Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1875, Page 9

3 : THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER Ll, 1875.~TWELVE ‘PAGES. . TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, qwad dull at Thnrsday'’s prices, | mont of the United States notes in coin or | more; for stenmy machinery, 200,000 more, | against him, The letter was taken under | petit juries ia sufficiont to sccure a better Sueteey's dosertion of bie firat wifo, Hannter,’ firm, One hundrgd dotlars | their inuding in oki bonds. The latter is on Department | advisement, aud in a brief timo the Judgo | ordor of jurymen than wo have as an ralo if | was not all his fanit, ard that bo was sinaag TEST EE ee ear aiiine OFS gold would Lug $114.37} in greonbacks at | the easier and more rdvisable eourse, The totol estimates aro {| Advocate announced the unanimous decision | it Were properly construed and applicd. ‘The | against rathor than asinnin,p. Aftor thle dubloug 12.00 | the close. ie Lely Leditiony pee Last year tho appropriations | of the Conrt “that the Court adjourn from | terma of tho law are given in the article to | atatoment has beon provord it will he in onlerte i arte ae 1.00 Sr COLLECTION OF CITY TAXES. were $17,515,805; in 1860 they were $11,- | day to day until the evidence upon the sub- | which wo refer, In the xelection of tho 200 Justify hie illegal union with tho gifted Mans pe a are a aey ated api Yesterday was the day sct apart for tho ex- | ‘The Chicago Tinea 1s 9 faw unto itself in | 514,60, ject of onr inquiry shall reraiva that definite | uamea from the jury-list, which includes Gopwin, with whom ho lived during his fing Ae O26 | contion of two murderers in the vicinity of | most matters. Its treatment of the collec. Under tho head miscellaneous thero are | and conclusive shapo which shall be im-{ one-tenth of the legal voters, it is the A pedi itl Siviree Pony lier Gea rake New York, Hnt_one hanging took placo— | tion of city taxes is not an exception to the | some moexpected additions proposed to the | pressed upon it by the verdict of the jury, or | daly of the Connty Commissioners to 80 | jucal tio wan hereditecy na EE De cou that of Wirzaast Dezanes, whoin Anguat Inet | rule. It raya that the ‘Town Collectors have | netional expenses. Tho abolition of tho | until its nction—having been referred to the | that the men selected anawer the qualifica- | Gopwrm family, but this 11 no bottar excaey britelly murdered Capt. Lawneace on board | no authority whatever to collect city taxes, | franking privilego las not effected the pro- | War Departmont, with oar opinion that our | tions, and, if this were dono carefully attd | for Siezsey's immorality then the unfortunate fp schooner in C ys ‘Tho other con- | and advises everybody to resiat payment to | dicted economy in the public printing, for | precosdings should bo stayed during the pro- faithfully, it wonld not be difficult to excludo } brave folly of Gzonae Hexny Lewza anid demued murderer was Jows Dorax, who was | them. It would unquestionably be much | which $370,000 more is wanted; the current | ccedings of tho conrt of Iaw—shall havo | tho professional jurors, the dead-bents, and | “Gzonay Exot,” who ‘lived together as man tried aud convietod for killing Me. more desirublo to pay everything in the | expenses of the Treasury Buildings are to | been confirmed.” In view of tho facts that, | the hangers-on at the courts. ‘Thero is a and wife for sovoral yoarn without boing legally Kon, who came to hiv death whilo attempting | ehapo of taxes at one timo ad place, viz. to | cont $300,000 mora; tho Innd-grant railroads | ax Gen. Mancoce says, tha military ia subor. | suggestion alio tint the Judges wball be { Married, By Bootie Heenyat Ja coming to havn x to everpower und take info custody a umsen- | the County ‘Lrensurer, and Cook County | hove eaten up a good deal of the publio lands, | dinnte to the civil anthorittes, and again that | present at the selection of the jurors from ae aera a - pai paca Hogans to diste. Isr burglar whom ho caught in the act of | could very well afford to dispense nltoyether | but itis to cost $355,000 oxtra to survey | the offenica alleged were committed in the | this panel cf 200, aud that the selection be ® ¥ t+ Means Hon Vartw ol yrar at sama tate. WEEKLT EDITION, PORTPAID. Hncraps, per yeni up of Aye, pee the pewtage [a 1.5 conte a year, which we will prepay. Kpecimen copier tent free, Top revent dday and inte tavera fo fall, bret Post-Uftice ori: Daliy, deliver Daaiy, delivaresy Hu robbing his promises. Dozay vas convicted | with the Town Collectors nnd their assnciates | them this year. civit nnd not in the millitory service, | made in open eugrt whon thy jury panel for Hoeune to Ulncowae sv bie. st Godiand man, eailerre NE COMPANY, upon purely ciremustantial evidence, and | in the Town Boards: but this fact docs not} ‘Lhe rmiscellanconsaccount wants $7,200,000 | the Court has acted vory jndiciously | rctual servico is™imade up, co as to exclude | ‘Tho Jnter-Occan in an institution of decidedly Corner Madiron atrt Dearlornvsien Chieage, De | oy the day beforo tho date fixed for | change the law us it lauds, which authorizes | additional taxce, But of this$#,000,000 is for | in postponing action pending —_ the | men whoso names are drawn when they may | hoxgish propenaitics, or ome years past it THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE. his oxeention Gov, Tiupex granted a reprieve | the Town Collectors to collect the city texes. | payment of judgments of tho Court of Claims. | Tegal investigation at St. Louis, Any | bo shown tobo unfit, ‘The Judges can also | basenjoyed the poile of both tho city ant eee of one week upon tho strength of the repre- { Of course they cuunot enforce the collection | 'the total aviel for is 13,881,185, ayainst | other courve would have boon unsatisfactory | do something to improve the character of the 4, z ? iu + i 5 ‘Tae Citeags Wonuer Tareas for Des Aeontains | sentation {het new and important evidence | of the {ax on real extate, and everybody will | $10,534,857 last year, both to tho Court nnd to Col. Bancock him- | juries by boing move strictin their refusals to tho Proshtent’s Menage, Reports of