indictment and prosecution of all the guilty, irrespectivo of party, Inthe course of this business Grand Jurics all over tho State found indictnents against large numbers of prominent Demo- crats who had grown old, gray, and rich in politics and coutracts; men who had made and unmade Governors; who packed and ruled conventions ; whoso “slates” were nl. wanys nceapted; who made Senators and As- semblymon, and bought nnd sold them like cattle, Theso men were, in their way, popu- Iar party idols, and, though doubtless guilty of long-continued robbery of the State, were uevertheless monnrchs in Iarge political cir. cles, ‘The most of them had possibly, in 1874, worked zealously for * 'l'1Lpex and Re- form,” not expecting that Trnory would bo- gin his refortn by indicling and exposing themsclves. At tho loto clection in Now York these in- dicted Democrats sought revenge. "They sought to destroy the inluenco of their prose- eutor by defenting the ticket composed of his friends, and sought to destroy tho Presi- dential aspirations of the Governor by the dofent of candidates known to represent his opinions, Substantially thoso raen can elaim that New York has repudiated Truory, and ospocially ropudinted the mavwho Introduced disgension in tho Democratic party by the criminal prosecution of veteran Democrats like Tweep aud the canal contractors, who hed morely appropriated to themsclves sev~ eral millions of the public money. ‘Chey have songht to disgrace and defeat the Dem- ocratic) Reformer in the estimation of the Demacratic party by forcing him to fall back upon the Republican party for whatever legnl support ho may need in the prosecution of tho canal frauds, It is such inntances as this whero the Dowm- ceratic party resents and punishes as trénson any official oxposure and prosecution of its own members by reformers clected by itself. Reform, in n party souso, means ihe expo- sure and conviction of officials belonging to the other party, and Gov. TiLbEN s a victln to his confldence that the Democratic party would applaud and sustain tho conviction of Democratio thieves, Tweep, Sweeny, Con- woLny, and tho horde of Democratio cannl thioves, aro avenged. They scomingly have destroyed the bright political future which Mr. ‘L'reoey and his friends had marked out for him. OUR AUGEAN STABLE. The Common Council of a city is its Legis- lature. The Councils of New Yorlk, Brook- Iyn, Philadelphia, Chicago, and somo other Inrge municipalities, lovy more taxes and spond niore money than the Legislaturos of sovoral States. Thoy not infrequently steal more money, too. No Ring can manipulate municipal matters unless it lina a subordinate lling,—;n wheel within a wheol,—in the Com- mon Council. Twerp paid a stated ealary to o mnjority of the mewmbers of each branch of the Now York City Council. ‘I'ho bargain was o plainone. In consideration of so many dolla"s a year, tho omployes of the Bosy voted ““yes” or “no” in strict compliancs with his nod. It is not often possible, however, to reduce corruption to such n charntingly simplo system. Dishonest Aldor- mon prefer percentago to snlaries. "They make more monoy and run little maro risk, It not infrequently happens that the main Ring iy composed of Aldermen. It was so in this city in 1870.71, when the * Nineteen” roigned supromo. It has been so in Philadel. phia, But in any event, tho clection of hon- est mon to a City Council or u County Board is 0 suro means of preventing wide.spread cor roption, 'The body which fixes tho rato of taxation and votes the approprintions s the body which wmakes stealing possible, And yot, year after year, people nomiuate and elect tha creatures of tho grog-shop and the gutter to this responsible ofice. ‘The people of Now York