tho Secretary of | Jad been digcovered. Both murders occurred | pny thnt tax direetly to tho County Treas | Public works, national and municipal, aro | self, and could have accomplished nothing. | exctse. In tho mattor of the Grand Jury, ee ee ene of Lard | i Angust Inst, and in both eases the cour | urer, Tht they enn, under Bec. 27 of tho | expensive lusuries. A million more than tho | ‘Tho first thing to bo sottled iu tho civil inves. | thero is a valuablo suggestion to the effect Gilles, nwt tae Hecze! eevles Teport, The proceed- | Of justics has boon unusually swift for New | Internal Revenue law, issuo a distress for tho | 91,:330,000 appropriated Inst yenr is asked for | tigation, If the St. Louis jury finds him to | that there be » special provision for “ntrik- dea of the Demo, anus and the opening sew | York, pervonal tax, and collect it by a snle of the | Customn-House buildings ; for arsenals, nearly | bo innocent of the charges preferred against | ing” a Uirand Jury, to whom ony of tho ; ari Cs given in fail, ‘ts Sargdatnasa alan ceeihead "inns | OTADEELY levied upon. Tn fixing the compon-{ half a million moro; for fortifications, { him, which we beliove it will, there will bo | County Board or othor county ofliciala aro to seth lereri pion He weneram ined lentes AU ae Se ae a sation for the work which the ‘fown Collect. {1,200,000 more; for “buildings nnd | noneed of a snbucquent military investiga- | bo presented. for indictmont. An it is now, addition to the general newr aud the Iterary aud mia: | dsyoon tho Administration and cx-Senator amiss % Peis Se . tt e o . 1 ; tuded in the follwing ti TinNDERAON, in conaeynence of the latter's | OM do for the city, it should be kept in| grounds" about Washington, $1,100,000 | tion, If it finds him guilty, it will bo very tho County Board selecta overy Grand Jury poof wood; Tha Ro mare, imiadvers siete Prosident in the | Mind that they will collect nothing but the | tore, which will not tend to rovive the lost | difiicult for the military Court to break iho | before whom the abuses of that Board are im Chieagn; Record of tha Whisks-Iting: | ANT Se Ween seemat as nevisting counsn) | PeTOMAl tax, and tho proportion of that | lusury of private Inndscapo gardesing; for | force of that decision and convince the conn- | brought for investigation. It is natural that peninncu a ats eae ee ena ae yee veh aie which thoy collect will depend upon tho | other buildings, holf a million more; for | try of his innocence. Whatever may be tho | there should bo no indictments. 3 . ‘ Sate : * i A taf ne ——— i Ciontog Sere | onulted in an otter relieving Mr. Hexprnsox judgment. and energy with which they dis- uavy.yardn, half aruiltion more ; and for im- | decision of tho jury, the action of the mill. 0 Washi Alinatel, taza Hugeeste Don further connection with the prose. | CL2fwe their duties. . proving harbors aud rivers, 314,901,100 {fs | tary tribunal im postponing its consideration ur Washington dispatches yesterday In Xe Teed tha Whikey Iting ia et ee tis, | Tbe law, both in the General Incorporation | nuked, which is €8,000,000 more than Jaat | of tho case ig timely and diseroct. morning stated that Mr, Dren, the District War Ohaptary Sup, |centign at 0 WOES: MOR a Se act of 1872 and the General Revenno act, | your! Attorney of St. Louis, who has dono such x An Historical and | ‘rhis determination was the unanimous ver- tanpintes that the Town Collect h 1 at 5: tt eed SPE EDA teas ange effective work against the Whisky Ring in Topographical Sketch 0 Mre. Moulton | diet of the Cabinet, all the members being | CMtemplates that the Town Collectors shal For public works the overworked tax-payer A COLOSSAL SPEOULATOR RUINED, tales tat hed to B W: Reply to the Lotter of Piymouth Church; The Triple | ind t hi Drety UE collect the city tax, See, 111, Art, VIIL. of | is invited to contribute $11,700,000 more The details of the ruin of the great German | that clty, telegraphe LUFORD WILAON, sunier at Cleveland; The Ku-Hlux tn Grundy Couu- |" one nund ny to the propriety Of | 1. Gonernt Incorporation act provides that | than last year, Tho total catimate is $28,- | speculator, Stnovsnena, utterly dwarf into | Solicitor of tho ‘Treasury, to know how things ty, Hl, aud the Iucord of otker Criminal Casts; The | this course, The view was taken that the C il elinll ti bef if yer jittons 3 wii’ | inal ie bs th Tati f Jax Gi stood at Washington, end that Wirson, in re- Vourbon Programmo nx to Souttern Cl no | the language of Mr. Hexpinson concerning | (tC CoUncH Kuni! pars an onlinanco beforo | 01 410, ‘The appropriation last year was | insignificance tho speculations of Jax Gounp, B county printing, worth quito a nico little number of thousands of dollars. If haa ouco moro re. cured tho publication af the county detinguens- tax-list; and, not satisfied with this, it seoke againto obtain tho printing for theegity, and thus chousotho Journal out of its ahare MY ** fat." ‘To reach this and, itis working to get the eup. port of tho Republican Alclormen, on the ground that itis the only aimon-puro Republican organ in Chicago. It bases this claim, cf courao, on the fact that itia.a zoslous oppunant of about alltho prominent policies of tho Ropublican National Administration! Ibs reasoning in this respect is somewhat paradoxical; but the J.17, -baby" must have prip in order to preaerya. ite life, and itis not particmlar os te tho meanue by which its anatenance is proourod. For such ‘a woakly infant, it bes an tinbeslthily-enonnons appetite; andits struggics for existence are, tu say tho loast, disgustingly ‘anpicaaant, —— hy of Nobra ‘We said, tho other dey, (rom private sources, : yi id: “I expect wo will all fall of Information, that au att empt was to be wads Coal Disaster in England; Foreig 204 | peogidontint imerferoues in internal revenne the second Tuesday of Septembor in each tho unfortunate Ratstoy, Jay, Cooxe, and | P!ying, Ba : pe to unite the Radicals and Lfberals of England Home a ‘Times der eds A earths appolutinenti: aud vadalieinietite. wea: intaled| T° fixing the nmonnt of approprintions for | | 'Thie Congress will hardly reapond favor. | other American finnnciers, whose operatioua | together.” As Mr, Dren has