City chose sixtecn Common Councillors Tuesday, Thore wore three tickets in the field,—~Tam. maoy, Anti-Tammany, aud Lepublican, Of tho Tammany candidates, five are liconssd run-sellers aud one pursues that voeation without a license. Three ure * politicians,"— simply this and nothing more. The Graphis registers another as * J, B, Iasxin's clerk,” d siill another o8 & ** swill-milk ex-Aldur. man," ‘Ibe other five have veputable pur- suits, One is u physician, one a stablo. keaper, ouno s publisher, and two editors. There wero five respectablo occupatious rep- resented on the Anti-Tammany tickes, which contained fourteen pumck 'Lhe other nine nominees are catalogued a9 ‘' mmm. sallors,” “politicinug,” and *‘unknown.” ko ten Republiean candidates seom to have been, with (wo excoptions, respectalile persons, That is, cight of them havo respeetablo occupations, Ttap- pears, then, that of the forty persons nomi- nated to fill sixteen vacancies in the hody that largely rules tho motropolis of Amorica, only eighteen have n reputable purauit, “ CGuttor and grog-shop” must bo credited with the other twonty-lwo. What chauco of pure and intelligent government Las n munieipatity thus ofticered ? Tho responsibility for this stata of things rests in gronl mensiro upon the slay-nte homes who demoralize our politics. It is very rarely that a local election brings out a tithe of the “respectable” vote, If this s horenfter true §n Chicago, tho effceln of I'nesdny's vietory will bo mostly lost. 'The taz-payers of the city must control the bedy that levies city taxes, if the moncy is to be lonestly eollected and honestly spent. It wonld not bo difficult for them to do ro, If no party nominates a thoroughly honest man in n particnlar ward, n dozen respeotablo citizens of that ward could put forward a first-closs eandidato and get enough votes to elect him. 1t is of specinl importance that tle Com- non Council of thia eity shonld be reformed. 1t has, under tho charter forced upon us by ballot-box stufling at the April election, al- most despotic power. 'I'ho good work begun T'uesdny shiould e carried out next spring. If ny many voters do their duty, and if the samo rigorous gunrd agninst framd is main- tained, wo shall celebrate tho contenninl of our country’s independenco of British rulo in the very Lest possible way, by making our city independent of the rulo of the eriminal classes, ———— THE TURKISH LOAN. Tho proposed repndiation of its Londs by the T'urkish Govérnmont is in the nature of o righteous reparation, sofar as England is con- cerned, where most of tho loan is held, and in viow of the circumstances the meetings of despernte and frenzied bonadholders in Lon- don to consider their prospects, and thoir attempts to agitate the subject withont agitat- ing the Sublime Porte, are almost ludicrous, Nearly a quarter of n century ago, England induced I'rance to join her in dofending ‘Purkey ngainst Russia, and theso two Christinn nations helped torivet still stronger tho felters of the Sclavio Christians. 'They placed eleven millions of Clristinng under ho tyrauny of four million Malommedans, and compelled them to submit to robbery, eruelty, and pemsecution, which have been kept up with unrelenting vigor until the re. sult is onco moro o outbrenk of eivil war, Hud Russin sueceeded, the Cbristinns would liave been freed from the infamous cruclties practiced upon them by the Turks. Sha did not succced, and the com- bined force of two Christinn countries reduced tho Selavie Christians to u more gall- ing Mahommedan servitude than ever before, After the close of the war, the Euglish ad- miration for Mohammedanisin showed itself till stronger by the loan of an lmmonse sum of money—between one hnndred unnd fifty and two hundred millions of pounds—to the Purks. They have continued loaning ever winco, and lattorly in & manner which would suit our own inflationists, the Turks giving a bond for £100 for each £42 paid. These im- 1wenso sums tho Turks have squandered under pretenso of introducing reforms and strength- cning their army and navy, In reslity thoy have done nothing of the sort. ‘Thoy have devoted this money to the sonsnal enjoyments #o dear totho Turk. Thoy have built gor- geous palacos and mosques. ‘They have intro- duced luxurics of every desoription, They hiave cnlarged their harems and lavished immenso sums upon them, They have thrown away money in Indin, u Paris, snd v London, in the procurcmncnt of articles of luxury. They have drossed in purple and fine lipen, and wasted their substanco in riotous living, and now they are araco of paupers and cu- nuchs. No reforms have beon instituted. The army hns not been increased. No ma- terinl nccessions have beon made to their navy., No great governmental reforms have been instituted, 'Curkoy is to-dny no moro iu accordance with modern civilization than sho was beforo the Crimean war, and beforg TEnglish money poured into her coffers to on- oblo her in reality to maintain her supremacy ever her Ohristian rubjects and grind them down still furthor into the dust. Not ono of the promises has beon kept. On the other hand, instend of making roforms and of improving the condition of tho Danubinn provinces, she has robbed, and persecuted, and tortured tho Clristians, until at lnat they have rigen to dofond their rights, and this rising has already shown that Turkey is financiolly rotten and practicslly bsukrupt; that she cannot pay the principnl and will not pay the intorest of tho dobt; and that England will loss what she has loaned her, Upon the heels of this discovery conies the nnnouncement that Germany and Russin nnd other Northern Powers havoe in- vited Austria to frame a proposition to Turkey demanding the fulfillment of the promises of reform to tho insurgents. Thoy have no con- fidenco that she can crush the inswrrection, and an intervention now threntens, against which England and France combined will not dnre to protest. This intervention will re- lensu the Sclavie Christians from the im. mense annud tributes thoy are compelied to pny, a8 well as from the syste. matie plunder and robbery to which they heave bLeen subjected by the Turkish tax-gotherers. Turkey hns llved upon the revenucs and robbories of the Danubian proviuces, ns Spaiu lives upon Cubs, and, when intervontion comes, it will cut off her only source of revenue, and thus cut off the last hope of pnying any part of the English loan. Turkey is irredeemably ruined aud must collapse. ‘Tho Turk is destined to dis- appear beforo the progress of civilization, Between these two facts, which grow more and wore apparent overy day, the English bondholders must loso their money, sud the world will have little sympathy with them. Jlarper's Weekly for Nov. 13 sends outa large supplement dovoted nimost exclusively to an exomination of tho treatment of the “Ring” cases by the Court of Appeals of Now York Btate. 'T'ho papor is written by Avrvenr G. Browse, Jr., presumably a law- yer, and i certainly a scarching and fearless criticlsm of tho decisions of this Court. It chorges openly, and endeavon. to establish the charge by legal reasoning, that the Court of Appeals has uniforinly favore8 the New York City Ring, known generslly as the Tweep Ring, end alio the Canal Ring, against whom Uov. TiLven has made war at tho sacrifice of Liy Prosidential aspirations. Thero is neither sufMoient familiarity nor sufficient interest hereabouts in tho datails of these cases to follow the logal argu- ment, but