not yet been | ons pistform, an important: plank in which waa Story ne to John € the Murterer; Tho die ppain 2 e . > ; fh awartaatl ench fiseal year, and that a certified copy of | ably to these extravagant demands. we have beon accustomed to look upon oa | Confirmed by the Senate, ho nssumes that In Colorn Leaberatit ee bad eR ee such ordinance aliall bo filed with the County af - x - colossal. ‘The record of his life and his | tis reply indicates ho standa little prospect ‘the Fea | Gon thie question ie sizmificant. at proving | Clerk whose daty it iv to ascertain tho rato | WILL BENATOR BOGY RIGE AND EXPLAIN F | schiomes rends like a chapter tuken out of of being confirmed., Woe donot share the sp- Revert, Tho Geers | os asively that there is no lack of harmony | 84 extend such tax on “tho book or booka{ Sonator Booy has introduced into tho | fetion. Morr Srnovavena wes first known prehonsions of theso gentlemen, but if it amare Kpecth, The Sra Ce th He tof the Whisky Iti 4, Y | of the Collector or Collectors of State and | Senate of tho United Stntos a bill which au-| as a tencher of languages in tho United | #2ould happen by a combination of any kind eieeae ni ees pial Sea: St He narand that abe i lit ates eee eae county taxes within stich city or village." | thorizes the paymont of import dutios in | States, from which humblo atation he rose to | that they aro not confirmed, the country will special Wepartiuente Literature, The Fino Arty, dent and Secret ory Naisro aitelt hia eae ‘The following section provides that "the tax } grecnbacks, Wo have some questions to put | a place whore he dealt with hundrods of mill- be anxious to soe thelist of Senators voting jjarks of Science, Vanuliar Talk, Foreign Gowip, | sto and hoped for by the guilty and | °° sss¢ssed shall be collected and enforced in | to the Senator thereon. Our colusny aro | ions of monoy in every part of Europe. His against thom. It is possible that tho Senate Fashion, core he a sp rane mnre ae friends, $s . for off ae mA ‘ eapatad tho same manner and by the same officers na | open for tho reply which ho may vouchsafe. | visit to America waa short, and he next ny- | V7 take action in secrot scesion, but thero fabs an4 Ganon, Biel and Boule; Financial ead | na aver, s Stato and connty taser, end shall be paid | Your bill, Benator, outside of ite subject | penred ia London and afterwards in Berti, | 0 wave of Setting at the vote, and it wil : but it was not until 1870 that ho began to . eae Preacher cud Iity Wouderfal Claire se of the Similarity of Twi ditorials on the Lreeldent tobe reform in municipal government. It iv possible that wo underrated, at tho time, the neceraity of this reform. Jomx Stuaat Mitt has soveral uncomplimentary roferencos to ths municipal ingtitutions of England in tia * Auto. biography.” Ho speaks of the ‘aelfsh min management of local intero.ata by a Jobbing aud borne local oligarchy"; says that the struggle for mupicipal reform is # qticstion “on whiew there are strong private intuists on ono sil+, and only the publle good om. tho other”: and, furthermore, refers to “ munitipal elections’ ag Voutuerctal, over by the ofticers collecting the same to the | matter, demands our consideration upon two Sabserliers sould make an effort to have thelr sub- FUNDING THE GREENBACKS, Tronsnrer of the city or village." ‘Tho 'fown } grounds, viz.: Itis the first Democratic mens- | attract public attention as o colossal | S¢mtlemon havo done their duty in an able, | “not only ® pypparatory school for bribory at scriptions bezun at the carilest date possible so that Thero is one point which the Secratary of | Collectors, under the present charter, are | ure laid before the Forty-fonrth Congress. speculator. At that time he hed im- foorless, and honcat manner, and the country | Partiamentary elections, but an hobituat cover they may have the Congreasioual Record complete, 7 a for it.” These sayings are ‘weighty ovideiwe ct the nesd of municipal reformn acroas tho sea. _——e tho &reasury brings ont very clearly and | therefore just as much anthorized to collect | Unlors disavowed, it will naturally be taken AMUSEMENTS. emphatically in his recent report, viz. : The | city tnxos as they are county taxes, with the | as a foreshadowing of the policy which the pledged faith of the Government to provide | single difference that they can enforco the { Democratic party, in tho Sennte at lenst, Lee innperer stirs -aalroet, (Belyoes, for the redemption or funding of tha legal- | collection of the personal tax but not of the | means to pursuo on the most important ques- 7 tender notes. Tho act of February, 186%, | real (ax. tiou now before the country, ~-that of finances, whieh authorized the first isso of $150,000,-} Tha Revenue Iaw is equally explicit. | In the second placo, you reprevent the ister ph wud Lake, 000 of greenbacks was entited “ Anact toat- | Secs, 127 and 128 of that law provide that | Stato of Missouri, bound to Illinois by Biatteedes* afternoon ani avenlae thorize tho issue of United States notes, and for | the County Clerks shall determine the rate | many ties of interest and friendship. ADELPIE THEATRV—Dearhorn street, corner | M¢ Pedempition or Sunding thercaf.” ‘That Act, | of tax for incorporated cities within their | Bexron and Scnunz aro greater names than beurce, Variety entes Afternoon und | oy amatter of fact, provided for the funding | limits, and that such city taxes shall bo ex- | Roar and Cocrrctz, but perha ps yon and wrongs of the freenbecks, at tho option of | tended the sama ns Stato and county taxes. | your colleague may yet do something worthy ie ay piv taison Atreels Ueleeen tho holder, into United States 5-20 | See, 1:32 of the samo act provides for a Col-| of your place, At any rate, wo call upon ventug: Solid | bonds, bearing 6 per cont gold inter | lector's warrant to collect the soveral taxos, you, a8 the Senatorinl mouthpicca of Mis- mense sums of money at his disposal | Will not stand idly by and see them dismissed and almost unlimited credit, He was a | for doing thew duty. railway controctor in sevoral European States; | Readers with a morbid taste foratatiatics, saye an engine manufacturer and proprietor of | the Springfeld (Mnss.) Republican, will probs- three of the Inrgest iron works in Europe; | bly be interested in knowing that Massachusetts aheavy proprictor in Innds and mines; and | has bad the hooorof supplying the Spoaker dur- the owner of the cattle markets and slaughter | ing 10 years, all told; Virginia during 18 years; houses in Berlin, At that tine he was deal | Kentucky during 16 yoars—10 plus 18 plus 16 ing with the almost fabulous sam of $30,- Anan rae rea ents aan aR herred ; 0v0,000! Tho Frauco-German war dealt : : eget " himosevero blow in the gonoral depression cline, 6 years, enlace; Tenbensse, 6; New. York 4 and South Carolina, 9 aviece; Georgia and Con- of securities, Tho Roumauian Government | necticut, 2 aploce—t7 yoars in all. Ag thore aro The Cincinoatl Commercial thinks that the Texas-Arivona Railroad swindling achome wit not bo helped by tho election of Mr. herr oa Speaker, It says on that pout: It ia a mistake to arsume (Bat Mr, Keun ts the champion of the Toxss Pocido Ratlruad echer couse he was so generally aupjwred fu the Deut cratio caucus by tho delegations from thr xesthert States. ‘They voted for him beradse he was reyariri ag sound on the financial question, There ic nu avin pathy ia tho South with the viniogary schemes or tht indationista, They know what inflation of itty dcomable currency meaus by # aurrowfl excerlence, Ram WuxpaLt wan coneplouously tho favorite candi. he Aietnoon : “Lae d also refnsed to pay the intorest ithad guar- | pow 37 States in this glorious Union, wo arrive | ‘ate for the Speakership of Col. Trosas A. Sort aid Siser.” . A . 4 * 7 . f * ta c Hlver, est, The next issue of 3140,000,000— | and Sec. 138 provides that tho warrant shall | gouri, to explain and ‘defond your bill, to | auteed upon tho railways he had been con- | by asimplo proceas of subtraction at the thrille | Starts faba De private. epoe Mallen ‘Tho weet WOOD'S MUBLUM—Mourcy strest, between Dear | July 21, 1862—was mado, tho Sceretary | direct the Town Collector to pay over to the onswer the qnestions wo are about to put. Bore end Sete, oteeraly’ Atermoom ane Srcnins: | says further, under this same pledge,—that | City Treasnrer tho city taxes he may collect. | If, as we beliove, yon are treading marshy er pind is, that the holders of tho greenbacks should | Sec, 164 of the Revenue act requires that the | Jand, your reply will afford you an oppor- Eh ba Chieagy Gyibune, havo the privilege of converting them into | Town Collectors shall render a statement of tunity of gracefully extricating Senator Boor i * | gold-benring bonds whenever they saw fit. It | the city taxes collected every thirty days, if | from the bog. —= is true that this provision was subsequently | required to do so by the proper city authori- Baturday Morning, Decomber 11, 1875, | repealed by Congress, but in doing so Con- | tices, aud also pay over the amounts so col- WITH SUPPLE structing for them, snd Srnovsnena had to | log fact that 24 of thom have not as yet been poy it himself, This gave him another stag- | Tepreseuted in the chair. The firat Speaker, goring blow, ond for two or threo years ho | Muuumxnena, of Penosylvauia (elected April 1, was tossed np and down¥on the ocean of Feit candace cerananiE. at Cnn Ainance, now launching out into speculative | ont (1791) and Davron, of New York (1795). Stom- schemes and again contracting to meot the | rexnena was called to the chair a aecond time in prossure npon him, Last year he bentallhis | 1793, by the way. Sxpawicx, of Massachusetts enorgica,npplicdall his resources,andatretched | (1799), was elected by tho Fedoralieta on the his credit to tho utmont to retriove himself. | party issue, In 1801, be was succeeded by Ho established immense manufactories in | Macox, of North Carotina,a Domocrat. Since Germany and Russia, recovered ll bis old | 5d including his term, tho Democrats mines and iron works and bought new ones, cane eters renee Genes ee ek eae vera as Sane wey Ok list of names, we find three of tho trisyliablo sort—Muurexnena, Brevenson (1827), and Pex- tained advances from every bank and evory | sxorox (1859); twolve dissylablea; and thir- possible quarter, but at last the Commercial | teen monosyllables—Onay, Cazvea, Brit, Poux, Bank of Moscow refused him an accommoda- | Ware, Jones, Cons, Boro, Danus, Onn, Gxow, tion of two millione of roubles, and tho catas- | Bratre, xod Kenr. Of this baker's dozen of of Keun ‘4 = damaging blow to thelr hopes, aud domonstrates to them that they do not control & is Jority of the Dumocrats of the House, feeananiense See ananainan Hore ig somothing which, if it works ag sta.icd, is a valuable bit of information: | ‘The remedy for insomnia suggested by Mr, Fuse Bocktann tise attracted considerablo atteutioa, on account, at Jesat, of Its novelty, ‘The fact that oplaine in any form leava traces of thir intluerco the niat morning induced bim, ha says, to presavibe fur bie self—as he has also frequently prescribed for vtliene —ontons; simply common raw onfous. Tho well~ Imiown taste of on{ona is due ta a pecullar emiential vil contained in them, and this olf has bigly woporit: ‘whieh, in bis own case, Mr, DockLanp aven, naver fells, If much pressed with work, and frelivg an iuAbility to sleep, bis practic is to ent tivo or thre small onions, the effect of which Is magical iu prodie- ing the deatred repose. Such » remedy hos s great ad- vantage over the atupofying drugs conimunly rcvorted to for this purpors, and {a aven preferable fn the Uguor opii aedat anil chicrodyno of medical practi-e. ——_—_-+—— born and Sinte, ' Deberal,” Afternoon and evening, Would not your project produce sub- stantially tho following results: Tho Govern- ———— gress committed an act of bad faith ond was | lected. ‘This provision is materially tho same | ment, instead of receiving $160,000,000 gold 7 a tuilly of violation of contract. Such # re- | oa that rolative to tho county taxes in the | n year from customs, would get about the MENT, peal cannot release (he Government from iis | next section. samdé number of greenback “dollars.” At <==: | original pledge, which was only in keeping | Tho nimple fact is that, undor tho gonerat | presout the Sccrotary of tho Treasury is re. with the economic Inw of all