tho final point made by AMr, Bsowne is wortby of consideralivn everywhere, viz.: That any court of last re. sort, orgnuized liko tho Conrt of Appeals of Now York State, fs likely to hecomo n cnbal, from which the peoplo lisvo no eseape, Tha number of Judges is only seven, an oxeep. tionally smiall number, and they are all ¢leels ed at the sume tiae for a term of fourteen years, The only restriction is ono of age, and that {s 8o liberal that it is improbably thnt any of the Judges will o rotived Lefara their time expires, ''hua tho present Court of Appeals in Now York was clected in 1870, and hns nine years of rorvico to run. If cither corrupt, or notably incompetent, or controlled by certain influences, what can the peaple of Now York lnok for? The situn. tion reems to justify Mr., Browsn's conclu- aion, that * sneh a Court is not a safe deposi. tory of tho supremo judicial power." ——— Thero was an intimation in tho Stuals-Zei- tung of yeaterdsy that the vote agninst Mr. Hesixna in certain precinets was either fraud- alent or irvegular, and wouald b contested in the canvass with n view to change tho result. Wo apprehiend that such n paragraph was writton for thoe purpose of letting Mr, His. 1va down lightly, and that thero is no rerious intention of trying to defent tho will of the people in the County Clerl’s office. The ex- pression of the popmlar will was obtained undor terrorism nandg intimidation, and in spito of organized fraud and determined cor- ruption, We do not beliove that those who have the power will dare to oxercise it to count Mr, IlgsiNo in on n canvass of the vote, Such sn aftempt would bhe more dangerous than anything the despera. docs havo over tried, The talk about tho suspension of active opar- ations in the Bouanza minea for threo or fonr months, in order to repair the damage dona by the flro, it is baroly possibla s a stock-jobbing trick of Massrs, Mackty, Tarn, 1'voon, nud O'Brex, the San Francsco mullionaires, who own tho great majority of tho shares, Up to tho tiioo of tho fire the dividonda to stockholders, after all the “aqueczes” had boen takon out, amounted to #1,080,000 per montl. Tha total losson of tho mine by tho five wora the dosuruce tion of its hoisting and outer works, which, it Is now atated, could bo roplaced in a couplo of weelis for loas than £500,000. Tho day after tho disastor the Lonanza shares shriink £35,000,000, and sharoholders in Ban Francisco nre baginulng tonsk whothor the susponsion of divideads talked about Ly Mr. Froon indicates that thoy aro to bo kquoozed an dry as was tha Dank of Califoruts by the Froop s O'BRIcy ring. Sl i = Daforo the clection, Mr. HksiNa's frionds enid thatif he foll short n fow thousnud votes in tho city he would make it good in tho rural districts, whoro his chio? utrength was to bo found. This was o wistake, Tho rural districts wore moro opposod to him thau the eity, as the voto shows, vizt County towns, Tlcer, County tuwns, KEE: Auti-Hrs1x0 volo, Lro-lesiso vote, Majority against him It thue appeera that ho did not recolvo quite one-third of the votes east in the country towns, 'Tho Ropublican majority agalnst him in thoso towns is 1,724, If ho had roceived the Krrruy vote #0'id he would still bo beaten in the country portion of Cook County by 300 majority. i s Tho Brooklyn pulpits seem to by uudergoing very radieal changes. The Rev. Dr. Juarin D. Fyyroy, pastor of tho Hanson Placo Buptist Church, who hes a happy faculty of gottivg futo hot wuter whorover ho goes, and whous eccontric~ itien Lave already beon noticed in theso columus, has at last resigned to save Limeolf from being ouatod by his congrogation. Tho New York Lening Post also anuouncos that tho Kov. Dr. Bronns will probably leavo the Charch of tho Pilgrima ou Brookiyn llcights and go to tho * Briclke Chureh, " corner of Fifil avenito and Thirty-nlath stroet, in Now York City, T'hero i3 another proacuor on Brooklyn Heights who gives no intination of resigming, altbough au odious charge still holds agaiust him, Tt is coraplained in bohalt of Mr, HgsNa that the Z'imes called him » great many bard uames, but the Staals-Zeitung tired bask such epithets as tho following at the editor of tho Zimes: ¢ Horumstilchor,” ** Diob,” ** Rtauber,” * Lum- penlinnd,” * Trotzbubo," nnd * Bpitzbube,” and otherwiue referred to Broney's moutal poculiar- itios as ‘*#pitzbuberci,” **Lumponkerl,” and ‘¢ Niedertrachtigkeit.” Nothiug equal to that appoarod in the Times, Lha Staals-Zeitung came out ahead iu tho epithiot contest. ———— The Texas Conatitntional Convention, which ‘s repoatodly voted downalt propositions for the ostablishment of froo schools, and talks about sitting m socrot session to got rid of nowspaper criticiam, is distinguishing itsolf by discussing propositiona foroverprohibiting thocstablishment of o Bureau of Immigration, to provide that all robatos on frofght ratos shall bo paid not to the shippor but to tho farmor who grow the crop. aud to cut down tho galaries of ftato otlicials to the pay of farm-bande. ——— The Cinclnuntl Commereial bas again cast its weather-oye over the Presidential field, axd this timo observos: ‘Tho mext Democratic toket will probably bo for Presidont, Baxanp, of Delawaro; for Vice-Presidont, MoDoNALD, of udinna, Buwrow, of Kentucky, ia the apparent hoad of tho Tepubliran’ column, suil the second placo on {he tcket will be aaxiggued fo the most popular may of tho Jurly in the Eastern States. e The New York Tridune, which of lato iss bpe trayed deep concern for Lhe wwelfarc of tho Domo. cratio party, bogs tho leaders in Congronn at the noxt session to forestall the Republicans, and got the currency quostion out of volitics boforn tho Presldential election, by tho adoption of *+ guch measuros that, beforo avother Congress ean bo convened by a now President in 1877, tho work of reaumption shall bo comploted.” During the redont politieal compaign tho Op- poaition party 1o Chicago were sadly in want of an organ. "Lho Post and Mail soughy the honor and tho profit, but thers was somo bositation, until the now proprietor—tho ox-Wardoen of the Penitentiary—wan introduced, when eo many of tho * boys " recognized him a8 an old acquant- ance that ho v locted as sho orgsn at ouce. sty In Missiasippl thero will ovidently ba petco on clection day biereaftor. ‘The nogroes will not 0 to tho polls in eufficiont number to consti- tute tho msjority, snd enough of thom to e beaton will Lo permitted to vote, and uegro funerals the dsy after will bo toss (requent. e The election in Misaleaippl wss attended by slight oarusgo. The nogroes scam to hava baen provailed upon to accopt the advice of the Vicks- burg Herald to keep away from the polls, and did not do much votiog to spoak of. —_— Joun Krrry, the defeated Tammany Dos, it ia fntimated, is to be invited to step down and out, and Joux Monnissxy, whose expulsion led ta the Tammany defeat, will bo invited to come in among the big Injuns, —_——— . The Vicksburg Herald announces editorislly that Congressman LasAR ‘13 on the white-live, and 8o is svery other true ang trised Democras in tho Stato." ——e Cnoany, tho nogro Sheriff who figurad in the white-liue fight at Vickeburg Isss spriug, bas found bis place t00 hot for him, and bas had to resiga. e ‘The Tanners' Aseaciation of Pennsylvania will pold ft« wemi-annual meeting st Harrisburg, Nov. 8and 10, The organization is unationsl ln its scope aud aims Delegatos Zrom all tho 1 vited Lo Juin in bhe dehiberations of tho Ay Btaten in tha Unton freqnontly attend {ta ‘Mest fog, A full attondanon particularly rnquufud this month, as soms meanures aro fy eoutey, :\E thon o connteract the combiucd deprogion trada. Wnanera from il barta of tho caungyg ara aligibla to memborehip, and arz orilintty .:.’ Liun, by —— PERAONAL, Tobert MotWndo i5 a tho Shorman, J. Bhodos, of Quobae, 18 at tho Pacifle, Tho Hon. IL Bush, of Jackson, Mich, tho Bherman, Tho Ton. Aloxandor Findiay, Wiy, fa at tho Tremont. R. (L Ingereoll and family, Europe, ato at the Pacifle. ‘The ion. D. Vanes and E. Mivwsankeo, nro at tho Pahwer, Col. Edear I, 11ill and Gon. Geor, {] Vi "ine. of New Yark, aro at the Trompry |~ "2 (. C, Wallior, ex-Uovernor of Virzinia, D, ¢ 139 Jurnotio, of Hichmond, Va,, Grand Pacitie, TR ot shdlnn, Just roturned trom C. Hibburd, of and + Bro at the Virginin City hns hor Mra. 0'Tenry, cent terrible canflagration started iy th of Kote Shay, alian ** Crazy Kate," Ar. We L T Mureay's ues pager, en Iule, 13 #aid Lo givo vomo remarkablo exh; bitions of bad gramuar ou its editorial pago, A Detroit mortiage-notice endy with the gin. gular expresston, prouably added bys w."m' frend: “Idoy thew futuro troubles Le httls one. ‘Ihie Iev. Wililam A, Roberty, Rostor dyfran, in tho Dioceso of Banger, \mrzrlf‘:: )?a tried by an ecclosingtical court on (Lo chiarge of beiug drunk on forty occanlons, Dr. d, A. Adrian, of Logansport, Ind., tho delegntes from the Unugx m-:eda.‘n “5,,,‘1'1 Modfeal Aseacistion to the International Med. fenl Cougrens in Bimseola, Uelgium, bay arrivod in New York trom Lurope, M, W. Caunon, Cashier, and I I, Siaplos, Asgistant Casbier, of tho Lumborman's Sationg) Tank of Stillwator, Minn., ond M. M. Clark, Inwborman and morchant, aro stoppivg for g fas days ot the Palmer House, ‘The fawa of Romo romarkable wo'non haye ra. contly been roproduced in plaater for the Albuny Museum, but it is sald uvono of them waa found to set weill. Thoy eould net Presorve perfect roposo for an apprectablo time, "Tho Rov. Mr, Kalloch, of California, formerly of Maesachusotes, thinks that there fs nomors s In going 1o o theatre than in Koiog ton church festival, hut that young men should not £0 to oithor whon their washing-bills srounpaid, The Momphin Avalanche cruclly sags: by pubilie wilt be paived to laarn that tho Henry trowns, hanged in $it. Louis lass Fridsy, was nof Juning Honri Browno, who L wnitten so much swash for tho Lastern iungszines during the past fow yonrs." s Rev. Mr. Windeor, & Congregationalist clergyman of Murebalitown, Ir., said in tis ser. mon skt Sanday thae Thoodore Tilton ought to Le i tas Penttentiary instead of on the locture. rintform. 1L v thougut that Mr, Windaor ig alightly prejudicad. It weoms tant Lord Lytton toft still apother novel in manuscript, not quite finished, whicl 1iis son is editing for publication, 1t {3 eald thay tha late Lord alvo loft o wasas of antobiographice al memoranda, which will presently make thely Aappearanco in & volunte, Tho Drooklyn revivalists ara fond of using technical wilizury torms without deflaing them, They proach s Gdspol which brought oot pesce, but a sword, upon the earth. Perhwps it may by s well to underatand that they * Hold the Fore * not for Batan bus agninst him. It I8 not gouorally knowa that tho sonre- cently born to the Priucoss Imporial of Brazl, Coumtesso d'iu, was delivaced by the Czsarisn oporation. 