civilized natious | Jay, tho city taxes are to be collected in the | quired to pay from this sum, in round num- which forbids tho idea of o permanent irre- | same manner and by tho same officers ag the | bers, $15,000,000 for interest on the us- detmable paper-currency, 5 Stato and county taxos. So long as our | tional dobt and for tho sinking fund,—$102,- ee = ‘Tho duty of the Government is emphasized | ‘frown Collectors aro retained as o part of | 000,000 for the formor and $33,000,000 for The weather wan at Washington predicts still further by the languago of the Bupreme | our system, they havo as much authority | the Intter, He thon has 325,000,000 in gold, that the people of thie Locality will hnve to | Court of the United Bintes, quoted by tho | over city taxes as over State and county | which he can oither hoard for purpoues of ro- zndnro more cloudiness to-day, whila tho | Secretary of the Treasury, whero the Court | taxou, “They have means for enforcing tho | sumption or eell for greenbacks with which to Greonbacky, at the New York Gold Ex- change yesterday, opened ot 87} and closed at 873. Wriutux B, Aston might bayo bean # very much, richer men if he hsd sold his houses and lots aia put ern ‘Then bo could ill remait BOYS > collection of the personn! tax for both city | defray curront expenses, Tho twoiltemsof in- | tropho of ruin and bankruptcy followed. | abort-namo Speakers, one (Poux) reached the Pan pats riehout belbg obliged +2 10) * temperatare will remain about stationary. P y y xpi P} i ames nenreneememnemene Apart from the quality af legst-tender impressed up- | and county; but not-of the real tax, tho pay- | terest and sinking fund by contract with the | Srnovanenc is in prison and his property has | Presidency; two (Crar and Brut) wore nomi- dollar, tn taxed, sud Tae Carciee renee you The sutut tent of the proxcenti oa. thenv by acti ot Col of which we can nowy T mont of which may be deferred and mando | public creditora must be paid in gold. ‘Tho | passod into the hands of the law to be dis. | ated for it; ono has ** great expectations.’ tm ie he sulutary effect of tho prosecution of | notin, thelr circulation as curreney depends upon | 1 y P 4 Bold pies aie erste mie bloke It Had aald aomoiulagwaat the Whisky Ring in Milwaukee is perceived | the estent to which they aro recslved in payment, tha | directly to tho County Treasurer, Secretary of tho Treasury would therefore | posed of for the benefit of creditor all over | qo should not oxpoot to find communism if i" ad sold his 3,000 houses in the fact. that internal revenuo collections | uantity im cirondation, and on the credit aivon to the —- === have to go into the market with his $160,- | Europe. in ita anoer, If Aston had sold bis lurking in sepeoch by Biuancx, but a recent There have beon mien like Srnovanzna in | uttoranco of his before tho Leichateg contains 5 this country, although oporating upon a less | markedly communistic suggestion. In discussing colossal aeale, using thousands whero ho has | the question of taxation, he recommends “a used millions, There aro thousands of little | #¢¥eFe ineome-tax ” on all persons who have ia~ as well ad Iargo men operating hero preciooly comos above $1,500 ayear, Thisisoneof tho si ; pointe on which communism sod socialism meet, as Stnovspeno did, who are destined to come } Jy js one of the proliminary ateps to tho realiza- to the samo ruin, When men or corporations | tion of both systems. * As long as the State en- branch out beyond the real working copacity-| dure,” weys the communist, ‘ita revenues of their capital, bankruptey must cons, and | should be axcluaively raivod by a eliding ins0me- whatuver of lability is incurred boy’ wt the | tax, which tho rich will psy and the poor will capacity of cnpital to meet it is in the nature not.” ‘The socialist wishos the State to endure of crime, Srovansaa isin jail Hussia | SAS%t%e comfort to the poor atthe expense ot Vader the severity of Russian laws ho may the rieb, All the money neoded for running the remain therealong time, His bankruptoy public workshops, tho pablis lodgiug-houses, involves a penal element and a criminal obli- | the public reatauranis, the publiq evorything- gation which it would not have in this coun- | ojae, is to be raised by ‘' sovere income-taz” on try. Our colossal speculators mony fail and | allincomos above those recoived by tho poor. fail and fail again; rony tumblo down | Bismanox, CLusener, and Kanu Manx aro an odd banks, warehouses, and other individn- | trio to be found in support of tho same scheme, ale in their fall; may cripple business | If despotiam, communism, and sociallam are to hongea and rnin widows end orphans, and unite against the classos to whom overgy or in- * . heritanco bas given » competence, the latter had spread Suancial dovastation in avery direo- | jeteor follow the Hon, Ropenr Lowz’s epigram tion, and no punishment is meted out to | on the English public schools and “oducate thom. It does not appesr in Stnovssrno’s | their rulers" forthwith. Education te apt to ense that there was any intent to awindle or | bring tho power of procuring oomfort and a defraud, or that there wero any really dis- | competence, and the book which contains tho honest transactions, excopt wo far as tho ag. | bost arguments against Proupuon's assertion aumption of colossal risks in speculation be. | thas ** property is robbery," iss bank-book. yond the real power of capital can be | 9, is riser of The Chicage Tribune? considered dishonest. Had there been such, ciaaga, Boo, Ke Wha te correct, you or Weperen? however, his punishment would have been [eee ene ely yet eoerue espe tee Dllio ‘upon distilled apirits have largely increased. Fe ee a oe eaparehes reaoinble “MORE” 000,000 of greenbacks, received from dutios, Honesty is the est policy, but it bas taken | "Tyr, on the other hand, i is oanally cleae that teas | _ 10 Popmlation of the country inerensed 40 | anil buy gold. Tle eannot soll bonds for tho soveral months to popularize that beautiful | notov ure ottigations of tho United Htoten, Thetr name | PeF cent in tho fourteen yoars between 1860 | purpose of mecting theso two items; he has sentiment in connection with the manufacture | !sperte