1ho dalivery was vory painful, and the Princess’ Hfe wan for a long timoe despaired of. The cluli is bow to the tirous of Drazil Aay Lo aot prove another Qnsar ! Aliss May Iloronce, whose sudden disapposrs anew irom Florence, near Northampton, Mase, way commented upon somie timo ago, has re. turped homo. 8ho denlos that she eloped with 3Ir. Tlobertson, and clmms that sha went to Foe gland as govarncsd for au American lady, The storv is not thought to bo thoronglly consiatent, Home attention has lately beon pard tothe long-noglocted grave of Gou. Zachary Taylor, on the Drownaboro® turnpiko, abont & miles from Louisville. Tao briavsand brawmbles have been cloared away, snd the broken walld of sopulchre have Leen ropaired. Aun effort is nuw bewg mado to havo the remafus of Gen. Taylor ro- woved to Frankfort, ftaaley, tho explarer, waa madly {a love wilh an sctiess namod Annje Ward, now decessod, when bo lived in Omaba. This is given on the autbority of tho busy Be¢ of that town, which nots forth tho fact that Stanley once offered & certain old inhabitaut 260 it be would sffect nn arrnngemont by which Lo could mary tho objuct of huw youngor affections. Kaulbach's famous frescocs on tho walls of the Berlin Museum wero intonded by tho artish, dt s clalmed, to foreshadow tho dostruction of tho late Napoleonio Bmpiro, Thus, the grand entry of Titvs [oto Jerusalem aul tho totterisg of tho Templo on lts pillars indleato the capture of Paris by Yon Moltke and the pulling down of thy Veudomo column by the Communista, Joaquin Miller, fu his Washington lecture, pid a glowing tributo to Walt Whitmsn, Ha eaid: *That mon whall Dve! 116 sball lse when yon mighty dome of your Capitol no looger Jitta its rounded alouldors againyt tho eirclea of time.” Mr. Miltor wislie to corroet tho advor- tisoment of his managers, whicl apuoupcoes Lim as un orator and a poct. ifo snys Lie 18 no oratar, It i3 now annuunced, #ays tho London Aead- eniy, that Vaudvek's long-lost * Madonna with too Child,” of which couutloss coplos exist in various parts of Furope, Liss at lags beon discare orod in the original, Tho preture hay formod the altar-pioco to thoe chiapol of an obscare German cloister, and was found thero by the Flemish pafntor, Goorgo Van Haunon. Ater sligd) rostoration, it ia now to bo goan ntirely unia Jured, and iu its pristine coudition. Bel's Life tolla of an oxtraordivary band & whists **0, M. and throe friends wero PIayiDé whiet on Tucsday evouing, Duriog tho surd gemo T. M,'s purtnor doalt and turned up the nco of spndey, Ou looking at bis haud ho found tho wholo of tho esmo smit, T. M. says be bst seon whist played for more than fifty yesrs, bul never romiombera euch & circumatance bappeo- iog beforo.” This band is peculiar, butit 18 nok £o remarkablo as the ono described by Pole, 1hs suthority on whist, in whicl A and O win evory trick sganst Band D, tho latter boldiug all the hovors in every plain sult and bwo honors 18 twnps, The g o shanty tha el HOTEL ANRIVALS. : Fatmer Ilouse—Yeler P, Frecman, Iows Ciy: go A, Thayer, Boston; J, G, Beunett, Lyt ¥. M, and Howard A, Taylor, New York; i Fistier, Pbitadeiphis; Fred Hickock, Colus A 4 bus; A, L. OrlMa, Kookuk; T. 3, Wagner, Coatiet tou, 8, C,; John W, Yaudevort, Vittaburg; 8, Douylast i 4 ), Qhap* Corbell aud Townseud Davis, Dutfalos ¥ B nan, Warbington, D, C....Grand paclao— s Summerville, Quipoy; Gen. J, M. UedAdh Ouumwa, 1n,3 C. A Biale, i B b ey, © Dayton, 0.0 Lowls Mo wriford; U, W, Foster and wils, ‘blfl £, P, Ay, Milwaukeas Willia Duranty A4y & Dhiraad, Macive; J, W, Waller, Norwioty - 3t Birony 'amd B, G, Caudy, Dotroits D, Lo I, o7 duu‘, Kaukakes. .., (remont uiux;b‘l‘no o, Iy Batt i 1L 0, Manuulug and wifo, U, k. Regpidu: Lo 1. Abboy, Now ) s torbroo 0a ¢ 6, 1L 3 i“" TFrazer, Detrolt; A. A, Struble, 1 Luffalo ; “deorys hepinan Ho the Hom, J, M. Male, g Col W, 1y floy, Freepor! s’ Hiakoy, Dhiadelpi F E: o ek 3 ck Island | E. P. e 5 o e Micholl, Bpringeld, .o ardur K e Ciinrida W. Hull sud fambiy, Calitorula W. 3, fig burst, Denver; Jobu Wintes, Ttgd N, 'A,l rru S cock, Galosburg bra, batierson sud 805, v