obligation, Avery one of them oxpreaeca upon | ANd 1874. Tho ordinary expenses of tho { no authority to do 60, and the plan wonld of whisky. its faca nu cugagement of tho nation to pay the tesrer | Government increased 200 por cent in greon- | add $135,000,000 a yoar to tho publia debt. 2 — — a in se ae hin ea ep oeara backs in the same time, In 1860, the ori- | Ho cannot forco any one to buy his greon- Tho Agricultural Department report for Lye atts Statiacse caveat auunties in erght ‘ang | ™8tY expenses of the Government were | backs or to givo nny particular prica in gold November shows tunt the corn crop of 1875 | jin.nesa of auld and silver, aucheutieated ae auch by the | 305,010,158 in gold; In 1874 they were | for thom. All he can do is to sell them for was one-fourth larger than that of 1874, aud | stamp of the Goverament, 58178,018,083, exclusive of tho interest on | what they will bring, for what tho gold- ono of the heaviest ever grown in America. ‘This language, taken ‘in connection with | tho public debt, but inclusive of 30,000,000 | brokers aro willing to give in exchange for The samo is true of potatoes, in quality as | the pledgo of Congress gipon the originel | of ponsions, At this rate the taxea aro grow- | them. His 160,000,000 in greeabacks will woll as in quantity; whilo all tha tobacco. | isne of the legal-tender notes, leaves uo | ing much faster than tho population. btaz- | not bring, at the outside, more than $135,- growing States show a Inrge increase of | room for the * greenbackers" to claim that | tuvs paled beforo the impousibility of fnd- | 00,000 to 3140,000,000 in gold, so that tho product, With this oficial assurance of | there is any prospoct for eventually ahirking | ing food for the futwe hordes of mankind; | loss in revenue will bo fully $20,000,000 ia cheap whisky, plenty of tobacco, aud mealy | tho redemption of the ‘Treasury notes in the | tho American tnx-payer seos the problem of | gold. As our income and ontgo just potatoes, there onghit to be observed here- | recognized money of the world, Together | over-taxation quite outstripping that of over- | about balanco cach other,—thore will he a utter a marked falling off in the suicide sta. | they show that it was never intended that the | populetion, We have had o war tliat im- | deficienoy of 20,000,000 for tho flacal year, tigties, ‘Treasury notes shonld be a permanent issue, | poverished while it exhilerated us; then | —this will necessitate the lovy of now taxes 1 eet ears: : and that the Bupreme Court will adrait of no | we hed ao penio and collapse that | yielding to the amount of fally $25,000,000 sae : anes eset ee ae construction of thelr character which does has left us focling poor and almost despond- | per annum, to be abstracted trees the pock- United Miates Diatriet-Attomey for tho not includy their ultimate payment in specie, | ent. ASL great industries and trades cre de- | ots of the people, Aa your party put itself Northern Distrlet. of Winoie, We. Baas like eny other bond, note, or obligation. If pressed fur below their condition dysing the j on record, lost session, against the purely was strongly urged for the place, and it is the position needod auy strougtheping, itis | War, sud also the people aro forced to the | revenuo tax on tea and coffve, some other believed thnt the welecton is in every woy ex- supplied by a later net of Congrows,—Murch practica of unusual economy, A represonta- | commodities must bo burdened with a still callunt,: ‘The -nuw Ipinishont..willenat’ ba 18, f969,—wherein itwas declared ihat “tho tivo Governtuent should represent its citizena higher protective tax to till the holo in the anmpered by proviog gersoual frlondship for United Statos solomnly Pledges its faith to | in their pandmony on well as in their politics. | ‘Trensury left by yonr acheme of receiving parties whom he may boealled upon to proceed inake provision at the enelicat practicable ‘When tho people spend lesa, tho Government duties in currency, But our tariff is already againat with severity, and bis antocodonts au period for the roitomption of the United must spend lesv, ‘Tho estimatca of oxpendi- | so high, as tho mensage of the Prosident and s lawyor of ability and a mawof intogrity States notes fn coin.” ‘Uhia act merely in- ture for the ensuing fiscal year, that of | the report of the Secretary of the ‘Treasury warmint the expectation thot tho war against terpreted und supplemented tha Previous 1877, submitted to Congress by Secretary | show, that it is well-nigh prohibitory, and the " crooked " dik in Chicayo will be pushed pledges of Congress and tho verdict of the | Barstow, are not framed, wo are sorry to be | has decreased the revenue $0,000,000 during and lota to his tenants, there wonld bo 3,000 more freo-holders and one less grasping !and-mowop- -olist in New York City, and tho Govornment would have the ute of the monoy reprosonted by the overgrown fortune of the decansed misor. ja eee a OE A Rossian papor announces that Doliet ia tho approaching end of the world has aeized on the Cossacka of the Don. Many, especially aged poople, are giving up worldly afsin, wesriog = shroud, and ordering their coftios, On every road are seen men ropairing to Mos cow to be consecrated priests, in order that the smallest village may have its own pricat and church, The authorities are passive, hoping that the movement will die out of its own aa cord It has originated with the Disscuters. It secms that ax-Senator Doourrize’s scheme for ‘*housdhold suffrage,” by which overy sat- ried man is to have two votes, haa hoon suggest ed to, and pejected by, the Fronch Ascembly. ‘The Jending opponent of tho acheme killed it with the question: “Can it be supposed that the priest shall bave only ona voto aud that the sexton, if* married, ahall have tro 2” ——_———-——— PERSONAL. Garibatdi’s grandson is named Roms. ay all roadie ba open to him, except the road to ! George Alfred Townsend won $2,000 on the election of Speaker Kerr. Ho la temporarily whiting: on monogram paper and drinking green i” * “ sith vlgor under the capable hod officieat Supreme Court thereon, compelled to stato, on any such principle; on | the past year, Any further increase of | proportionately more severe, In this coun- Pe ailion'of maiuion," and fife ‘would tw, encase vil 1c ‘Twain, having been invited to contribute lirection of Bir, Banos. Thero is but ove way in which the United | the contrary, thoy seem to rest upon] “protection” rates would, therefore, still try, however, it is doubtful whethor even a Pay howeard willtioae es ae woe ad arias 06 ae dat somethdng to an Infant Asylum, offered ¢0 be one of 1,000 citizens ‘who shall agroo to cote tribute two or more of their children to this ¢- terpri se.” Mr. Longtellow's new poom, ‘The Masque of Pandore,” ia highly praived by the English crit> tes, Even thosg who etadiously avoid beiug kind, when it iv possible to do #o, offer only Une quaiiied praise of this volume, Moncure D. Conway writes in enthusisstie Sexmn of Walt Whitman to the London -tcademy, "Che old post is described as “A man cast in A Jargo mold both ae to heart and bralu,” #4 ** the greaceat democrat thet lives.” Mr, Barnum, Congressmen for Connecticut, vouchma for Mr, Townsend, the now Loni sional Chaplain, in the Democratic eancts 2 forgot to mantion, however, that the candi wasa son of the old original ‘Townsend's Saree parilts. 7 Gen. Fremont has bought » hous iv Now Yorks and will reside there permanently. i delicate health still percludes the possibility » is early return to Paria} and it is sold be ne ; for woveral youre Loatall iuterest in Memphis El Paso. . Tho Utlos Observer reiterates the statement ‘that Vice-Preaident Wilson waa boro in ® Evpey comp. The Cotbaitha, it says, belonged tu oe of tiwo roving tribes of yagabonds who ws their headquarters in Strafford County, yew Harnpshire, ‘iwead's escape wae strauged, perbaps ms Ueiously, to take place on the day svt for the a States Goverument can houornbly avoid tho | what might bo called a Malthusian theory | farther diminish our receipts, Your plan AUnnesota is to huve ao State Inebriate | mediate payment of its Troasury noted,— | of finaucu—that taxetion must incrvase | involves, then, first largely cutting down Aoylum, and tho liquor-sellera will have to | Wich on their fuce eull for payioont on do- faster than the means of paying taxes. | onr national income, and then trying to ‘out tha Dill, the Gaprems Court having qwand,—and that is by funding them au pro- The appropriations obtained from tho last | restoro it by levying taxes that will out recently sustained tho constitutionality of the vided in the original act by which their isoue Congress reached i the héavy total of €203,-/1t down atill farther! Tho plan also ‘nw imposing atax for this purpose, Cov, | ¥% authorized. ‘This ia the nuturo of the | 160,197.57, including the intorest on the pub- | involves Secretary Bausrtow's going into the Davis yesterday appointed a Board of Dire. | Prepesition made by tho Secretary of the | licdebt. But this year the Sccrotary wants | market to buy vast quantities of gold and tors of the Aaylum, which is to bo located at ‘Treasury and indoraod by the President, | ta inerease the mule-pack. He asks # Domo- } running the chance of being prevented, by Rocheater, and work wiil commonce early in | P*oviding for tho conversion of the green. | eretio House of Representatives to vote tho | corners and speculative schemes, from get- the spring, ‘The Directory consista of the Ducks into a United States goldt-bearing bond Government 4 totul of $314,612,608.48, This | ting tho gold which now garely comes to him, Hfon, J. A. Leonann, editor of the Rochester | &t low rate of interest and running fora | isan increase of $21,446,431 over last year. | and which is absolutely nocesséry for the Post, and formerly State Senator - from long term of years. The moment this privi- Hero are sonic of the items of increase: ‘Cho | honevt and honorablo discharge of our most Dimited County; W. I. Wruso, St. Paul ; tegu is accorded to holders of greenbacks, at | tilltary cxtablishment wants 31,400,000 moro | golemn national obligations, 3, D. Cnasbart, Owatouna ; 0, A, WuxaTon, their own option, the United States will have for traveling and general expenses, At a How js your plan to do what you claim for Northticld, and J. Q. A. Fasten, Spring Val. redeoined the pledge it nado when the greon- tine when civilians are, perforce, staying at | it in the way of incroasing our prosperity, vy. A fund of £10,000 in alrendy on hand, bocks were first igmued. It ia a fair critioian home and spending less than ever for} hasteuing tho resumption of specie-pay- und $30,000 more will probably have been | tha lituitation of thoso redemption bonds | their owa traveling, thoy do not feel | raunts, and appreciating tho grcenbacka? suntributed by the liquor-cellora by the ut of | © $2:00,000 a mouth that tho ue. | in the humor to contributo extra taxes | Wo are ylad to note, by the way, that you luly. tional faith is not fully maintained | to send army ofllcora on oxtra journeys | have changed your viowa and now believe SS by. such plav, bot that the hold. | in time of peace. Tho Quartermnster’s De- | in resumption, althongh so {guorant of the ‘Tho Chicago produce markets were irregu- | ora of greenbscks should be entitled | partment wants about half a million dollars | way to bring it about, And now, Senator lar yeoterday, Moss pork was in fair de. | to fpnd them into bond whenever and to | more, aud the samo incrensa is asked for | Boay, will you pleaso rigo and explain? mand and a shade finner, closing at $19.15 | whatever extent thoy way sco Ht, Had thig| transportation. ‘Lhe agitation for cheap — — 19.174 cash, and 919.40 seller February. | provision of the original act never buen re- | funerals has not yet reached the army; an{ The proceedings of the military Court of Lard was lews active and easier, closing at | pealed, greenbackw would alwnyy have had | incroase of GO per cent fe nuked in the ap- Inquiry in the caso of Col. Bancocx have F1z,80 per 100 tba cash and $12.474@12.50 | the samo value, and we would not now be | propriation for the national cemeteries. | come to sudden halt, pending the result of {or February. Meats wore less aotiveand firm, | suffering the ills of an frredecinable currency, ‘fhe estimate for ordnance ig more than | the legal inveatigation of his cage at St. at7jo for shoulders, 10}o for short ribs, and | ‘Tho restoration of the right of funding, bo. | double the sum granted last year, and that} Louis, At the opening of the Court yester- 10}o for short clears, all boxed, Highwines | sides being a ulmple act of good faith, will | for the armamont of fortifications leaps from day morning, Gon, Haxcocx asked the con- ware quiet and stendy, at $1.21 per|do more than anything excupt the actual | $75,000 to $1,200,000. currence of tho other members of the Court gallon, Flour. was dull and unchanged. | paymont in gold could do to give tho green. | The total incresse asked for by the War | in a postponement of the inquiry, inasmuch Wheat was logs active and declined 140, clos- | backs steady and uniform value, approx. | Department, ina time of profound and un- | ou the formal indictment of Col, Bascock at fraudulent bankruptoy or dishonest method ‘That our correspondent has conauited Wxnsrrn of conducting business can be punished ; if | to little purpose ls shown by tho construction of they are, then the punishment {a nominal ag | bis seutonces. We havo also to expose his inao- in the case of ‘Iwxrp, ond in due time tho tied ides Libhasote deel grinned Haeatee ae criminal feelowette SU eeu a ele that “a billion fs 4 million of million"; he ia ider the offet aiel: tk morely says It inno ‘according to the English consider the oflote monarchies of Europe | method.” For further informadon be refere in the way of punishing speculators and | to nis defioition of the word “numeration,” in sharpers, which bo romarke that with the French and ne a othor Continental nations, and alsa in the Unued Mesers, Kroyze and Reno hava, it appears, | states, the billion is a thoawand million, It te med the oity for $550, the amount of their | true that all definitions of the word “billion” sntary as Polico Commissioners from June 1 | are more or less arbitrary, and none of thetn ex- to Aug, 6, the day upon which thoy wero re. | Prossen tte fol! etymological significance, But Neved from office, and Manx Surnrpan lias | When the word {a employed in conuection with algo put in his claim for 1,550, the amount | te Sua wish & reprasonls te ee meena he would have received from June 1 to the prosent time, if he had not beon required to i ai bo isa nse ate fettolony: aod ay step down and out, In all these claims there js a large dogree of audacity, unless the aa i occas gurensos claimants can show that the present charter | "88 formally no! ney for a was illegally adopted. If it was adopted | third term by Stee gt init aaaesrcrrean lawfully, they have no more claim than any any Dees + the compliment fie ter, inasmuch as it cam other citizen to go aud demand money from ane was destroying the sSeuoares ings ihe the city, Befora they can obtain judgment, | prosperity of all New England; and Jzyrensoy, they must show that tho charter was adopted | more than any other man, wa responsible for fraudulently and by ballot-box atuffing, ag | the plan that injured the country as much, rela- wos most undoubtedly the case, If they | tively, then aa the bigh tari does now. When can establish that fact, the amount of their | this particular bit of blstory is recalled, another combined claima will not be looked upon as should be also saked out of oblivion, It is trae avery oxpensive price, But meanwhile, by art i bhai pneerettts dor this term; what authority can the Common Council | (* Promptly d eno. ination. anomal dinnor of the New York Press fea aug at 9830 onuh, and 98j0 for January, Corn | imating a par value in gold; and, if tho | threatened peace, is $5,000,000. Tha total | gt. Loula would secure hima full and fair | make appropriations for service not lawfully Soe as Pee vill eh ceceen pits ae of bus was moro active and stronger, closing at 4830 | quality of legal-tender is added to these re. | catimates foot up 883,607,178: the appropri. spoiled at least ove good dinner y trial before an impartial jury, and therefore the peceasity of convening # military court performed if the present charter was law. Somebody {4 about to undertake the arduous fully adopted ? taak of whitewashing Suxurxy’s moral charaoc- rey Lat ‘This, if successfully done, will surpasa any 2 ‘work of the bind at Waabington, and #0 dipprove ‘Wo print elsowhore this morning a review | bios, “Vou Hotar’s aasartion, in his 'Conatitu- of our pregent jury law which has been pre- | tiongs History of the United States," that “in pared by an able jurist, and which contalng | « ypiswaening’ trudeudies and decorative color. some suggestions of value, He is of opinion | ng, Americans are unaurpassed.” Popere are to that the law relative te the icapansling of | be pnbliahed which, {31s Claims d, will show that for Decamber and 45f0 for January. Oata | demption bonds as to payment of old debts, | stiona last year were $28,554,087, and in were quiet andeasier, closing at 80jo cash | there will be no sacrifice of the interests of | 1860 wore $16,472,202, tor the determination of bis guilt or inno. and 80}0 for January, Ryo was steady at | what is called the “debtor claus "in order to | ‘The naval establishment wants more; for | conce no longer exiuted, Following upon UsGeeje, Barley was quiet and unchanged, | regain the position which should never have | pay, &1,330,000 more; private pay-rolls must | this suggestion, the Court received a lotter cleaing at 8730 for Decemberand B0}o fordan- | bcen sbandoned, One thing js certain: The | decreasa the more, if this is granted; for | from Col. Bancocs himself, requesting an ad- onev, Hoge wore fairly active and 150 lower, | acta gf Congress and ths Supreme Court's | arming vessels, $610,000 more; for equipping } journment of a few daya to give him time to Qeakore grades aciling as G0.85@7.10, The | construction thenof require either the pay- | veassls, @250,000 mores for repairs, @200,000 | prepare to anewer the indlotmant found sonst unrelenting persecutors. » ‘The New York Nation ssyss “Tbe quality of the sympathy or sdmtration for tho a Régar A. Poo, which bas just expended itv upon a monument in Baltimore, ould have boot perhaps more dily abown by providlag puitabis food, clet ‘and abome for bis ooly slates Rosalie, whe has jot disd ia & ebarity-bouss,